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• Lead singer Jon Oliva explained in Holland edition Aardschok/Metal Hammer February 1990: "Three songs on Gutter Ballet: 'Mentally Yours', 'Summer's Rain' and 'Thorazine Shuffle' together form a trilogy. It is true that the story that runs through these three songs is fictive again, but this time it is based upon facts. It's a pity, but in America these things occur too often. It's a story about Timmy. In 'Mentally Yours' he's still a little boy. His father left and his mother and him drive each other completely insane because they can't live with each other. Timmy has a difficult childhood and eventually he runs away from home with his girlfriend. But he's so twisted, that he often beats her up. He torches the cat... to sum it up he's totally insane, sadistic and sick." >>

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