If we leave it solely to the universe then we are lost. You are in control of the things within reach. The road to nowhere leads to me simply tells you that your life depends on you. Could it be a dream? And if so, whose dream? It is what I know and what I experience and not a theory. A life predicted, decisions I make based on probability and desires, because, the road to nowhere leads to me. The strongest will survive, but my mind tells me, what is the point of it all? Why should I care about things that I don’t know, yet all I have been through is a cycle. Religion says, do good, be good and when your physical body gives in there’s a better place for your soul.
“The wreckage of our past that keeps haunting us, just won’t leave us alone.” It is easy for us to tell ourselves that we should let the past go and live for the moment, but can you tell that to a person that is struggling with addiction? Gambling, drugs, sex, a bad relationship? Can you tell someone who has always been at the losing end of life that tomorrow is going to be a good day? It is easy to have hope and spread it to others, yet we don’t know what tomorrow holds for us. The past that we are not proud of and the choices that we made which now feel like a mistake. The ugliness of ourselves that we love to hide. However, the good thing is that there’s a lesson to be learned from it. I will still make decisions today that I won’t be proud of in future. But now that I am aware of what I didn’t like about my past, can I do my present differently? Perhaps, but still I have learned a lot from my mistakes and also at the time that was what felt like the best thing to do, so the road to nowhere leads to me. Am I proud of it? Well, some yes and some, not really. Are we able to break the wheel of misfortune? Are we able to milk out all the good parts of our lives and stretch them out as far as possible? In the opening line of the lyrics to this song, “I was looking back on my life and all the things I have done to me,” I can’t help but think that all I have had to go through have been a fault of my own. Some parts of our lives seem like a cycle that is repeated over and over. These words cut deep through my heart like a sword.
The lyrics to this song are a mirror to what goes through our minds when contemplating the purpose of our lives, the reasons of our being and if whatever we do with our lives is worth anything. Horns up metal lovers for this time we are delving into the lyrics of Ozzy Osbourne in trying to understand ourselves, our lives, our regrets, what we have been through and where we think we are headed, for what is metal without Ozzy? Road to nowhere by Ozzy Osbourne is a song that opens my eyes and mind to understand the pain, the struggles and the troubles that have been part of life.