This song reminds me of my parents and my childhood. We would listen to Pat Benatar ALL THE TIME! I thought I was grown being able to say "HELL". LOL! I LOVE PAT!!! Shes the reason I LOVE ROCK MUSIC!! She gave little girls and women HOPE! LOVE HER!
my mom hates her. especially this song.but that's because my mom abused me and my siblings growing up.plus she is a religious nut on top of being unstable.i'm 41 and my mom still tries at times to abuse me.glad we don't live in the state though.plus glad i did not live with her when i was a teenager.but my father was abusive to.now my older sister is a lot like my parents and she abuses her 2 kids.dcfs has been called on my sister several times but she got to keep her kids.
@shan12stones FUCK YOU... I LOVE THIS SONG AND PAT BENATAR. SHE WROTE THIS SONG BECAUSE SHE READ AND ARTICEL ABOUT CHILDREN BEING ABUSED.. LEAN YOUR ROCK HISTORY AND PAT BENATARS BIO..
@SexySandy32388 excuse me learn how to read.i did not say anything bad about this video dumb ass and i know what's it about.plus pat mentioned it on behind the music.reread my original post
2011 and I’m still hitting replay on this song! I LOVE PAT BENETAR! DAMN she can sing her booty off! Her strength, beauty, and kick ass attitude has been such a huge inspiration to me being a female singer! She has paved the way for female rock singer! I am in a pop/punk band called HEY YOU. If any of you PB fans would like to give it a try, we just put up a new video, and would love it if you would let us know what you think.... = )
@smokesignal216 I question whether I should even dignify that with an answer. Have you read ANY of the posts besides mine.
This song is about child abuse and the hell they go through when they are being abused.
When I first heard the song, I think I was 11. And, I did not recognize that (I did not know much about child abuse, Thank God). I thought it she was saying children belong in Hell (Hell EXISTS for children).
It was when I heard it again at 19 that I realized this.
@itsinthenet I did not hear the lyrics. what made you believe it ways something other than what it sounds like? ok I probably talking to people who can't think straight & practice satanism as benatar. 200 thousand children each year disappear in USA alone while vatican, entertainment industry & US capital is filled with pedos & child murdering psychopaths going to war to kill innocent children & enslave the rest. She should be singing hell is for pedos.
@smokesignal216 Point taken and there was a better way to state the point that would not cause the confusion (make it sound like children belong in hell).
But, you really need to be careful about taking things out of context. I think it was excusable for me as I was only 11 at the time. But, since I'm older (I can only assume that you are an adult as well), it is not. You need to really listen to the lyrics here.
i got this album for my birthday when i was 10 and my mom threw it out because of the title of this song. (she also made me throw out my breakfast in america album because of a lyric from goodbye stranger).
I think it's amazing that there is a side of Pat Benatar that few other people know:
the classical music student who decline admission to Juilliard to go to a top school for health (Stony Brook), the woman who cared deeply about child abuse, etc.
@PolitcalIslam so you see any difference since then? the situation is worse. with the forced drugging of children, the killing of children in wars & starvations. the fact that the USA runs the world's child sex trade industry & violates human right laws, & abuses families. that every year in USA alone more than 200,000 children disappear, victims of the satanists that run this country & the secret societies. and this sick woman singing hell is for children as satanists control media & music.
@smokesignal216 Beg to differ... several countries (third world) are far worse then the US is. Some still have legal slavery in parts of their nations. We may have a problem but those are reported, in those third world nations they go unreported...so there is no telling the number. We came across mass graves in Iraq. I dont recall any mass graves here.
@Bear44mc USA television reported that the world's child sex trade is run from USA. Most child disappearances are not reported. The numbers are about 250,000 children per year disappear & never seen again every single year in USA alone. The situation never improved & got worse. USA government inaction run by pedos. Accept facts & then act to stop this evil. I do not know who is worse the crazy psychopaths who do all the crimes or the supposedly sane public who allow it to happen. MayaBell. com
@smokesignal216 Not saying the US doesnt have an issue here.. just saying that the world is a far worse place then here in the US. Stop and consider the scope of this, the size of the nation, number of people in it. You really should reread my post and not attack those who post other facts. (That this world has worse places then here). Misdirected anger will accomplish nothing. I find more "pedos" in schools and churches then in the Government (via the news).
@Bear44mc USA runs the world's child sex trade. USA is run by Satanists & more than 200,000 children every year disappear in the USA alone; victims of child sacrifice & pedos & shipped to other parts of the world to be used as sex slaves. USA also is a war profiteering, weapons trading drug trading criminals, but that does not bother me as much as their jailing innocent people & selling, using & abusing children & families. You know nothing about what is happening.
@smokesignal216 How many kids leave home of their own accord, we dont know. How many of them think they can make it on their own, when they cant, end up in bad places? I am not denying anything you posted- just saying I have seen first hand mass graves of women and children- all overseas, none here. Just how am I/ are we suppose to stop this crime... its often in private places where I am not, we are not. Insulting the sanity of peeps you dont know is wrong. None of my freinds would allow this
@Bear44mc they do not leave because they want to. they are abused and the government is also abusing them and not protecting them. as this movie shows, nobody believed those kids or helped them to get good evidence. also in this messed up system, both kids & adults are put in jail based on false testimony of people who are neither sane nor trustable. the government pays well for false witnesses & sends people to death based on it. also professional murderers well paid by the fascist government.
@Bear44mc the government is run by pedos & child murderers. while USA sanctioned Iran for daring to have free trade of oil instead of the monopolies of USA backed oil cartels who pay no taxes, get USA subsidies & use our army & our $ to fight their oil monopoly claims while they murder & sodomize children around the world & in USA. Oriental nations had child prost for years yet USA had no problem trading with those countries. You won't see the mass graves in USA, our government controls media.
I really think this song was meant for children that are abused. I have been listening this song over 30 years, and it is a great song! Enjoy and take it for what it is.
Sounds like the song was written by Iron Maiden, or something like that. I could mosh to this tune. But it's way beautiful as well, with a tragic subject.
@sinbysin666 BOC has a song about psychical abuse called Joan Crawford..( which I can't bear to listen to these days...It hits too close tohome forme... the other forms abuse were dealt to me by my parents Psychological& Emotional abuse
When I was in a youth crisis shelter with this kid who had been horribly abused and committed suicide because of his abuse, I dedicated this song to him. His abusers should go to the lowest hell there is.
Why is she singing elephant children? Is this song about the poor circus elephant babies that get taken away from their mothers when they are just babies. Sad.
@guyNbluejeans It's about child abuse. Back in the '70's it was a taboo subject to even talk about. She was trying to bring the reality of it to the general public's attention.
@guyNbluejeans Ummm noooo... She wrote the song because she was moved by the articles she read about children being abused. She donates all the money generated by this song in royalties to organizations that help abused kids.
@guyNbluejeans Oh, no! Not at all! She knows that thousands of kids get abused every day, and this song is trying to tell people about it, and make it stop and make a difference. :)
2011 and I’m still hitting replay on this song! I LOVE PAT BENETAR! DAMN she can sing her booty off! Her strength, beauty, and kick ass attitude has been such a huge inspiration to me being a female singer! She has paved the way for female rock singer! I am in a pop/punk band called HEY YOU. If any of you PB fans would like to give it a try, we just put up a new video, and would love it if you would let us know what you think.... = )
Pat and Spider still together, hope you caught them on Oprah, she asked how they stay a couple so long... "She's always right", was Neil's response. He's playing his BCRich Eagle here
@MiamiCat23 Saw her tonight here in Cincinnati...she told the story about how this song came about...back in 1980, the NY Times ran a big article about Child Abuse, which wasn't talked about at all...physical and sexual abuse basically...she said it angered and saddened her and she had to write what thoughts it brought up...Neil (her guitarist and soon to be husband...now of 30 yrs btw...wrote the music to it...she will play this song at every concert/show she does until every child is safe.
This song and music video should be sent to CPS across America and to ChildhelpUSA. To date, I haven't met an adult who was an abused child that both places didn't failed to protect. Sadly, the American Family Courts are still messed up. There are countless innocent children who are not being protected. Two excellent cases for examples were the Elizabeth Mogan case and recently the Anthony case. At least,Elena Mitrano (Hillary Morgan) These are reasons why I advocate for the voiceless.
Have to agree, this transfers across to animal abuse as well as child abuse. WTG Pat. This song never dates, still love it, still gives me chills when I hear it.
Hell should NEVER be for children. It is so sad to see children who have to endure abuse....as a father, I cannot imagine making my children suffer like that in any way!
2011 and I’m still hitting replay on this song! I LOVE PAT BENETAR! DAMN she can sing her booty off! Her strength, beauty, and kick ass attitude has been such a huge inspiration to me being a female singer! She has paved the way for female rock singer! I am in a pop/punk band called HEY YOU. If any of you PB fans would like to give it a try, we just put up a new video, and would love it if you would let us know what you think.... = )
i worked for 34 years in law enforcement and it was my pleasure to tell the prisoners that there new jail mate was a child abuser.Those guys and women had a way to deal with them.
child abusers should be publicaly tortured and humiliated.that would be a step in the right dirrection.the laws need to be changed for scum who strike or sexually abuse children.children are the most precious gift.hell awaits those who abuse children
@Rockette2RockerChic i disagree, her elfin-like features were made for the pixie cut. long hair would wash her face out and make it stand out less. also it'd look less badass.
I love this song, due to the fact that I was also an abused child. NEVER hit anyone, rather it be a child or not. Violence has never solved anything. and it is really unfortunate that this cruel world has come to that.
@Lindawatcher You're just another money-hungry pussy ass bitch who can't stand up for themselves. When a cop starts hitting you, that's your cue top start smashing the top of their skull in with whatever's laying around.
@123456789littledog - Ever heard the Benatar' album version? C of B suck on this song. Listen to Benatar's live version 30 years after the album release. Pat Benatar Live 7-09-10. Even after 30 years live, the current version rocks over this version and C of B!!!!!!!
WHEN U LISTEN TO THESE KINDS OF MUSIC,MAKE SURE NOBODY MAKES U ANGRY THEN U DO STUPID STUFF,CAUSE U CANT HANDLE SONGS LIKE THIS THAT MOTIVATE TO PAYBACK THOSE WHO HURT U,U NEED SELF CONTROL,CAUSE ITS NOT PATS FAULT,ITS YUR FAULT FOR DRINKING,TAKING IT LITERALY TO YUR MIND,ENJOY THE MUSIC,HAVE FUN HELL IS FOR CHIRLDREN WHO END UP IN PRISON,JAIL,ON THE STREETS,HOMELESS WHO ARE LOST,ABUSED,ABONDONED,ITS OK TO HEAR THIS SONG OF HELL,AS LONG AS U KNOW UR NOT THE ONE WHOS GONNA PAY,THEN ITS SCARY.
im 19 and i grew up listening to Pat Benatar. I got to see her live a couple years ago and she sang this. i had never heard it before then. She sang it with so much emotion and powerful energy. It felt like you got shot with a high volt of electricity. It was amazing. I got to shake her hand that night. :) she rocks my socks off.
This song to raise the awareness of child abuse and child labour. It was first sang in 1979 when it was " the international year of the child" and no she is NOT a Canadian, she is an American.
...and children will go to hell if when they grow up, they will produce fake-autotune voices in songs.... remember the times with pat benatar, were u had 2 have talent to be famous, and not 12 million dollars?!
Our childhood was a living hell, with a drunken father coming home and smashing up the house, and whoever got in his way as he attacked my mother! Thank God, the abuse finally stopped after he left for 3.5 years! Love, BobbyK
Yeah Nick Geraldo, her HUSBAND of many decades....he rocks, also classically trained! The quote "Hell is for Children" however is taken out of context here. But still brilliant song.
love this song .. i remember when it came out hearing the idiots who never "listened " to the words , say Pat was glorifying child abuse...stupid judgmental people. Who, could ever derive to that conclusion...they made those remarks based on what others were saying and never listened for themselves.
it is this very song that reminds me to listen first when it comes to music, Before what others may think or say.
May not like Pat Benatar over all. but I do like this song. She's a good singer. her music isn't my style. but I do love the sentiments she's expressed here.
She is not one of the best, she is the best! To be able to wail like that and hold a note is absolutely remarkable. So glad she turned to Rock 'n' Roll. A close second is Nancy Wilson from Heart. 40 people need to take their heads out of their asses.
She is not one of the best, she is the best! To be able to wail like that and hold a note is absolutely remarkable. So glad she turned to Rock 'n' Roll. A close second is Nancy Wilson from Heart.
This is one of the songs that I will turn the volume up on in my SUV--if I'm alone. I survived child abuse and domestic violence. My two oldest children were abused by their 'father' who abused them when he couldn't get to me after we split up. Sometimes, I cry when I hear this; but, I always replay it (I have it on a CD).
@rebelrose1863 I worked in law enforcement for 15 years...I lost my job smashing a child/domestic abuser in the head with my baton. He'd been through the system so many times he 'assured' me he'd walk on this charge as well. He ended up with a skull fracture and 90 days in jail after a six month stay in the hospital. I lost my job, and ended up paying all his medical expenses and litigation against me is still pending. And....I would do it again. God bless you....
@Tim22410 : I am sorry that you lost your job & are in litigation because of this creep. I've been married almost 19 years to a now retired deputy sheriff (he retired in 2007 after 28 1/2 yrs with the same dept). A lot of people would not believe the stories he has told me. My abuse was worse than some; not as bad as some. My husband saw me typing this and asked me to let you know that he still has flashbacks/nightmares/PTSD due to some of the child abuse that he responded to.
@Tim22410, right on, brother!!! If it ever happens again, hit the bastard until that skull fracture looks like the Grand Canyon. Then he can't get up to falsely testify, you keep your job and there are no medical expenses to worry about.
@Tim22410 sorry to hear what happened bro:( but your not alone in that i would lose my job for the same reason so I do hope one day the good karmic reaons for your act will be paid with good fortune for you-Salute
@Tim22410 This is the man you are paying dearly for hurting! I will continue to follow you to the ends of the Eart!... To sue you so many times over that you will NEVER have two pennies to rub together! You will be too poor to pay attention when we get done financially raping your ass! Get used to beans and rice my friend... because financially= = you are toast!
@Lindawatcher Are you serious? You're hurting? Lol...wah wah wah. If you are the trash that Tim threw out then you only got half of what you deserved. But that's ok because you will get yours in the end (literally and figuratively I'm sure.) Better start looking over your shoulder, you can't sue everyone and you can't take it to hell with you. By the way, how did it feel to be on the receiving end, you twisted p.o.s?
@Moneypenny9971 GOTCHA! lol lol Love pissing people off and playing devil's advocate! Pepole are sooooo gullable! lol lol Well, gotta go... got to go BEAT my kids! lolllolololool
@Lindawatcher You got that complete warped. The verse is about children wanting to come up to Jesus and his Apostles were telling the kids to go away and leave him alone. He said back to them "Suffer not the little children and forbid them not to come unto me: for to such belongeth the kingdom of heaven." He's telling them not to hassle the kids and let them come to him. How people can twist that to justify child abuse is mind-boggling and evil.
@Tim22410 , I think they should be beaten and if they die in the process oh well, no children would have to worry about being abused by that piece of trash again. I'm sorry to hear about your circumstance, I would have done the same thing.
@Tim22410 two wrongs don't make a right. Abuse is abuse, whether its an adult abusing a child or a dirty pig abusing his authority and smashing somebodys head in .
@Tim22410 Good for you but if it was me? I would have shot him instead to make sure he never hurt a kid again. (Thats why I never got into the police force, I don't trust myself w/a gun. I forever be in paperwork!) :P
@Tim22410 I hope and pray something better is ahead for you at the end of the tunnel...don't you just love how the law protects those animals and people that would make great foster parents get caught up in red tape??
It hurts to listen to, because it strikes so close to home. But you have a right to be angry and sad. Pat Benetar addresses a very painful and ugly issue; that of child abuse. I stumbled on this site by accident, but I was very glad to do so. I stopped being a victim when I faced down my father at age 15 with an axe in my hands. But the pain is still there. It's hard to get over being hurt where you were supposed to have been nurtured. I tried to say more, but characters ran out.
@shannon1234550 There are times that I listen to it over and over, like I'm doing now. My husband's home now, so I shouldn't keep doing it--the song really bothers him because he had to deal with this issue as a deputy sheriff.
I'm dealing with PTSD again because of an incident in January--and the PTSD goes back to when I was 3 and saw my mom catch on fire; child abuse; domestic violence.......Survived it, but in a way I didn't.
This song reminds me of my parents and my childhood. We would listen to Pat Benatar ALL THE TIME! I thought I was grown being able to say "HELL". LOL! I LOVE PAT!!! Shes the reason I LOVE ROCK MUSIC!! She gave little girls and women HOPE! LOVE HER!
22crome 1 week ago
my mom hates her. especially this song.but that's because my mom abused me and my siblings growing up.plus she is a religious nut on top of being unstable.i'm 41 and my mom still tries at times to abuse me.glad we don't live in the state though.plus glad i did not live with her when i was a teenager.but my father was abusive to.now my older sister is a lot like my parents and she abuses her 2 kids.dcfs has been called on my sister several times but she got to keep her kids.
shan12stones 3 weeks ago
@shan12stones FUCK YOU... I LOVE THIS SONG AND PAT BENATAR. SHE WROTE THIS SONG BECAUSE SHE READ AND ARTICEL ABOUT CHILDREN BEING ABUSED.. LEAN YOUR ROCK HISTORY AND PAT BENATARS BIO..
SexySandy32388 3 weeks ago
@SexySandy32388 excuse me learn how to read.i did not say anything bad about this video dumb ass and i know what's it about.plus pat mentioned it on behind the music.reread my original post
shan12stones 2 weeks ago
And defenitly check out the last 50 seconds of the song..its my favorite...just click on my name
bobbconner1 1 month ago
I have an unbeleveable video of this..please post i sent it to you...everyoneelse check it out its HD stereo and FRONT ROW
bobbconner1 1 month ago
"Love is a battlefield" cover by CBE recording artist Sabrina Antoinette.
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2011 and I’m still hitting replay on this song! I LOVE PAT BENETAR! DAMN she can sing her booty off! Her strength, beauty, and kick ass attitude has been such a huge inspiration to me being a female singer! She has paved the way for female rock singer! I am in a pop/punk band called HEY YOU. If any of you PB fans would like to give it a try, we just put up a new video, and would love it if you would let us know what you think.... = )
Search: hey you band taking over
heyyouband 1 month ago
if you like this song i have the best live version on youtube check out my channel..its HD stereo FRONT ROW!!!
bobbconner1 1 month ago
I used to have a big problem with this song until I really listened to it and figured out what it was about.
itsinthenet 1 month ago
@itsinthenet kindly share your reasoning of this song. what is it about? tell us.
smokesignal216 1 month ago
@smokesignal216 I question whether I should even dignify that with an answer. Have you read ANY of the posts besides mine.
This song is about child abuse and the hell they go through when they are being abused.
When I first heard the song, I think I was 11. And, I did not recognize that (I did not know much about child abuse, Thank God). I thought it she was saying children belong in Hell (Hell EXISTS for children).
It was when I heard it again at 19 that I realized this.
itsinthenet 1 month ago
@itsinthenet I did not hear the lyrics. what made you believe it ways something other than what it sounds like? ok I probably talking to people who can't think straight & practice satanism as benatar. 200 thousand children each year disappear in USA alone while vatican, entertainment industry & US capital is filled with pedos & child murdering psychopaths going to war to kill innocent children & enslave the rest. She should be singing hell is for pedos.
smokesignal216 1 month ago
@smokesignal216 Point taken and there was a better way to state the point that would not cause the confusion (make it sound like children belong in hell).
But, you really need to be careful about taking things out of context. I think it was excusable for me as I was only 11 at the time. But, since I'm older (I can only assume that you are an adult as well), it is not. You need to really listen to the lyrics here.
This is the last I am going to say about this.
itsinthenet 1 month ago
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moparjg 2 months ago
i got this album for my birthday when i was 10 and my mom threw it out because of the title of this song. (she also made me throw out my breakfast in america album because of a lyric from goodbye stranger).
anahata58 2 months ago
I think it's amazing that there is a side of Pat Benatar that few other people know:
the classical music student who decline admission to Juilliard to go to a top school for health (Stony Brook), the woman who cared deeply about child abuse, etc.
PolitcalIslam 2 months ago
@PolitcalIslam so you see any difference since then? the situation is worse. with the forced drugging of children, the killing of children in wars & starvations. the fact that the USA runs the world's child sex trade industry & violates human right laws, & abuses families. that every year in USA alone more than 200,000 children disappear, victims of the satanists that run this country & the secret societies. and this sick woman singing hell is for children as satanists control media & music.
smokesignal216 1 month ago
@smokesignal216 You's trolling....
PolitcalIslam 1 month ago
@smokesignal216 Beg to differ... several countries (third world) are far worse then the US is. Some still have legal slavery in parts of their nations. We may have a problem but those are reported, in those third world nations they go unreported...so there is no telling the number. We came across mass graves in Iraq. I dont recall any mass graves here.
Bear44mc 1 month ago
@Bear44mc USA television reported that the world's child sex trade is run from USA. Most child disappearances are not reported. The numbers are about 250,000 children per year disappear & never seen again every single year in USA alone. The situation never improved & got worse. USA government inaction run by pedos. Accept facts & then act to stop this evil. I do not know who is worse the crazy psychopaths who do all the crimes or the supposedly sane public who allow it to happen. MayaBell. com
smokesignal216 1 month ago
@smokesignal216 Not saying the US doesnt have an issue here.. just saying that the world is a far worse place then here in the US. Stop and consider the scope of this, the size of the nation, number of people in it. You really should reread my post and not attack those who post other facts. (That this world has worse places then here). Misdirected anger will accomplish nothing. I find more "pedos" in schools and churches then in the Government (via the news).
Bear44mc 1 month ago
@Bear44mc USA runs the world's child sex trade. USA is run by Satanists & more than 200,000 children every year disappear in the USA alone; victims of child sacrifice & pedos & shipped to other parts of the world to be used as sex slaves. USA also is a war profiteering, weapons trading drug trading criminals, but that does not bother me as much as their jailing innocent people & selling, using & abusing children & families. You know nothing about what is happening.
smokesignal216 1 month ago
@smokesignal216 How many kids leave home of their own accord, we dont know. How many of them think they can make it on their own, when they cant, end up in bad places? I am not denying anything you posted- just saying I have seen first hand mass graves of women and children- all overseas, none here. Just how am I/ are we suppose to stop this crime... its often in private places where I am not, we are not. Insulting the sanity of peeps you dont know is wrong. None of my freinds would allow this
Bear44mc 1 month ago
@Bear44mc they do not leave because they want to. they are abused and the government is also abusing them and not protecting them. as this movie shows, nobody believed those kids or helped them to get good evidence. also in this messed up system, both kids & adults are put in jail based on false testimony of people who are neither sane nor trustable. the government pays well for false witnesses & sends people to death based on it. also professional murderers well paid by the fascist government.
smokesignal216 1 month ago
@Bear44mc - Guess you haven't seen the borders of Arizona and New Mexico, my friend. Ever heard of rape trees?
nevskislake 4 weeks ago
@Bear44mc the government is run by pedos & child murderers. while USA sanctioned Iran for daring to have free trade of oil instead of the monopolies of USA backed oil cartels who pay no taxes, get USA subsidies & use our army & our $ to fight their oil monopoly claims while they murder & sodomize children around the world & in USA. Oriental nations had child prost for years yet USA had no problem trading with those countries. You won't see the mass graves in USA, our government controls media.
smokesignal216 1 month ago
Why didn't Ms.Benatar address the two other forms of child abuse,
Both of which happened to me...
Psychological& Emotional abuse?
Freyja1133 2 months ago in playlist Hard Rock
1980's Fridays was the west coasts' answer to the east coasts SNL...
electrovox1212 2 months ago
Man was Neil a fox, big time!
DreamScape799 2 months ago
cobs version is much better
XsmacksX 2 months ago in playlist Liked
A very powerful song about child abuse!
justentime77 3 months ago
she is one of the best
alisha0748 3 months ago
I really think this song was meant for children that are abused. I have been listening this song over 30 years, and it is a great song! Enjoy and take it for what it is.
soflatriker 3 months ago
I love you Pat!
susangrewal86 3 months ago
Sounds like the song was written by Iron Maiden, or something like that. I could mosh to this tune. But it's way beautiful as well, with a tragic subject.
sinbysin666 3 months ago
@sinbysin666 BOC has a song about psychical abuse called Joan Crawford..( which I can't bear to listen to these days...It hits too close tohome forme... the other forms abuse were dealt to me by my parents Psychological& Emotional abuse
Freyja1133 2 months ago in playlist Hard Rock
@Freyja1133 That's tough. Fire of Unknown Origin happens to be one of my favorite albums.
sinbysin666 2 months ago
Excellent tune. I always imagined Alice Cooper covering this song. would be wicked!
jenniferjuniper97 4 months ago
When I was in a youth crisis shelter with this kid who had been horribly abused and committed suicide because of his abuse, I dedicated this song to him. His abusers should go to the lowest hell there is.
TheTrancemitter 4 months ago
Great performance!
Stevis82 4 months ago
God Bless you Pat Benatar . You may think your song didn't make a difference, but it did.
Yeshua001 4 months ago
Why is she singing elephant children? Is this song about the poor circus elephant babies that get taken away from their mothers when they are just babies. Sad.
tonymice 4 months ago in playlist PAT BENATAR
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I don't get it. Why is she singing such a creepy, crummy song as this? Does she hate kids? guyNbluejeans
In 1980, people didn't talk about this, so an ultra-popular singer screamed about it in a song tthat would be hard to ignore.
Violacousness 5 months ago
@Violacousness lol ur stupid u dont even kno what the songs about
rockerz4ever21 3 months ago
I don't get it. Why is she singing such a creepy, crummy song as this? Does she hate kids?
guyNbluejeans 5 months ago
@guyNbluejeans It's about child abuse. Back in the '70's it was a taboo subject to even talk about. She was trying to bring the reality of it to the general public's attention.
TheInevitableHimes 5 months ago
@TheInevitableHimes Okay. Thanks!
guyNbluejeans 5 months ago
@guyNbluejeans Ummm noooo... She wrote the song because she was moved by the articles she read about children being abused. She donates all the money generated by this song in royalties to organizations that help abused kids.
tall32guy 4 months ago 3
@tall32guy Okay. Thanks, and good for her for being so decent.
guyNbluejeans 4 months ago
@guyNbluejeans Oh, no! Not at all! She knows that thousands of kids get abused every day, and this song is trying to tell people about it, and make it stop and make a difference. :)
Amor4everz 2 weeks ago
@Amor4everz Someone else already pointed that out. I thank you just the same.:-)
guyNbluejeans 1 week ago
@guyNbluejeans
Ur welcome! :)
Amor4everz 1 week ago
One of the best female vocalists in the industry ever. I bet she still can sing like a siren. She should do a comeback!
Flynnsim 5 months ago
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2011 and I’m still hitting replay on this song! I LOVE PAT BENETAR! DAMN she can sing her booty off! Her strength, beauty, and kick ass attitude has been such a huge inspiration to me being a female singer! She has paved the way for female rock singer! I am in a pop/punk band called HEY YOU. If any of you PB fans would like to give it a try, we just put up a new video, and would love it if you would let us know what you think.... = )
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MaxwellThomas88 5 months ago
Pat and Spider still together, hope you caught them on Oprah, she asked how they stay a couple so long... "She's always right", was Neil's response. He's playing his BCRich Eagle here
MetallicBill 5 months ago
The greatest female rock star hands down.
k3w1b3an5 5 months ago
PAT ROCKS!!!! She was SOOO freaking hot!
dbonacum 5 months ago
This song is creepy. I still don't get it.
MiamiCat23 5 months ago
@MiamiCat23 Song is about child abuse.
badmutha07 5 months ago
@MiamiCat23 Saw her tonight here in Cincinnati...she told the story about how this song came about...back in 1980, the NY Times ran a big article about Child Abuse, which wasn't talked about at all...physical and sexual abuse basically...she said it angered and saddened her and she had to write what thoughts it brought up...Neil (her guitarist and soon to be husband...now of 30 yrs btw...wrote the music to it...she will play this song at every concert/show she does until every child is safe.
buckeyefan20012001 5 months ago 14
@buckeyefan20012001 wow that is great, never heard that, thanx, she was great live right????
valanibalroman 1 week ago
Just saw her last night in Reno. 58 years old and she still kicks major ass!
Unbelievable show...
norbypohl413 5 months ago
wow. i have the chills. pat n her man i luv you two
myowntruth44 5 months ago
Why didn't PAt benatar address Verbal abuse in this song?
Freyja1133 5 months ago
One of the best bands of all time.
zbaby82 5 months ago
This song and music video should be sent to CPS across America and to ChildhelpUSA. To date, I haven't met an adult who was an abused child that both places didn't failed to protect. Sadly, the American Family Courts are still messed up. There are countless innocent children who are not being protected. Two excellent cases for examples were the Elizabeth Mogan case and recently the Anthony case. At least,Elena Mitrano (Hillary Morgan) These are reasons why I advocate for the voiceless.
AlexisAlways1 6 months ago
yeah the reason (the song) is for stop the crasy peapole attacking every children
Phoenix412T1iron 6 months ago
5 ft. nothing, maybe a 100 lbs. Trained in classical and it shows. GOT THE PIPES!!!!
thirdgradedumb 6 months ago 7
geeez...what losers...
Soundrexor 6 months ago
What a great guitar player!!!!
witchman1 6 months ago
Have to agree, this transfers across to animal abuse as well as child abuse. WTG Pat. This song never dates, still love it, still gives me chills when I hear it.
KiaraFurbaby 6 months ago
Hell should NEVER be for children. It is so sad to see children who have to endure abuse....as a father, I cannot imagine making my children suffer like that in any way!
DouglasLancaster 6 months ago
2011 and I’m still hitting replay on this song! I LOVE PAT BENETAR! DAMN she can sing her booty off! Her strength, beauty, and kick ass attitude has been such a huge inspiration to me being a female singer! She has paved the way for female rock singer! I am in a pop/punk band called HEY YOU. If any of you PB fans would like to give it a try, we just put up a new video, and would love it if you would let us know what you think.... = )
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heyyouband 6 months ago
Why cant bands play like that nowdays
Redazagthoth 6 months ago
This song HITS me hard everytime I hear it
Tho I was'nt abused as a CHILD
It HITS me HARD because I LOVE CHILDREN very much
They should play tis song to Casey Anthony
At least LITTLE Casey is in HEAVEN now
I HOPE Casey ROTS in HELL
CHILDREN are to be LOVED not ABUSED
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CAEBIEBER12 6 months ago
my mom used to listen to this song all the time while i was growing up and for the longest time i thought she was pissed at me
Kielbasa1993 6 months ago
i worked for 34 years in law enforcement and it was my pleasure to tell the prisoners that there new jail mate was a child abuser.Those guys and women had a way to deal with them.
1234tla 6 months ago 3
child abusers should be publicaly tortured and humiliated.that would be a step in the right dirrection.the laws need to be changed for scum who strike or sexually abuse children.children are the most precious gift.hell awaits those who abuse children
rideamileman41 6 months ago
She is already beautiful, but if she had long hair, she'd be gorgeous..
Rockette2RockerChic 6 months ago
@Rockette2RockerChic i disagree, her elfin-like features were made for the pixie cut. long hair would wash her face out and make it stand out less. also it'd look less badass.
14istheluckynumber 6 months ago
this is well written & Pat knocks it out singing on of my favorite songs form her.
youraverageuser 7 months ago
Damn Neil was so fuckin' HOT!!! What a hot rock couple; look at 'em.
ivegottaheadache 7 months ago
this lady kicks ass! love her beats
hatecore27 7 months ago
I love this song, due to the fact that I was also an abused child. NEVER hit anyone, rather it be a child or not. Violence has never solved anything. and it is really unfortunate that this cruel world has come to that.
mrsyork28 7 months ago
One of Pat Benatars best songs and so true, when I hear about abusings it makes me want to tear the abusers to pieces
1996Sherman1996 7 months ago
nice song, but i think CoB's is better
videos4you4my 7 months ago
spyders bc rich is epic. O.o
romandtlopez 7 months ago
pat rules!!!
crazychick216 7 months ago
This is an abusive commentary, ain't it
preshytimey1 8 months ago
@Lindawatcher You're just another money-hungry pussy ass bitch who can't stand up for themselves. When a cop starts hitting you, that's your cue top start smashing the top of their skull in with whatever's laying around.
brapboys503 8 months ago
Lets see! What shall I buy next with my "Lawsuit money? HEE HEE!! Here comes a good ole honkin large-screen TV.......
Lindawatcher 8 months ago
I LOVE PAT BENATAR
terror142 8 months ago
its better when Children of Bodom sings it
123456789littledog 8 months ago
@123456789littledog - Ever heard the Benatar' album version? C of B suck on this song. Listen to Benatar's live version 30 years after the album release. Pat Benatar Live 7-09-10. Even after 30 years live, the current version rocks over this version and C of B!!!!!!!
innamorata40 7 months ago
For some reason I remember this on TV. Was this Saturday Night Live? Can't remember.
kchamz 8 months ago
This is amazing.
michellextina 9 months ago
WHEN U LISTEN TO THESE KINDS OF MUSIC,MAKE SURE NOBODY MAKES U ANGRY THEN U DO STUPID STUFF,CAUSE U CANT HANDLE SONGS LIKE THIS THAT MOTIVATE TO PAYBACK THOSE WHO HURT U,U NEED SELF CONTROL,CAUSE ITS NOT PATS FAULT,ITS YUR FAULT FOR DRINKING,TAKING IT LITERALY TO YUR MIND,ENJOY THE MUSIC,HAVE FUN HELL IS FOR CHIRLDREN WHO END UP IN PRISON,JAIL,ON THE STREETS,HOMELESS WHO ARE LOST,ABUSED,ABONDONED,ITS OK TO HEAR THIS SONG OF HELL,AS LONG AS U KNOW UR NOT THE ONE WHOS GONNA PAY,THEN ITS SCARY.
pinkrainbowfour 9 months ago
im 19 and i grew up listening to Pat Benatar. I got to see her live a couple years ago and she sang this. i had never heard it before then. She sang it with so much emotion and powerful energy. It felt like you got shot with a high volt of electricity. It was amazing. I got to shake her hand that night. :) she rocks my socks off.
LABandNerd 9 months ago
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This song to raise the awareness of child abuse and child labour. It was first sang in 1979 when it was " the international year of the child" and no she is NOT a Canadian, she is an American.
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BoxedPaperTv 9 months ago
Pat Benatar is Canadian
cliiff2 9 months ago
@cliiff2 Patricia Mae Andrzejewski (Pat Benatar) was born in Brooklyn, NY.
ivegottaheadache 7 months ago
that is not for children
HCM5823 9 months ago
Pat Benatar is playing in so many porn movies... Just saying :D
mammuttisusi 9 months ago
@mammuttisusi If Pat Doesn't kick your ass for that comment I bet Samantha Fox would be in line next.
srussert28 9 months ago
...and children will go to hell if when they grow up, they will produce fake-autotune voices in songs.... remember the times with pat benatar, were u had 2 have talent to be famous, and not 12 million dollars?!
alfa999er 9 months ago
AWESOME LIke Blonde they are the Best xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
MrRick569 9 months ago
abuse
WishesSailorMoon 9 months ago
pat rules period!!!!
ptaker762 9 months ago
Our childhood was a living hell, with a drunken father coming home and smashing up the house, and whoever got in his way as he attacked my mother! Thank God, the abuse finally stopped after he left for 3.5 years! Love, BobbyK
bobby7771117 9 months ago
Pat Benatar is the hottest Australian singer of all time!
Hunkola 9 months ago
@Hunkola Huh? What are you talking about? Pat Benatar is American.
PatBenatarLibrary 9 months ago 3
@Hunkola you must be high... she's from New York...
mccoobs 9 months ago
Yeah Nick Geraldo, her HUSBAND of many decades....he rocks, also classically trained! The quote "Hell is for Children" however is taken out of context here. But still brilliant song.
richmanpoman1 9 months ago
the guitar guy is hot lol
MusicPoursDown 9 months ago
@MusicPoursDown I think that's her husband, Spider. Not 100% sure though.
mooresus 9 months ago
I prefer COBHC's cover!!!!!
Tie4821 10 months ago
I love this video!!! best singer ever!!!!!!!!
azrightwinger123 10 months ago
pat benatar is one of my favorite arist of all time
thebadblue123 10 months ago
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remydarnell4 10 months ago
LOVE IT.
uppiteee 10 months ago
Pat is an angel from Heaven. Period. I have spoken . Believe it.
IgnacioBuenosnachos 10 months ago
guitarist on the left really loves himself.
defin99 10 months ago
I really love this song from Pat!
marco29a 10 months ago
You do know that adults go to hell, right?
thickerpickerupper 10 months ago
I love Benatar I had all of her music. But after time goes by. Joan Jett was a harder rocker. Where are today's lady rockers?? I'd love to hear them.
wayneswhls 10 months ago
Your absolutely correct. Pat has 8 full octaves. A rare find. Most people have 1 or 2 if they are lucky.
TheParamountPrincess 10 months ago 2
love this song .. i remember when it came out hearing the idiots who never "listened " to the words , say Pat was glorifying child abuse...stupid judgmental people. Who, could ever derive to that conclusion...they made those remarks based on what others were saying and never listened for themselves.
it is this very song that reminds me to listen first when it comes to music, Before what others may think or say.
ptz593443x 11 months ago
I've met Pat in person. She is a very short person. But she has the largest vocal chords. She can literally blow you away.
warriorgrayn 11 months ago
One word.....SPYDER!!!!!!
jamesskb 11 months ago
May not like Pat Benatar over all. but I do like this song. She's a good singer. her music isn't my style. but I do love the sentiments she's expressed here.
shaloneithne 11 months ago
Pat Benatar is the hotest girl whos in their 50s that i know
TheLaMoFo 11 months ago 2
@jurabelle, I disagree. It must be incredibly difficult going through life with no brain.
SgtCrom 11 months ago
She is not one of the best, she is the best! To be able to wail like that and hold a note is absolutely remarkable. So glad she turned to Rock 'n' Roll. A close second is Nancy Wilson from Heart. 40 people need to take their heads out of their asses.
cleanandsober4ever 11 months ago 2
She is not one of the best, she is the best! To be able to wail like that and hold a note is absolutely remarkable. So glad she turned to Rock 'n' Roll. A close second is Nancy Wilson from Heart.
cleanandsober4ever 11 months ago
thought she moved to Hawaii and married with children.
79jimmyo 1 year ago
This is one of the songs that I will turn the volume up on in my SUV--if I'm alone. I survived child abuse and domestic violence. My two oldest children were abused by their 'father' who abused them when he couldn't get to me after we split up. Sometimes, I cry when I hear this; but, I always replay it (I have it on a CD).
rebelrose1863 1 year ago
@rebelrose1863 I worked in law enforcement for 15 years...I lost my job smashing a child/domestic abuser in the head with my baton. He'd been through the system so many times he 'assured' me he'd walk on this charge as well. He ended up with a skull fracture and 90 days in jail after a six month stay in the hospital. I lost my job, and ended up paying all his medical expenses and litigation against me is still pending. And....I would do it again. God bless you....
Tim22410 1 year ago 61
@Tim22410 : I am sorry that you lost your job & are in litigation because of this creep. I've been married almost 19 years to a now retired deputy sheriff (he retired in 2007 after 28 1/2 yrs with the same dept). A lot of people would not believe the stories he has told me. My abuse was worse than some; not as bad as some. My husband saw me typing this and asked me to let you know that he still has flashbacks/nightmares/PTSD due to some of the child abuse that he responded to.
rebelrose1863 1 year ago 3
@Tim22410, right on, brother!!! If it ever happens again, hit the bastard until that skull fracture looks like the Grand Canyon. Then he can't get up to falsely testify, you keep your job and there are no medical expenses to worry about.
SgtCrom 11 months ago 2
@SgtCrom thanks for the support! Sometimes doing the 'wrong' thing, is actually, doing the 'right' thing.
Tim22410 11 months ago
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Good for you! I would do the same. The legal system here sucks, where you can't legally act to protect defenseless women and children.
shannon1234550 11 months ago 2
@Tim22410 good on you.Hang all the preverts.
TheEagleschild 9 months ago
@Tim22410 sorry to hear what happened bro:( but your not alone in that i would lose my job for the same reason so I do hope one day the good karmic reaons for your act will be paid with good fortune for you-Salute
kahetel13 9 months ago
@Tim22410 God bless you, sir. Child abusers deserve the worst.
yourfaceisannoying 9 months ago
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You should get your job back. FUCK abusers. They deserve the violence they dish out, ten fold.
evildaveprime 9 months ago 43
Thank you... from a survivor of abuse. Sorry you lost your job, etc. But karma will come around for you. :)
lilystcyr 8 months ago
@Tim22410 This is the man you are paying dearly for hurting! I will continue to follow you to the ends of the Eart!... To sue you so many times over that you will NEVER have two pennies to rub together! You will be too poor to pay attention when we get done financially raping your ass! Get used to beans and rice my friend... because financially= = you are toast!
Lindawatcher 8 months ago
@Lindawatcher Are you serious? You're hurting? Lol...wah wah wah. If you are the trash that Tim threw out then you only got half of what you deserved. But that's ok because you will get yours in the end (literally and figuratively I'm sure.) Better start looking over your shoulder, you can't sue everyone and you can't take it to hell with you. By the way, how did it feel to be on the receiving end, you twisted p.o.s?
Moneypenny9971 8 months ago
@Moneypenny9971 The bible even talk about child abuse..... ever hear of the verse: "Suffer the little children?" SEE!..... they are to suffer!!!
Lindawatcher 8 months ago
@Lindawatcher Children don't need to suffer. I don't care what book you read that from. Start using common sense.
johnnyray1717 8 months ago
@johnnyray1717 Those Damn screaming rug rats definately did something wrong/stupid that deserves it........... Boy are they a pain in the ass!
Lindawatcher 8 months ago
@Lindawatcher LoL...fail troll is fail.
Moneypenny9971 8 months ago
@Moneypenny9971 GOTCHA! lol lol Love pissing people off and playing devil's advocate! Pepole are sooooo gullable! lol lol Well, gotta go... got to go BEAT my kids! lolllolololool
Lindawatcher 8 months ago
@Lindawatcher You got that complete warped. The verse is about children wanting to come up to Jesus and his Apostles were telling the kids to go away and leave him alone. He said back to them "Suffer not the little children and forbid them not to come unto me: for to such belongeth the kingdom of heaven." He's telling them not to hassle the kids and let them come to him. How people can twist that to justify child abuse is mind-boggling and evil.
selinakyle 6 months ago
@Tim22410 , I think they should be beaten and if they die in the process oh well, no children would have to worry about being abused by that piece of trash again. I'm sorry to hear about your circumstance, I would have done the same thing.
Larrsify 8 months ago
@Tim22410 You are my hero.
turkishbrides 8 months ago
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@Tim22410 Fuck you, pig. Rot in hell.
brapboys503 8 months ago
@Tim22410 You AND your family, if you still have one...
brapboys503 8 months ago
@Tim22410 BUT thank you for smashing an abuser's head in.
brapboys503 8 months ago
@Tim22410 two wrongs don't make a right. Abuse is abuse, whether its an adult abusing a child or a dirty pig abusing his authority and smashing somebodys head in .
bigrigJim 8 months ago 3
@bigrigJim But, two negatives make a positive. :/
Godzie1 8 months ago
@Tim22410 Good for you but if it was me? I would have shot him instead to make sure he never hurt a kid again. (Thats why I never got into the police force, I don't trust myself w/a gun. I forever be in paperwork!) :P
Godzie1 8 months ago
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BestialB6 7 months ago
@Tim22410 there is no way you should have gotten fired for that! talk about unfair and totally discriminatory
iceyqueeen22 7 months ago 5
@Tim22410 pity it wasnt a gun.
barnydrunk 7 months ago
@Tim22410 I hope and pray something better is ahead for you at the end of the tunnel...don't you just love how the law protects those animals and people that would make great foster parents get caught up in red tape??
phillyTne 6 months ago
@rebelrose1863
It hurts to listen to, because it strikes so close to home. But you have a right to be angry and sad. Pat Benetar addresses a very painful and ugly issue; that of child abuse. I stumbled on this site by accident, but I was very glad to do so. I stopped being a victim when I faced down my father at age 15 with an axe in my hands. But the pain is still there. It's hard to get over being hurt where you were supposed to have been nurtured. I tried to say more, but characters ran out.
shannon1234550 11 months ago
@shannon1234550 There are times that I listen to it over and over, like I'm doing now. My husband's home now, so I shouldn't keep doing it--the song really bothers him because he had to deal with this issue as a deputy sheriff.
I'm dealing with PTSD again because of an incident in January--and the PTSD goes back to when I was 3 and saw my mom catch on fire; child abuse; domestic violence.......Survived it, but in a way I didn't.
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