Falco goes inside his tower and finds his wife, Sloane, played by Sharon Sexton. He complains about the Lost constantly getting in the way of his plans and that they are trying to stop his housing project. They whine together about how annoying teenagers are, since they are also the parents of one. And so they go into the song (which is, essentially, whining about how annoying teenagers are).

The song itself doesn’t differ much from what Meat Loaf recorded a year before. It doesn’t have the ’50s rock and roll opening or the guitar solo, but that’s about it for musical differences.

However, the “My ____ just isn’t what it was/My _____ just isn’t what it was/My ____ just isn’t what it was” sections that are overly repetitive on Meat Loaf’s recording here are first sung by Falco, then sung by Sloane, then sung by the two together, which does address the repetition problem. They also both sound much better than Meat Loaf did (Fowler in particular–he even turns “My voice just isn’t what it was” into a joke that lands).

It’s an improvement over Meat Loaf’s version because of the vocal changes and replacing the over-the-hill Meat Loaf with Sexton and Fowler, but I still am not much of a fan of this song.

A lot happens between songs here–listening to the cast album is a bit jarring without any of the in-between context as a result.

Strat sneaks into Raven’s bedroom through the window and steals a magazine with her picture on the cover. Sloane narrowly misses him and talks to Raven about her 18th birthday tomorrow. Their discussion here makes it pretty clear that Sloane is, at heart, more of a rebellious, partying type than what we see. She misses her youth.

Sloane also explains some back story: Twenty-five years ago, through chemical warfare and an earthquake, a poison of some kind infected the teens hiding in the subway tunnels in one area of what was then New York. During the rebuild of what is now Obsidian, they found that these teens now didn’t age. The Lost live in the abandoned tunnels that once housed the subway.

Then, Falco arrives, still filled with rage and his face bloodied from the fight. Strat throws a bottle at the window and rides away, Falco catching sight of him as he does. He and Raven have a typical parent-teenager argument as she complains that he keeps her locked in her room all day and he complains that she’s ungrateful for the safety. He tells her to stop thinking about “those boys” and she refuses.

The Romeo & Juliet parallels are definitely strong here.