Therapist reacts to Last Resort Reimagined by Falling In Reverse

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Therapist analyzes the lyrics to Last Resort (Reimagined) by Falling in Reverse to discuss how most people think the power of music happens when we listen, but the real power of music ies when it’s inspiration for connection. The end of this song invites us to reach out for support and watch our lives slowly start to rebuild.

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You’ve been the first one to comment on the rebuilding at the end when he let it all out. I actually didn’t like this version until I saw the video. Then I loved it.

Reminds me of when Trent Reznor said in an interview that his song Hurt was no longer his song. Hurt is now Johnny Cash’s song.

The original is the anger.
This version is the desperation.

Fuck this song hits so deep. Hopefully one day these thoughts will leave my head until then I walk the fine line of life and death

Ronnie created a masterpiece. Chester is gone too soon.

That first “I’m Fine” chokes me up ! I get goosebumps. I love this so much :heart:

You should really give Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires, or Jason Isbell – Elephant a chance, a lyrical genius

Please do the drug in me is you re.Imagined next it is amazing

Hi im new to the channel was wondering if you could react to given up by linkin park. Id like to see your analysis of one of my favorite songs.

The longer you let it go the tougher it feels to dig yourself out of the rubble…to the point it feels impossible to dig your way out.
*I finally reached back out to my therapist today, Dec 4 can’t get here fast enough

I read this comment on another reaction: “The original version was one that the angsty teens in us wanted at the time, now this is the version we needed as broken adults” as A 45yr old Gen Xer nothing could b further from the truth and ur reaction is amazing to it…also, Ronnie’s voice!

Hi Taylor, how will I follow you here from Brazil, I waited a long time for you to react to this song… it’s my second favorite reaction of yours. The first is black by Pearl Jam… thank you very much for that, a big hug from Brazil :heart::brazil::heart:

Been waiting for this!!!

We get it Ronnie! You can music!

Sorry for the long-winded comment here… but…

The Original “Last Resort” quite literally saved me.

My Highschool years, 1996 - 2000. Early years of Highschool, i was hit with a sudden medical issue that essentially had my lungs randomly collapse in a strangely alternating fashion every 2 weeks (ie: first the right, then the left, then right again). Result after the 4th one was a surgery over the summer between Freshman and Sophomore year. Fast-forward to my Sr year, and the problem came back, only when it came back, it nearly took me in my sleep (though i managed to be to stubborn to lay there and die and managed to claw my way back from the brink till the EMS that responded could help the rest of the way). Needless to say, i was in seriously deep spirits facing yet another ‘gauntlet’ of what i thought i had already beat.

Then Last Resort came out, and something in that song snagged me. I found myself one night, prior to a 2nd, more severe surgery being planned/scheduled after yet another collapse, sitting on the edge of my bed in my room at 2am with Last Resort playing on repeat, spinning a 8in hunting knife between my hands. I was simply ‘tired of fighting’, despite having quite literally fighting to live just a few weeks before.

A Combination of Last Resort, and my own stubbornness, and a dash of the values my parents had instilled in me, is what kept me from falling to those daemons. Stubbornness and being brought up to ‘not harm those you care about’ (which in the back of my mind i knew would happen if i lost that fight) gave me the resistance, but Last Resort gave me the outlet to quietly scream at while i fought that silent battle in my head. 5:46 - 6:30 (your video’s timestamps) WAS my battle that night. Feeling as if i could not go on knowing i’d be facing yet another lung collapse in another 2 weeks, then another in a further 2 weeks, and on and on. “i cant go on, living this way” as the lyric says.

Ronnie’s Reimagined version of this song is what " I " lived though. Its what " I " was hearing when i heard the original. And the final bit of his Video, with all the walls rebuilding themselves, is what the song did ‘for’ me all those years ago. Crawling my way back to my feet and telling the doorman at death’s door “no, im not ready yet.”

THIS is how i felt when i heard the original… THIS is what i was hearing when i heard that original song… its what gave me the courage to not back down and give up.

Yes i was ‘head-banging’ to the original (i even do the same to this version, just at a more sedated pace), but the feelings THIS song give… are what i was dealing with at that moment…

Many people ‘rocked out’ to Last Resort. It was their ‘angry escape’ song of sorts from everything from a bad day at school, looing a game, or just angry at life in general. For some of us, it had an entirely different meaning. Ronnie Captures THAT side of the song that those of us who latched onto it as a lifeline felt with this Reimagined version. :purple_heart:

Please give a reaction to the song waiting for the end - Linkin Park! Please!!

Fun fact -the one with Jacoby and Ronnie was while they were touring together and one show Jacoby s wife called him crying and he was worried about what was wrong but she told him she was crying because she had just heard Ronnie’s version of the song

This version always hit me hard.

Have you checked out the song Bother by Stone Sour (Corey Taylor from Slipknot other band,) yet?

What in the x factors got talent is going on here?!