Objects In The Rear View Mirror
I would like to take this moment to address an issue that has plagued me since it first came to my attention way back in '94 when I was a confused little boy entering the 5th grade and Meat Loaf was hot. No, not meatloaf as in, "meat loaf for dinner again." I am referring to the other Meat Loaf, you know, the one who played Bob in the Hollywood thriller, Fight Club. Five years before he donned the "bitch-tits" costume, Meat Loaf was hot on the charts with his single, Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are. The reference to the warning on a rear view mirror is a poignant metaphor about how memories from long ago still haunt us in the present.
All too true I'm afraid, but I myself have always been haunted by the fact that the title of the song is in blatant contradiction to the actual warning on a rear view mirror.

Meat Loaf would have you believe that objects appear close when they are, in fact, far. The man clearly does not understand the principles of a convex mirror and could have taken a lesson from this scene in the 1993 Hollywood thriller Jurassic Park, which clearly points out the fact that, though the T-Rex appears close, it is in fact, closer. Oh Shit, Look Out Malcolm!!! Think they'll have that on the tour? Yes.... apparently, yes.
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and also, it is of course a
SIDE view mirror
and NOT the
rear view mirror,
which is in the middle of the windshield.
Well yes, but I'll let that one fly on the premise that a side view mirror is still a form of rear view mirror.
i remember it saying MAY BE closer.. he did not get the lyrics wrong.. do me a favor and search the term on TWITTER and see how many people remember MAY BE closer than they appear.. its part of the mandela effect.. yea, I know.. laugh all you want.. but I swear to GOD it used to say that.. i often wondered WHY would something MAY appear closer, they do or they dont.. but i would put my life on the line that it used to say that.. 10000%
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