Christmas Kids by ROAR (but you're running away)

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Door creak noise from here: https://freesound.org/people/Zabuhailo/sounds/214081/

Link to Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/be-my-baby-ronnie-spector/1118604409?ean=9781942570035

Based on this interview with Roar, Christmas Kids is about the abusive relationship between Ronnie Spector of the Ronnettes and Phil Spector.

Ronnie left the relationship due to psychological abuse, with Phil keeping her captive in their house. He did not want her to leave at all or “disappear”, causing him to take her shoes and surround their house with barbed wire and guard dogs. Ronnie had to escape barefoot. Phil threatened to kill Ronnie if she were ever to leave, and even kept a golden coffin with a glass front for Ronnie so that he “can keep an eye on her after she’s dead.”

Why the song is named Christmas Kids:
The producer’s destructive behavior is the stuff of rock mythology, but one of the most bizarre things Phil did was adopt a set of twins — Gary and Louis, now 52 — without telling his pop star wife.

“We were in the car and all of a sudden we pull up to the mansion and there’s a fountain and there are these twins running around — these blond-haired, blue-eyed twins,” she tells PEOPLE. “I’m saying, ‘What’s this?’ He said, ‘Merry Christmas!'”

“He never said, ‘Ronnie, what do you think we should do? Should we adopt twins?’ Nothing! Everything was a surprise, and no woman wants live children as a surprise,” she continues.

OP's disclaimer:

Ronnie escaped Phil on June 12, 1972. Clearly, this video is not intended to be recreation of any real life event.

I used to listen to this song back in high school, and at some point, I thought I had read somewhere that Ronnie had cut her feet on glass and had to escape with bleeding bare feet. This is not true, I don't know where I got that information from, but that's what I now picture in my head whenever I hear this song.