> And I don’t understand why. What did she hear that I didn’t? Easy answer: Her personal zeitgeist. The author seems to focus on the lyrical meaning of the son

> And I don’t understand why. What did she hear that I didn’t? Easy answer: Her personal zeitgeist. The author seems to focus on the lyrical meaning of the song being the root cause for her emotion. But her reaction is likely far more complex than "satire of communism" but a time capsule or snap shot of memories and emotions of her world when she heard this song. It not only recalls memories of a painful part of her life but also the pleasant parts: friends, relations, family, things and places which are long gone; A temporal marker to a place which she cannot travel to. Of course the author kind of explains this in the next paragraph, but then seemingly backtracks to her interpretation of the lyrics: "We will never be able to truly understand or feel how the satire hit under the weight of an oppressive communist regime." I highly doubt it was only about the weight of an oppressive communist regime. When I hear "eye of the tiger" I can get a bit emotional. It has nothing to do with "Rising up to the challenge" or the band Survivor but the whole of the period in which I heard the song. It brings back a simpler time: childhood bedroom, my father was still alive, the joy of being a kid and discovering rock music. It's so much more than the subject of the song and lyrics...