Jim Steinman has this to say about the song: "...Selena Kyle, aka Catwoman secretly, was a witness to the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents. A street urchin who happened to see it all, hidden away. The brutal murders haunt both Bruce and Selena. But both respond totally different to their traumatic bruising. Bruce learns to vow revenge and becomes the avenging knight, Batman. But Selena is mostly mentally scarred by realizing how easily things that are precious can be taken from you. (Mrs. Wayne's pearl necklace is ripped from her throat.) So Selena grows up, craving precious jewels, & obsessed with holding onto them! (She never wears them outside, shes a plain mousy woman, but she hoards them in chests.) Only when she transforms into Catwoman are her love of danger & lust for precious jewel