“Three Lock Box” by Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar named his seventh studio album after "Three Lock Box", the title track of the set Geffen released on December 6, 1982. He wrote it alone, words and music, and Keith Olsen produced.

The song is a self-improvement sermon disguised as a treasure hunt. Hagar explained it through deep-sea diving: picture a sunken chest fitted with three locks, which tells you it held the queen's most valuable cargo, since it took three separate men with their own keys to open it and nobody could loot it alone. The real box, he said, sits inside each of us, holding our physical, mental and spiritual potential, and whoever unlocks all three and keeps them in balance becomes a true human being, close to godly. Elsewhere he allowed it could just as well mean a woman's body.

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