What was MeatLoaf talking about with those lyrics?

I hate to think.............:whip:

Those lyrics are an inside joke with my wife and me.I say they mean that he will do anything for her except lie, she says it makes no sense, then I say I took poetry in college so I have an idea what it means. She gives me a dirty look and I slink off into the corner.

no idea, and the video for that song is pretty strange too...but, just got done listening to bat out of hell on the ar-9's and am pretty worn out :D

Donate all his vintage stereo stuff to Goodwill and buy a Bose Wave?

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, I won't do that
Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, oh I won't do that

Some days it don't come easy, and some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all, and these are the days that never end
Some nights you're breathing fire, and some nights you're carved in ice
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before or will again

Maybe I'm crazy, but it's crazy and it's true
I know you can save me, no one else can save me now but you

As long as the planets are turning, as long as the stars are burning
As long as your dreams are coming true, you better believe it

That I would do anything for love, and I'll be there til the final act
I would do anything for love, and I'll take a vow and seal a pact

But I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
Oh I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that

I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
(repeats 3x)

(Solo)

Some days I pray for silence, and somedays I pray for soul
Some days I just pray to the God of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N Roll
Some nights I lose the feeling, and some nights I lose control
Some nights I just lose it all when I watch you dance and the thunder rolls

Maybe I'm lonely and that's all I'm qualified to be
There's just one and only, the one and only promise I can keep

As long as the wheels are turning, as long as the fires are burning
As long as your prayers are coming true, you better believe it

That I would do anything for love, and you know it's true and that's a fact
I would do anything for love, and there'll never be no turning back

But I'll never do it better than I do it with you, so long, so long
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no no no I won't do that

I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
(repeats 7x)

But I'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way

And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that

[Girl:] Will you raise me up, will you help me down?
Will you get me right out of this Godforsaken town?
Will you make it all a little less cold?

[Boy:] I can do that! I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you hold me sacred? Will you hold me tight?
Can you colorize my life, I'm so sick of black and white?
Can you make it all a little less old?

[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh, now I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you make me some magic, with your own two hands?
Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?
Can you give me something I can take home?

[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will ya hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?
Will you take me places I've never known?

[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] After a while you'll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that it's time to move on
[Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that!

[Girl:] I know the territory, I've been around
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down
And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around

[Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that!

Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that

Ernie- as a reward for that post, please ban yourself for a week.

Ernie- as a reward for that post, please ban yourself for a week.
:lmao:

Ernie- as a reward for that post, please ban yourself for a week.
WHAT?? And deprive you of all that fun?

I would do anything for 'toze, but I won't do that!

Ernie- as a reward for that post, please ban yourself for a week.

Anybody else got a mental image of Ernie dressed up as Meat Loaf, belting out that tune? :D

I never could decide if I liked Meat loaf or not. On one hand, there was the thing that he was most assuredly NOT a rock'n'roll prettyboy, he was from Texas, IIRC, & not disco, at that dreadful era when most everything was. On the other hand, there was something kinda "Eeeeuuwww !" about the whole schtick...

Anybody else got a mental image of Ernie dressed up as Meat Loaf, belting out that tune? :D
No. Absolutely not. :nono: I don't have an image of him doing the "Alice's Restaurant (http://audiokarma.org/forums/showpost.php?p=900181&postcount=16)" cover photo shoot, either.

I never could decide if I liked Meat loaf or not. On one hand, there was the thing that he was most assuredly NOT a rock'n'roll prettyboy, he was from Texas, IIRC, & not disco, at that dreadful era when most everything was. On the other hand, there was something kinda "Eeeeuuwww !" about the whole schtick...

I'd rather drink poison than hear that one song again.:thumbsdn: Definately Eeeeeeeuuuuuuuwwwwww!

Then I guess I have your understanding, when I tell you that my wife's current musical playlist consists of Barry Manilow and Meatloaf, both in heavy rotation.

Sure explains a lot, doesn't it?

Then I guess I have your understanding, when I tell you that my wife's current musical playlist consists of Barry Manilow and Meatloaf, both in heavy rotation.

Sure explains a lot, doesn't it?
It would at least explain the hairstyle in your avatar. I'm assuming that's an accurate representation of the real thing? :scratch2:

Then I guess I have your understanding, when I tell you that my wife's current musical playlist consists of Barry Manilow and Meatloaf, both in heavy rotation.

Sure explains a lot, doesn't it?

She's a hell of a nice lady, Ern, but I'd be divorced in a Windsor minute....

STOP is the answer your looking for he would do anything for love BUT STOP

And you guys are whimps my stuck in the head image of Meatloaf is him and Tim Curry In "Rocky Horror Picture Show" which the wife just bought on DVD and we watched the other day.

OH MY WOULD I HAVE LIKED TO HAVE Susan Sarandon in 1975 when she was just a babe of 29 of course her boobs wer smaller then! howed that happen.

Sing Along w/Mitch..."Michael Rennie was ill The Day The Earth Stood Still..." Woops, wrong thread !....<grin> That song would have been even more awesome if Meatloaf had sung it...

I'm certain that Tentoze will be disappointed to hear that Jim Steinman got shot down when he originally suggested that this song should be 15 minutes long.

Perhaps if we read the lyrics that got cut from the song, it might help solve the "But I won't do that" puzzle. Well here goes nothing:

"I'll never forget the way you feel right now ..."
"I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight ..."
"I'll never do it better than I do it with you ..."
"I'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life ..."


Jimmy always said, "You know what? Nobody's gonna get it." And he was right.
-- Meat Loaf

Jim Steinman, in an interview, states that the definition of "that" is fully revealed in the song in each of the several verses in which it is mentioned. He intended the "that" reference to be a "puzzle" which would be ambiguous at first, but which could be solved by attentive listening to the lyrics.

he would do anything for love BUT STOP

Oh. I thought he was talking about an anal tongue dart.

Jim Steinman, in an interview, states that the definition of "that" is fully revealed in the song in each of the several verses in which it is mentioned. He intended the "that" reference to be a "puzzle" which would be ambiguous at first, but which could be solved by attentive listening to the lyrics.

Attentive listening huh... So that's why I never understood it.

And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, I won't do that
Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, oh I won't do that


So its obvious he means that he'll "never forget the way you feel right now..... no I won't do that"


ok........ I think I liked it more when I thought it was "I'll do anything for love but I won't do :yikes: THAT"

She's a hell of a nice lady, Ern, but I'd be divorced in a Windsor minute....
She has many other redeeming qualities...

...and I have the Almarro system, at the other end of the house.

I thought it meant he'd never go to Sears with her!:scratch2:


Alan

If you watched the Storytellers episode, you would see that this really is a stupid question. The "that" refers to the immediately preceding line in every case. For example, in the line where it says, "...But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way; And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, I won't do that...", he's saying that he would do anything for love, except forget the way [she] feels right now. And then:

But I'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that.

It's this one that makes it particularly hard to figure out:

But I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
Oh I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that

I think that one means that he won't forgive himself for love, but...ugh...it's really awkward English, to say the least.

I'll never forgive him for unleashing it on the world.

Jim "meatloaf" brickman may not have been good at brevity or clarity, but he had the market cornered on obtusity, pomposity and longwindedosity. So man words to say absolutely nothing at all ...

If you think Meat Loaf's pompous, try Steinman's solo album, "Bad for Good." Might be the world's first self-reviewing album title.

They've actually re-released about half of it as Meat Loaf songs on "Bat 2" and Bat 3." But try to picture Steinman's lyrics with a voice that is, shall we say, somewhat less operatic than Meat Loaf's. Not pretty, but one of those that's so bad it's kinda fun in a dumb way.