Then Like a Sinner Before the Gates of Heaven...

 

I'll come crawling home back to you!

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When my skin is raw, but my soul is right, and no one's gonna stop me now, I'm gonna make my stay....

but I never seen the sudden curve til it's way too late!

And I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in a blazing sun,  torn and twisted at the foot of burning bike... and I think somebuddy somewhere must be tolling a bell.  And the last thing I see is my heart, still beating~!, breaking out of my body and flying away...

Like a Bat Out of Hell!

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1978

"Well it was long ago, and it was far away, and it was so much better than it is today..."

RIP Mr. Meat Loaf.  With Jim Steinman, he created a Gen X childhood masterpiece.  Real writing, real people, Steinman wrote the female parts as good as the male.

Bob Dylan had noting on those lyrics, really.

Folk vs. reality rock...

"Again, will he offer me his hunger?  And will he starve without me?  And does he love me?" Yes.  

"On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?" Yes.  "I bet you say that to all the boys..."

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Lol.  Keeping it real.

He's not dead. The art lives on.  Turn it up tonight!

ADDED:  

I was damned, oh but you were saved

and I never knew how enslaved I was

kneeling in the chains of my master....

..."I'm in the middle of nowhere

Near the end of the line

But there's a boat out there somewhere waiting

And there's a tankful of time...

Oh give me just another moment

To see the light of the day

And take me to another land

where I don't have to stay...

And I'm gonna need somebody

to make me feel like you do

And I will receive somebody

with open arms, open eyes...

Open up the sky and let the planet

that I love shine through!

...

For pulling me away when I'm starting to fall, for revving me up when I'm starting to stall...

For taking and for giving and for keeping me sane,

for praying for my future in the days that remain,

oh Lord, for that, I hold you...

Oh but most of all?  For crying out loud?

For that, I love you.

Kinda ironic: they're saying Meat Loaf died of Covid, the bat disease.  

Just like Prince died of drugs in his home on the floor outside his elevator shaft.  "If the elevator tries to bring you down, punch a higher floor!"   

Meat Loaf, Prince, Michael Jackson, George Michael... they don't last long in body, the most talented ones, do they?