Favourite lyrics from a Meat song

Anonymous · 30 Jan 2004, 17:57

My favourite Meat Loaf songs are 'Dead Ringer For Love' (from 'Dead Ringer'), 'Forever Young' (from 'Couldn't Have Said It Better'), 'Special Girl' (from 'Bad Attitude') and 'Bat Out of Hell' but one song that I've listened to recently and only started to notice properly is 'Objects in the Rear View Mirror (May Appear Closer Than They Are), it is unbelievabley moving and very emotional, it was shown on the big screens at Sheffield before the show and thats when it hit me and one me and mate's favourite motto's now is, "If life is just a highway, then the sole is just a car!"

PanicLord · 30 Jan 2004, 20:43

My favourite lyrics of all time are from IGLHFBOU, where it goes

"When the screws are tightening, and the tears are falling, I can hear you crying out to be saved"

I think it is SO emotional and sung with such power and brilliant music that I just have to love it!

meat loaf is my god · 30 Jan 2004, 20:55

My Favorit lyric would have to be "Everyones going nowere slowly there all fighting for the chance to be last therse nothing going wrong with goin nowere babey but we should be going nowere fast" I dont why buts it the one lyric that stiks in my head lol

shadow1000001 · 30 Jan 2004, 23:47

My favorite is "We quiver when we touch. I can't believe I love you so much". It's an innocent lyric but it's so full of sexual heat

Maria

sherrie87 · 31 Jan 2004, 04:09

Along the same lines as Shadow's suggestion, a favorite of mine is:

"Come closer to me now/like we're sharing the same skin" add the imagery of that lyric to the little shudder that Meat does as he sings it on the Storytellers DVD- instant goosebumps every time!

Sherrie

rockfenris2005 · 31 Jan 2004, 06:28

"Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you"

For me, that's the greatest line of all time. It suggests deep loyalty, over-intensive emotion and commitment. It's the most profound and sacred image I've ever known.

castlesfallinsand · 31 Jan 2004, 07:00

"everytime i do it just alittle bit longer, everytime i dream its just alittle big stronger than real life"
i like this cause i daydream a lot. and sometimes i get so caught up in them that i forget what i'm actutally doing you know like driving or having a coversation with someone. :)

RSG · 31 Jan 2004, 08:37

Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer they are.

White of High · 31 Jan 2004, 11:29

To bleed or not to bleed...

OK! I know it's not Meat, it's Jim!!!

Sparky · 31 Jan 2004, 15:17

My favourite is from "Anything For Love": "And maybe I'm lonely, and that's all I'm qualified to be!"

meatwka · 31 Jan 2004, 17:45

I thin mines would have to be :
'And there aint no coupe de ville hiding in the bottom of a crackerjack box'
the Lyric is amazing because of the little comedy part of it aswell, great!!

heat · 31 Jan 2004, 23:47

God.... this is hard cos theres so many...

At the moment it's

'Drag her by the hair, take her back to your cave..'

and

'I wanna take you in the backseat now and slowly drive you home..'

DIZZY DRUMMER · 08 Feb 2004, 21:38

From "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste"

And one of these nights you're gonna show me that you already know.

There's a feast waiting for you and you've never even gotten a taste.

It's later than you think

And a kiss is a terrible thing to waste.

Surf's Up

And my body is burning like a naked wire

I wanna turn on the juice, I wanna fall in the fire

I'm gonna drown in the ocean in a bottomless sea

I wanna give you what I'm hoping you'll be giving to me

gerard359 · 08 Feb 2004, 22:14

The most important lyrics i have found are these "you shouldn't tremble when we touch there's no reason for these fears" Why???? Because it's true!! Don't we all tremble when we are near someone we feel we could love??

MasterEngineer · 08 Feb 2004, 23:20

"I'm brakin' out of my body.....and fly away.... like a bat outta heeeeeeeeeeeeell"

Who never felt like that before??

By the way: Its really good that this topic is not on the official Frank Zappa homepage... just remembering the lyrics from "Bobby Brown".. uhhh

evil nickname · 09 Feb 2004, 01:11

I've got an army style dog-tag hanging 'round my neck saying

"Breaking out of my body
And flying away
Like a Bat out of Hell"

Guess I must have a reason for that :)

other than that there's always

"Come on! Come on! And there'll be no turning back!
You are only killing time and it'll kill you right back!
Come on! Come on! It's time to burn up the fuse!
You got nothing to do and even less to lose!"

and on a final note: I know Meat does not sing these lines from "What You See Is What You Get", but they're so damn funny:

"You're not too skinny - not too fat
Loving you is where it's at!"

Di · 09 Feb 2004, 14:41

My current favorite is Heaven Can Wait.... but it can change daily.

These lyrics are just stunning though... and every time I listen to the song I catch something else in it's message. There is a live version with Meat in concert and Jim on piano in accompaniment that is so pure.... the first time I heard it I cried like mad.

Gorgeous song...

:)

Di

Heaven can wait
And a band of angels wrapped up in my heart
Will take me through the lonely night
Throught the cold of the day
And I know, I know
Heaven can wait
And all the gods come down here just to sing for me
And the melody's gonna make be fly
Without pain, without fear

Give me all of your dreams
And let me go alone and away
Give me all of your prayers to sing
And I'll turn the night into the skylight of day
I got a taste of paradise
I'm never gonna let it slip away
I got a taste of paradise
It's all I really need to make me stay-
Just like a child again

Heaven can wait
And all I got is time until the end of time
I won't look back
I won't look back
Let the altars shine

Skeleton · 09 Feb 2004, 14:51

It´s hard to choose ´couse there´s too many but I like this: I was so hypnotized by the smile in your eyes today.

That´s so nice.

Pudding · 09 Feb 2004, 21:30

I've always loved the lyrics from"I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us" proably one of my favourite Meat Loaf songs.

I can't stand to see it no more
The way you're living with a goddess but you treat her like a slave
And you can't hold her back anymore
She's like a dreamer in a dungeon or an angel in a cave

And I'll be closer to you now than any other boy
And you know that what I'm saying is true
You're gonna break her up and tear her down and fade her away
And then there's no telling what I'm gonna do

I'll make you pay for everything that you do
I'll make you pay for everything that you do

But if you give me your girl, and then you give me your trust
And if you give me till the end of the night
I'm gonna love her for both of us
I'm gonna give her everything you always wanted to give
I'm gonna love her for both of us
I'm gonna take her every moment that she wanted to live

I'll let her shine like a jewel in the crown of the holy sun
You turned her into a ghost but she'll be burning when the night is done
I'll let her shine like a jewel in the crown of the holy sun
You turned her into a ghost but she'll be burning when the night is done

You gotta give me your girl and your trust
I'm gonna love her for both of us

You can't hide away anymore
You had a chance but you blew it and you'll never get it back
And your holiness was never so pure
She needs a fire in the heart and not a stabbing in the back

When the screws are tightnin' and the tears are falling
I can hear her crying out to be saved
And like a bolt of lightning I go answer the call
But she's singing like a siren to me over the waves

I never wanted to take away your lover
Until I heard her crying out to be saved
I always thought of you as one of my brothers
But she's singing like a siren to me over the waves
Singing like a siren to me over the waves
There ain't no holding me down!

Pud:o]

YOFFIE · 10 Feb 2004, 09:04

For me it has to be:

'No in or out
No loss or doubt
No living with or doing without
Where money ain't the power king
And kindness is the most precious thing

Where Angels sing'

Absolutely heart breakingly beautiful

Kim

Gez · 10 Feb 2004, 21:24

Yoffie

meat loaf is my god · 10 Feb 2004, 22:45

Mine Would have To be "Speeding Up and Down The Spped Way On The Back Of ur Bike" From Bad Attitude

LostSoul · 11 Feb 2004, 01:41

If I had to choose ONE SONG it would be For Crying Out Loud!
What about ONE LINE from each album...

- BOOH
For Crying Out Loud ... for taking in the sun when I'm feeling so cold, for giving me a child when my body is old...

- DEAD RINGER
I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us ... when the screws are tightning and the tears are falling, I can hear her crying out to be saved...

- MIDNITE
If You Really Want To ... he broke your heart, he left you crying, but he did not set you free, and now you feel like you can never love again...

- BAD ATTITUDE
Surf's Up ... I wanna turn on the juice, I wanna fall in the fire, I'm gonna drown in the ocean in a bottomless sea...

- BLIND BEFORE I STOP
Rock 'N' Roll Hero ... I sold my soul for rock 'n' roll when it didn't cost a thing, stacks of scratched up 45'S and taught myself how to sing...

- BOOH II
I'd Do Anything For Love ... 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...

- WTTN
Original Sin ... there'll be hell to pay someday, so put it all on the bill, 'cause we'll always be paying, and paying until, we're beyond expiration, with a license to thrill...

- THE VERY BEST OF
A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste ... and one of these nights, you're gonna show me that you already know, there's a feast waiting for you, and you're never even gotton a taste...

- CHSIB
Testify ... every cut that heals reveals a scar that you can never hope to hide, all the pain that you restrain keeps building up deep inside...

Patricia
... and so many more...

RSG · 13 Feb 2004, 13:12

(It often changes for me, but right now its)

If life is just a highway, and the soul is just a car. Then Objects In the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

Its all good though

RoknRollJesus · 13 Feb 2004, 15:42

I agree with you RSG...mine changes almost daily but currently "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste" ...'We'll never be as young as we are right now' in particular.

jo

30 Jan 2004, 17:57	#1
Anonymous Guest Post Container Join Date: 02.04.2002 Posts: 496	Favourite lyrics from a Meat song My favourite Meat Loaf songs are 'Dead Ringer For Love' (from 'Dead Ringer'), 'Forever Young' (from 'Couldn't Have Said It Better'), 'Special Girl' (from 'Bad Attitude') and 'Bat Out of Hell' but one song that I've listened to recently and only started to notice properly is 'Objects in the Rear View Mirror (May Appear Closer Than They Are), it is unbelievabley moving and very emotional, it was shown on the big screens at Sheffield before the show and thats when it hit me and one me and mate's favourite motto's now is, "If life is just a highway, then the sole is just a car!"

13 Feb 2004, 13:12	#24
RSG Mega Loafer Join Date: 27.07.2003 Location: Canada Posts: 3,296	What are your favourite lyric or lyrics in a Meat song? (It often changes for me, but right now its) If life is just a highway, and the soul is just a car. Then Objects In the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are. Its all good though

30 Jan 2004, 20:43	#2
PanicLord Mega Loafer Join Date: 18.06.2003 Location: At The End Of The Line Posts: 2,652	My favourite lyrics of all time are from IGLHFBOU, where it goes "When the screws are tightening, and the tears are falling, I can hear you crying out to be saved" I think it is SO emotional and sung with such power and brilliant music that I just have to love it!

30 Jan 2004, 20:55	#3
meat loaf is my god Loafer Join Date: 19.01.2004 Location: worcester Posts: 94	My Favorit lyric would have to be "Everyones going nowere slowly there all fighting for the chance to be last therse nothing going wrong with goin nowere babey but we should be going nowere fast" I dont why buts it the one lyric that stiks in my head lol

30 Jan 2004, 23:47	#4
shadow1000001 Mega Loafer Join Date: 10.07.2003 Location: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada Posts: 2,580	My favorite is "We quiver when we touch. I can't believe I love you so much". It's an innocent lyric but it's so full of sexual heat Maria

31 Jan 2004, 04:09	#5
sherrie87 Mega Loafer Join Date: 20.02.2003 Location: Largo, FL Posts: 1,262	Along the same lines as Shadow's suggestion, a favorite of mine is: "Come closer to me now/like we're sharing the same skin" add the imagery of that lyric to the little shudder that Meat does as he sings it on the Storytellers DVD- instant goosebumps every time! Sherrie

31 Jan 2004, 06:28	#6
rockfenris2005 Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.02.2003 Location: Posts: 2,217	"Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven I'll come crawling on back to you" For me, that's the greatest line of all time. It suggests deep loyalty, over-intensive emotion and commitment. It's the most profound and sacred image I've ever known.

31 Jan 2004, 07:00	#7
castlesfallinsand Junior Loafer Join Date: 24.10.2003 Location: United States Posts: 26	"everytime i do it just alittle bit longer, everytime i dream its just alittle big stronger than real life" i like this cause i daydream a lot. and sometimes i get so caught up in them that i forget what i'm actutally doing you know like driving or having a coversation with someone. :)

31 Jan 2004, 08:37	#8
RSG Mega Loafer Join Date: 27.07.2003 Location: Canada Posts: 3,296	Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer they are.

31 Jan 2004, 11:29	#9
White of High Nature's Siegfried Join Date: 27.05.2002 Location: Budapest, Hungary Posts: 2,930	To bleed or not to bleed... OK! I know it's not Meat, it's Jim!!!

31 Jan 2004, 15:17	#10
Sparky Rookie Join Date: 19.01.2004 Location: Innsbruck, Austria Posts: 15	My favourite is from "Anything For Love": "And maybe I'm lonely, and that's all I'm qualified to be!"

31 Jan 2004, 17:45	#11
meatwka Senior Loafer Join Date: 21.04.2003 Location: edinburgh Posts: 121	I thin mines would have to be : 'And there aint no coupe de ville hiding in the bottom of a crackerjack box' the Lyric is amazing because of the little comedy part of it aswell, great!!

31 Jan 2004, 23:47	#12
heat Rampant Loafer... Join Date: 29.07.2002 Location: welshy wales Posts: 5,706	God.... this is hard cos theres so many... At the moment it's 'Drag her by the hair, take her back to your cave..' and 'I wanna take you in the backseat now and slowly drive you home..'

08 Feb 2004, 21:38	#13
DIZZY DRUMMER Always Ready For A Bang Join Date: 30.11.2003 Location: Left In The Dark .......... AGAIN Posts: 6,389	From "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste" And one of these nights you're gonna show me that you already know. There's a feast waiting for you and you've never even gotten a taste. It's later than you think And a kiss is a terrible thing to waste. Surf's Up And my body is burning like a naked wire I wanna turn on the juice, I wanna fall in the fire I'm gonna drown in the ocean in a bottomless sea I wanna give you what I'm hoping you'll be giving to me

08 Feb 2004, 22:14	#14
gerard359 Junior Loafer Join Date: 31.03.2003 Posts: 40	The most important lyrics i have found are these "you shouldn't tremble when we touch there's no reason for these fears" Why???? Because it's true!! Don't we all tremble when we are near someone we feel we could love??

08 Feb 2004, 23:20	#15
MasterEngineer Senior Loafer Join Date: 03.10.2003 Location: ...ask CC ;-) Posts: 141	"I'm brakin' out of my body.....and fly away.... like a bat outta heeeeeeeeeeeeell" Who never felt like that before?? By the way: Its really good that this topic is not on the official Frank Zappa homepage... just remembering the lyrics from "Bobby Brown".. uhhh

09 Feb 2004, 01:11	#16
evil nickname Guest Join Date: 19.04.2003 Posts: 2,238	I've got an army style dog-tag hanging 'round my neck saying "Breaking out of my body And flying away Like a Bat out of Hell" Guess I must have a reason for that :) other than that there's always "Come on! Come on! And there'll be no turning back! You are only killing time and it'll kill you right back! Come on! Come on! It's time to burn up the fuse! You got nothing to do and even less to lose!" and on a final note: I know Meat does not sing these lines from "What You See Is What You Get", but they're so damn funny: "You're not too skinny - not too fat Loving you is where it's at!"

09 Feb 2004, 14:41	#17
Di Super Loafer Join Date: 15.04.2003 Posts: 317	My current favorite is Heaven Can Wait.... but it can change daily. These lyrics are just stunning though... and every time I listen to the song I catch something else in it's message. There is a live version with Meat in concert and Jim on piano in accompaniment that is so pure.... the first time I heard it I cried like mad. Gorgeous song... :) Di Heaven can wait And a band of angels wrapped up in my heart Will take me through the lonely night Throught the cold of the day And I know, I know Heaven can wait And all the gods come down here just to sing for me And the melody's gonna make be fly Without pain, without fear Give me all of your dreams And let me go alone and away Give me all of your prayers to sing And I'll turn the night into the skylight of day I got a taste of paradise I'm never gonna let it slip away I got a taste of paradise It's all I really need to make me stay- Just like a child again Heaven can wait And all I got is time until the end of time I won't look back I won't look back Let the altars shine

09 Feb 2004, 14:51	#18
Skeleton Mega Loafer Join Date: 13.10.2003 Location: Grinning, Ducking & Running Posts: 3,668	It´s hard to choose ´couse there´s too many but I like this: I was so hypnotized by the smile in your eyes today. That´s so nice.

09 Feb 2004, 21:30	#19
Pudding I'm A Prize Fight Lover... Join Date: 22.10.2003 Location: New Zealand Posts: 5,532	I've always loved the lyrics from"I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us" proably one of my favourite Meat Loaf songs. I can't stand to see it no more The way you're living with a goddess but you treat her like a slave And you can't hold her back anymore She's like a dreamer in a dungeon or an angel in a cave And I'll be closer to you now than any other boy And you know that what I'm saying is true You're gonna break her up and tear her down and fade her away And then there's no telling what I'm gonna do I'll make you pay for everything that you do I'll make you pay for everything that you do But if you give me your girl, and then you give me your trust And if you give me till the end of the night I'm gonna love her for both of us I'm gonna give her everything you always wanted to give I'm gonna love her for both of us I'm gonna take her every moment that she wanted to live I'll let her shine like a jewel in the crown of the holy sun You turned her into a ghost but she'll be burning when the night is done I'll let her shine like a jewel in the crown of the holy sun You turned her into a ghost but she'll be burning when the night is done You gotta give me your girl and your trust I'm gonna love her for both of us You can't hide away anymore You had a chance but you blew it and you'll never get it back And your holiness was never so pure She needs a fire in the heart and not a stabbing in the back When the screws are tightnin' and the tears are falling I can hear her crying out to be saved And like a bolt of lightning I go answer the call But she's singing like a siren to me over the waves I never wanted to take away your lover Until I heard her crying out to be saved I always thought of you as one of my brothers But she's singing like a siren to me over the waves Singing like a siren to me over the waves There ain't no holding me down! Pud:o]

10 Feb 2004, 09:04	#20
YOFFIE Rookie Join Date: 26.11.2003 Location: Maidenhead, england Posts: 24	For me it has to be: 'No in or out No loss or doubt No living with or doing without Where money ain't the power king And kindness is the most precious thing Where Angels sing' Absolutely heart breakingly beautiful Kim

10 Feb 2004, 21:24	#21
Gez Knicker thief Join Date: 17.04.2003 Location: auch...not on the fence Posts: 5,633	Yoffie

10 Feb 2004, 22:45	#22
meat loaf is my god Loafer Join Date: 19.01.2004 Location: worcester Posts: 94	Mine Would have To be "Speeding Up and Down The Spped Way On The Back Of ur Bike" From Bad Attitude

11 Feb 2004, 01:41	#23
LostSoul Got metal? Join Date: 06.11.2003 Location: Switzerland Posts: 2,109	If I had to choose ONE SONG it would be For Crying Out Loud! What about ONE LINE from each album... - BOOH For Crying Out Loud ... for taking in the sun when I'm feeling so cold, for giving me a child when my body is old... - DEAD RINGER I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us ... when the screws are tightning and the tears are falling, I can hear her crying out to be saved... - MIDNITE If You Really Want To ... he broke your heart, he left you crying, but he did not set you free, and now you feel like you can never love again... - BAD ATTITUDE Surf's Up ... I wanna turn on the juice, I wanna fall in the fire, I'm gonna drown in the ocean in a bottomless sea... - BLIND BEFORE I STOP Rock 'N' Roll Hero ... I sold my soul for rock 'n' roll when it didn't cost a thing, stacks of scratched up 45'S and taught myself how to sing... - BOOH II I'd Do Anything For Love ... 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... - WTTN Original Sin ... there'll be hell to pay someday, so put it all on the bill, 'cause we'll always be paying, and paying until, we're beyond expiration, with a license to thrill... - THE VERY BEST OF A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste ... and one of these nights, you're gonna show me that you already know, there's a feast waiting for you, and you're never even gotton a taste... - CHSIB Testify ... every cut that heals reveals a scar that you can never hope to hide, all the pain that you restrain keeps building up deep inside... Patricia ... and so many more...

13 Feb 2004, 15:42	#25
RoknRollJesus Livin' La Vida Loafa! Join Date: 03.10.2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,529	I agree with you RSG...mine changes almost daily but currently "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste" ...'We'll never be as young as we are right now' in particular. jo