rx5: meat loaf aday

Somewhere in the ether world is someone with far, far, too much time on their hands.

(Yes, I just referenced a 1981 song by Styx, on their "Paradise Theater" album. That may lead to an incorrect assumption concerning the song I'll be highlighting this day from Meat Loaf's large repertoire. Kindly look more closely at the images above; those are the lyrics of interest on this Tuesday.)

My dear Rogue posted the above meme on his fb page a few days ago.

I was not only impressed at the time the meme designer took to input all that data, but also at the collection of artworks amassed to drive the lyrics home.

I recognize some of the paintings, but could not give their names, nor those of the painters.

Still, I know enough to wonder what coincidences had to fall into place - i.e., what worlds had to collide - that a person trained in classical art, of such an age to have felt a kinship with "Bat Out Of Hell" when it came out 45 years ago, would be moved enough by Meat Loaf's death to have composed this homage.

Well done, whoever you are, and thanks, Joe, for sharing the meme.

Thanks also to Elvis Presley and his song, "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You", without which Jim Steinman would have never written this one.

*****

Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

Baby we can talk all night

but that ain't getting us nowhere

I told you everything I possibly can

There's nothing left inside of here

And maybe you can cry all night

But that'll never change the way that I feel

The snow is really piling up outside

I wish you wouldn't make me leave here

I poured it on and I poured it out

I tried to show you just how much I care

I'm tired of words 

and I'm too hoarse to shout

But you've been cold 

to me so long

I'm crying icicles instead of tears

And all I can do

is keep on telling you

I want you

I need you

But - there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you

Now don't be sad

(don't be sad)

'Cause two out of three ain't bad

Now don't be sad

'Cause two out of three ain't bad

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach

You'll never drill for oil on a city street

I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks

But there ain't no Coupe de Ville 

hiding at the bottom 

of a Cracker Jack box

I can't lie

I can't tell you that I'm something that I'm not

no matter how I try

I'll never be able

to give you something

something that I just haven't got

There's only one girl that I will ever love

and that was

so many years

ago

And though I know I'll never get her 

out of my heart

She never loved me back

Oooh I know

I remember how she left me on a stormy night

She kissed me and got out of our bed

And though I pleaded

and I begged her

not to walk out that door

She packed her bags and turned right away

 

And she kept on telling me

She kept on telling me

She kept on

telling

me

I want you

I need you

But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you

Now don't be sad

(don't be sad)

'Cause two out of three ain't bad

I want you

I need you

But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you

Now don't be sad

(don't be sad)

'Cause two out of three ain't bad

Don't be sad

'Cause two out of three ain't bad

 

Baby we can talk all night

but that ain't getting us nowhere