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by Meat Loaf


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The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling
     
Way down in the valley tonight
                                 
There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
       
And a blade shining oh so bright

     
                                     
There's evil in the air and there's thunder in the sky
                               
And a killer's on the bloodshot streets
                                    
Oh and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising
      
Oh I swear I saw a young boy
 
Down in the gutter, he was starting to foam in the heat


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Oh Baby, you're the only thing in this whole world 
                       
That's pure and good and right
                              
And wherever you are and wherever you go
                           
There's always gonna be some light


       
But I gotta get out
         
I gotta break it out now
                          
Before the final crack of dawn
                                   
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
           
When it's over you know

We'll both be so alone


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Like a bat out of hell
                                
I'll be gone when the morning comes

When the night is over
                                  
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone


        
Like a bat out of hell 
                            
I'll be gone when the morning comes
               
       But when the day is done
         
And the sun goes down
                          
And moonlight's shining through


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


                                 
I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
      
On a silver black phantom bike
                               
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry
          
And we're all about to see the light


                           
Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole
                         
Everything is stunted and lost
            
And nothing really rocks
     
And nothing really rolls 
                             
And nothing's ever worth the cost


                              
And I know that I'm damned if I never get out
                         
And maybe I'm damned if I do
                              
But with every other beat I got left in my heart
                                 
You know I'd rather be damned with you


                                
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
                               
Dancing through the night with you
                                 
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
                           
Gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
                                            
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
                   
Dancing through the night
                   
Dancing through the night
                             
Dancing through the night with you


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Oh Baby, you're the only thing in this whole world 
                         
That's pure and good and right
                           
And wherever you are and wherever you go 
                           
There's always gonna be some light 

                             
But I gotta get out, I gotta break it out now 
                         
Before the final crack of dawn 
                            
So we gotta make the most of our one night together 
               
When it's over you know 

We'll both be so alone 


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Like a bat out of hell 
                                
I'll be gone when the morning comes 

When the night is over 
                                     
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone 

        
Like a bat out of hell 
                          
I'll be gone when the morning comes 
               
       But when the day is done
         
And the sun goes down 
                               
And moonlight's shining through 


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


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I can see myself tearing up the road 
                     
Faster than any  other boy has ever gone 
                              
          And my skin is raw but my soul is ripe 

No one's gonna stop me now 
                 
I gotta make my escape 
                          
But I can't stop thinking of you 
                                                 
And I never see the sudden curve until it's way too late 


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I never see the sudden curve till it's way too late


                                                  
Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun 
                                        
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike 
                                             
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell 
                             
And the last thing I see is my heart 
       
Still beating 
                                  
Breaking out of my body and flyin away 
                       
Like a bat out of hell 


                                                 
Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun 
                                       
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike 
                                              
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell 
                            
And the last thing I see is my heart 
 
Still beating 

Still beating 
                           
Breaking out of my body and flyin away 

Like a bat out of hell 


             
                 Like a bat out of hell 


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