When the night comes - the day is done, moonlight shining, he comes crawling back to his bike to ride (dancing through the night, riding twisty roads, a dangerous activity at night). gone like a bat out of hell, which is also metaphor for his short and shortened life). He doesn't ride in the day (when the sun comes up. The only thing that's good and pure in his life is his love for his motorcycle. He sees himself as a killer on the bloodshot streets - nice image - and then describes himself as a young boy foaming in the heat (not so nice an image). I guess I could be convinced the protagonist killed someone at the beginning, a la "The Outsiders", but honestly, to me, it's more dramatic scene-setting than recounting the events off-screen. The machine fills the role for him, because of his desperation. If you think it's a girl he's singing to, it's his motorcycle. General CommentSonganalyst pretty much sums it for me.įolk, there is no girl in the song.
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He writes that way because he knows how to give his market what it wants.īat Out of Hell is a great song, but unless you're aged 17 and an impressionable biker yourself, you'll take it with a pinch of salt. Note also the way he writes for his market! It's all bikes, sex and rebelliousness, and don't get me wrong, those things are great, but if you think Steinman writes like that because that's who he is, forget it. It's quite clear that Steinman is just stringing together various songwriting techniques, and should not be taken too seriously. For Crying Out Loud (meaning "for Pete's sake" or "for crying out with passion"), Left in the Dark (meaning "left without light" or "left uninformed"), You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (read it and see). Another of his techniques is to start with a phrase that has two meanings and write a whole song around it, e.g. Steinman uses some pretty transparent techniques for his songwriting, such as the constant religious references to try to make things sound more dramatic and grand - sinner, gates of heaven, pure and good and right, hell, pit, tolling a bell.
Personally I don't think Jim Steinman or Meat Loaf are sophisticated enough to write songs with hidden meanings, or even non-obvious meanings. General CommentI love this song too, but I think it's possible to over-analyse about it. Oh, like a bat out of hell (I'll be gone when the morning comes) Then I'm down in the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bikeĪnd I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bellĪnd the last thing I see is my heart, still beating Then I'm down at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun Well, I can see myself tearing up the road, fasterĪnd no one's gonna stop me now, I'm gonna make my escapeĪnd I never see the sudden curve 'til it's way too late Gotta be damned, you know I want to be damned
Well, if I gotta be damned, you know I want to be damned Well I know that I'm damned if I never get outīut with every other beat I've got left in my heart Nothing ever grows in this rotting old holeĪnd nothing really rocks, and nothing really rolls When the metal is hot, and the engine is hungry I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram Then like a sinner before the gates of Heaven When the night is over, like a bat out of hell Like a bat out of hell, I'll be gone when the morning comes So we gotta make the most of our one night together Oh, baby you're the only thing in this whole worldīut I gotta get out, I gotta break it out now Oh, I swear I saw a young boy down in the gutter There's evil in the air and there's thunder in the skyĪnd down in the tunnels where the deadly are rising There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye The sirens are screaming, and the fires are howling
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