Jim Steinman

thumb|Like a bat out of HellI'll be gone when the morning comes... James Richard Steinman (November 1, 1947 – April 19, 2021) was an American composer, lyricist, record producer, and playwright. Quotes thumb|I've been called over the top. How silly. If you don't go over the top, you can't see what's on the other side. I have travelled across the universe through the years to find her. Sometimes going all the way is just a start... Opening caption to the video for "I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)" (1993) I've been called over the top. How silly. If you don't go over the top, you can't see what's on the other side. As quoted in "The Bat out of Hell" by Jonathan Karp in The Washington Post (26 January 26 1997) I didn't write it for anyone but Bonnie. On the song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" having been written specifically for Bonnie Tyler, countering claims he had or would have written it for Meat Loaf; as quoted in Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Larger than Life Story of Meat Loaf (2017) by Mick Wall, p. 270 Bat out of Hell (1977) Meat Loaf album thumb|It never felt so good, it never felt so rightAnd we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife. Bat out of Hell (song) The sirens are screaming and the fires are howlingWay down in the valley tonight.There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eyeAnd a blade shining oh so bright.There's evil in the airAnd there's thunder in the skyAnd a killer's on the bloodshot streets. Oh baby you're the only thing in this whole worldThat's pure and good and rightAnd wherever you are and wherever you goThere's always gonna be some light. Like a bat out of HellI'll be gone when the morning comes.But when the day is doneAnd the sun goes downAnd the moonlight's shining throughThen like a sinner before the gates of heavenI'll come crawling on back to you. Nothing ever grows in this rotten old holeAnd everything is stunted and lostAnd nothing really rocks and nothing really rollsAnd nothing's ever worth the cost. And I know that I'm damned if I never get outAnd maybe I'm damned if I doBut with every other beat I got left in my heartYou know I'd rather be damned with you. Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sunAll torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bikeAnd I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bellAnd the last thing I see is my heart,Still beating,Breaking out of my bodyAnd flying awayLike a bat out of Hell. Paradise by the Dashboard Light I never had a girlLooking any better than you didAnd all the kids at schoolThey were wishing they were me that night. It never felt so good, it never felt so rightAnd we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife. Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark nightI can see paradise by the dashboard light. Ain't no doubt about itWe were doubly blessedCause we were barely seventeenAnd we were barely dressed. Stop right there!I gotta know right now!Before we go any further — Do you love me?Will you love me forever? Baby, baby let me sleep on itLet me sleep on itAnd I'll give you my answer in the morning... So now I'm praying for the end of timeTo hurry up and arriveCause if I gotta spend another minute with youI don't think that I can really survive.I'll never break my promise or forget my vowBut God only knows what I can do right now.I'm praying for the end of timeIt's all that I can doPraying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you! Faster Than The Speed of Night (1983) Bonnie Tyler album Let me show you how to drive me crazy,Let me show you how to make me feel so good,Let me show you how to take me to the edge of the stars and back again.You've gotta show me how to drive you crazy,You've gotta show me all the things you wanna happen to you,We've gotta tell each other everything, we always wanted someone to do. "Faster Than The Speed Of Night" It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night. "Faster Than The Speed Of Night" Total Eclipse of the Heart thumb|Forever's gonna start tonight thumb|Nothing I can say A total eclipse of the heart. Turn around Every now and then I get a little bit lonely And you're never coming 'round Turn around Every now and then I get a little bit tired Of listening to the sound of my tears Turn around Every now and then I get a little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by. Turn around Every now and then I get a little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes.Turn around bright eyes. Every now and then I fall apart. And I need you now tonight And I need you more than ever And if you only hold me tight We'll be holding on forever And we'll only be making it right 'Cause we'll never be wrong Together we can take it to the end of the line Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time (all of the time) I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks. I really need you tonight Forever's gonna start tonight (Forever's gonna start tonight) Once upon a time I was falling in love But now I'm only falling apart There's nothing I can do A total eclipse of the heart Once upon a time there was light in my life But now there's only love in the dark Nothing I can say A total eclipse of the heart.. Making Love out of Nothing at All (1983) A reworking of some of Steinman's music for the film A Small Circle of Friends (1980); first released as a song by Air Supply I know just how to fake it And I know just how to scheme I know just when to face the truth And then I know just when to dream. And I know just where to touch you And I know just what to prove I know when to pull you closer And I know when to let you loose.And I know the night is fading And I know the time's gonna fly And I'm never gonna tell you everything I gotta tell you But I know I've got to give it a try.And I know the roads to riches And I know the ways to fame I know all the rules and then I know how to break'em And then I always know the name of the gameBut I don't know how to leave you And I'll never let you fall And I don't know how you do it Making love out of nothing at all. Every time I see you, all the rays of the sun Are streaming through the waves in your hair And every star in the sky is taking aim at your eyes Like a spotlight. You can take the darkness from the deep of the night And turn it to a beacon burning endlessly bright I gotta follow it 'cause everything I know Well, it's nothing 'till I give it to you. I'm never gonna make it without you Do you really wanna see me crawl ? And I'm never gonna make it like you do Making love out of nothing at all. Bad for Good (1981) thumb| I'm never gonna be what I should And you think that I'll be bad for just a little while But I know that I'll be bad for good. Many of the songs on this album were later performed by Meat Loaf on either Bat out of Hell II or Bat out of Hell III and by other artists. The sea is whipping the sky The sky is whipping the sea You can hide away forever from the storm But you'll never hide away from me. "Bad for Good" The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the dark And we may lose everything in the wind But the Northern Lights are burning And they're giving off sparks. "Bad for Good" I know that I'm gonna be like this forever I'm never gonna be what I should And you think that I'll be bad for just a little while But I know that I'll be bad for good. "Bad for Good" For the good of believing in a life after birth For the good of your body so bright For the good of the search for some heaven on earth For the good of one hell of a night, for the good of one hell of a night. "Bad for Good" Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993) thumb| And we’ll never be as young as we are right now. I'll never forget the way you feel right now —Oh no — no way —I would do anything for loveBut I won't do that. "I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)" But it was long ago and it was far away,Oh god, it seems so very far.And if life is just a highwayThen the soul is just a car.And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are. "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" And we’ll never be as young as we are right now “Lost Boys And Golden Girls”. External links Brief biography at JimSteinman.com Category:Composers from the United States Category:Music producers from the United States Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:Singer-songwriters from the United States Category:Pianists from the United States Category:Jews from the United States Category:1947 births Category:2021 deaths Category:People from New York City