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A ’70s Classic

Featured on Meat Loaf’s magnum opus “Bat Out Of Hell,” “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” only peaked at #39 on the US Billboard Hot 100 but it was certified platinum by the RIAA and remains a staple in classic rock radio stations.

Like all the other songs on Meat Loaf’s stunning debut album, this was written by Jim Steinman. Clocking in at over eight minutes, it’s mostly known for its unique structure. Also, there’s a 5:32 version released in some countries. Interestingly, Meat Loaf once revealed on VH1 Storytellers that it was originally intended to go on for 27 minutes!

Speaking about the track, Steinman said that his aim was to write “the ultimate car/sex song in which everything goes horribly wrong in the end.”

In the first part, the two characters reminisce about their days as a young couple who are “barely seventeen.” A baseball broadcast can be heard before the second part wherein the girl stops him and will only go further if he promises to love her, marry her, never leave her, and make her happy for the rest of his life. He asks to give her the answer in the morning but since she doesn’t give in, he had no choice but to promise to his god and his mother’s grave that he will love her “to the end of time.”

And in the third part, their marriage is on the rocks with the boy “praying for the end of time” because he “couldn’t take it any longer.” During the live performances of this song, Meat Loaf and Karla DeVito would conclude the song with a spoken-word epilogue – an argument about who gets to keep what after the divorce.

Tagged: Cars and Driving | Songs that Tell a Story | Sex[suggest]

Song Released: 1978

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Paradise by the Dashboard Light Lyrics

BOY:
I remember every little thing
As if it happened only yesterday
Parking by the lake
And there was not another car in sight
And I never had a girl
Looking any better than you did
And all the kids at school
They were wishing...

anonymous
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Nov 27th 2014report
Come on guys, ya got the hot girl in the front seat of the car and all you can see of her is by the weak dashboard light...first a kiss...1st base, then a breast or two, 2nd base, and then a hand in her panties, 3rd base, and all this by the poor weak dashboard light. When he is finally gonna get the home run, intercourse, she adds the caveat that he has to love her til the end of time. Well spermicidal toxicidity builds in his brain and loins and he makes the promise and gets the whole package...until the end of time.
Hard-on gone, by the light of day arriving, boy the end of time is long time to wait...and he is waiting.
Great song of sexual ironies for those of us who hard to struggle in front seats with one handed bra releases... and a knock out singing performance by his female partner!
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Aug 13th 2014report
He is sitting in the car and most people miss this part: Paradise is what he sees when he looks down at her, the home run, the red snapper...for him being in there is Paradise, that's where he wants to go
The baseball talks about first base etc. these are euphemisms for kissing, fondling etc.
She stops him going all the way, until he promises to 'love her till the end of time' I guess a euphemism for marriage.
In other words; she has him by the goolies with a nutcracker!
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Sep 11th 2011report
a young man trying to get his way with a girl in his car. when she stops him he has to declare his undying love for her to get what he wants. years later he wishes he hadnt and cant wait to get rid of her.

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