Everything Louder Than Everything Else

Music and lyrics by Jim Steinman. Recorded by Meat Loaf on the album Bat Out Of Hell II.

I know that I will never be politically correct

And I don't give a damn about my lack of etiquette.

As far as I'm concerned, the world could still be flat,

And if the thrill is gone, then it's time to take it back,

If the thrill is gone, then it's time to take it back.

Who am I? Why am I here?

Forget the questions, someone gimme another beer!

What's the meaning of life? What's the meaning of it all?

You gotta learn to dance before you learn to crawl,

You gotta learn to dance before you learn to crawl!

So sign up all you raw recruits,

Throw away those designer suits.

You got your weapons cocked, your targets in your sights.

There's a party raging somewhere in the world,

You gotta serve your country, gotta service your girl.

You're all enlisted in the armies of the night.

And I ain't in it for the power

And I ain't in it for my health.

Ia in't in it for the glory of anything at all

And I sure ain't in it for the wealth.

But I'm in it 'til it's over and I just can't stop,

If you wanna get it done,

You gotta do it yourself.

And I like my music like I like my life!

Everything louder than everything else!

Wasted! Youth!

They got a file on me and it's a mile long

And they say that they got all of the proof

That I'm just another case of arrested development

And just another wasted youth.

They say that I'm in need of some radical discipline,

They say I gotta face the truth,

That I'm just another case of arrested development

And just another wasted youth.

They say I'm wild and I'm reckless,

I should be acting my age,

I'm an impressionable child in a tumultuous world

And they say I'm at a difficult stage.

But it seems to me to the contrary

Of all the crap they're gonna put on the page

That a wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age!

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age!

(Louder, louder, louder, louder, louder, louder, louder….)

If you want my views of history then there's something you should know:

The three men I admire most are Curley, Larry and Mo.

If you don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past,

And if they say the thrill is gone, then it's time to take it back,

If the thrill is gone, then it's time to take it back!

So sign up all you raw recruits,

Throw away those two-bit suits,

You got your weapons cocked, your targets in your sights.

There's a party raging somewhere in the world,

You gotta serve your country, gotta service your girl

You're all inducted in the armies of the night.

And I ain't in it for the power,

And I ain't in it for my health,

I' ain't in it for the glory of anything at all

And I sure ain't in it for the wealth.

But I'm in it 'til it's over and I just can't stop,

If you wanna get it done, you gotta fight for yourself

And I like my music like I like my life:

Everything louder than everything else!

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