Meat Loaf — Going All the Way is Just the Start (feat. Ellen Foley and Karla DeVito)

1 Going All the Way is Just the Start (feat. Ellen Foley and Karla DeVito) 4:44 Jim Steinman

Digital single. While there is an 4:20 radio edit available on iTunes, this page follows the slightly longer Rolling Stone edit.

Going All the Way is Just the Start (feat. Ellen Foley and Karla DeVito)

Meat Loaf Sometimes it’s the night
And the way it seems to cry
And whisper terrifying secrets in your ear

Sometimes it’s the day
And the sun has got no mercy
Lighting up and burning everything that’s in its way

There are times I’ve gotta run
Times I’ve gotta hide
Things I’ve left undone
Things I’ve cast aside
So many things to try
So many things denied

If I ever tell you the truth I’d swear you would leave me
I need the proof that you would believe me

Karla DeVito
You think I fly like an angel without any tears
Higher and higher, above the world and all its fears

Meat Loaf, Karla & Ellen Foley We always seem so much braver than we ever are
We always dream we seem braver but we never are
Karla & Ellen Let’s run away
Let’s go so far …

Meat Loaf There are secrets I never can tell
There are shadows of darkness and heaven
There are so many suburbs of hell
And their hours are 24/7

There are so many wounds you can’t heal
So many nightmares are turning too real
So much of paradise lost and you added the cost
But there’s nothing to be sorry for
Now we can feel so much more
Now we can be loving you you
Nothing that we’re scared to do

All We always seem so much braver than we ever are
We always dream we’d seem braver but we never are
Let’s run away
Let’s go too far

Ellen Say a prayer for those who crawl
Say a prayer for those who run
Say a prayer so all and all
There’s a better life to come

(we always dream we’d be braver but we never are …)

Karla
Say a prayer for all the lost
Say a prayer for the unborn
Say a prayer for all the young
It takes a fire to keep them warm

Meat Loaf & Karla Say a prayer to all the gods
Some are near and some are far
Say a prayer to all the gods
To make us braver than we are

Meat Loaf & Ellen How far is too far baby?
Come on and take me, take me!
We’re crusaders of the heart
And going all the way is just the start

Karla The crusaders of the heart

There’s no such thing as too far
I’ve got to be where you are
Going all the way is just a start

Karla The crusaders of the heart

Say a prayer to all the gods
Some are near and some are far
Say a prayer to all the gods
To make us braver than we are

Say a prayer to all the gods
Some are near and some are far
Say a prayer to all the gods
To make us braver than we are …

Written by Jim Steinman