I was driving home today and Meatloaf’s “Anything for Love” came on and I swear the words just started changing on their own….
I’m sorry. (I always am).
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And I would do anything for words
I’d run right into hell and back
I would do anything for words
I’d never blow deadline and that’s a fact
But I’ll never forget the way it feels right now
Oh no, oh god
And I would do anything for words
Oh I would do anything for words
I would do anything for words, but I won’t do that
No, I won’t do that
Some days it don’t come easy
Some days it don’t come hard
Some days it don’t come at all, and these are the days that never end
Some nights you’re breathing fire
Some nights you’re stuck in ice
Some nights the words come like nothing I’ve ever seen before or will again
Maybe I’m crazy, but it’s crazy and it’s true
I know I can write this, no-one else can write this thing through
As long as the pages are turning
As long as the plots are churning
As long as HEAs are coming true
You’d better believe it, that I would do
Anything for words
Oh I would do anything for words
Oh I would do anything for words, but I won’t do that
No, I won’t do that
I would do anything for words
Anything that will make it work, but I just won’t do that
I would do anything for words
Anything that will make it work, but I just won’t do
Some days I pray for silence
Some days I pray for soul
Some days I just pray to the gods of ink and pens, put me on a roll
Maybe I’m lonely, that’s all I’m qualified to be
That’s just one and only, the one and only promise I can keep
As long as the pages are turning
As long as the plots are churning
As long as my themes are coming through
You’d better believe it, that I would do
Anything for words
And you know it’s true and that’s a fact
I would do anything for words, and there’ll never be no turning back
But I’ll never do it better than I did it before, so long, so long
I would do anything for words
Oh, I would do anything for words
I would do anything for words, but I won’t do that
No, no, no, I won’t do that
Will you borrow some plot? will you learn some trick?
Will you give me what I’m craving, some new-written fic?
Will you make us all a little less cold?
I can do that
I can do that
Will you cater to every fantasy we’ve got?
Will you feed the tropes, get us all hot?
Will you show us places we’ve never known?
I can do that
Oh no, I can do that
We know the territory, we’ve been around
It’ll all turn to dust and plots all fall down
Sooner or later you’ll be plagiarizing
I won’t do that
No, I won’t do that
Anything for words
But I won’t do that