the original 1988 pandoras box version of the song clocks in at 8 mins 22 secs. jim steinman is known for hating his songs being edited or cut down to fit onto an album or to get radio play. lets hope songs like "bad for good" and "the future aint what it used to be" are not also cut to fit. could this be where the much documented problems between him and meat lie. i could see jim pushing for all his songs to be recorded in their former glory ( my preference ) and a double disc issued. hence "loving you is a dirty job" and "making love out of nothing at all" are sacraficed for shorter sixx/child compositions. probably why jim was to sue for the bat title. a plausible theory. if this is meats last album then not recording these songs is an oppertunity lost forever, and who knows what else jim had up his sleeve.
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