# Anything for love?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 17, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831 "2004-06-17T07:07:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@wenonahbone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wenonahbone)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/1 "2004-06-17T07:07:26Z")
In Meatloaf’s song, _I Would Do Anything For Love_, what is “but I won’t do that”?
---
### Author:  [@Sisyphus\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sisyphus_Stone)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/2 "2004-06-17T09:52:43Z")
Meatloaf is a truckdriver from Texas with tattoos on his tatts?
And, no, I won’t do that. For love. Never. Just toss me the ‘l’ word and that’s that. And I won’t do that.
---
### Author:  [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/3 "2004-06-17T09:56:40Z")
From the lyrics, emphasis mine:
Girl : I know the territory - I’ve been around,
It’ll all turn to dust and we’ll all fall down,
Sooner or later you’ll be screwing around.
Meat Loaf: I wont do\*\*\* that!\*\*\*
---
### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/4 "2004-06-17T10:30:06Z")
also from the lyrics
Girl: After a while you’ll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer’s night fling
And you’ll see that it’s time to move on
Meat Loaf: I won’t do that
---
### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/5 "2004-06-17T15:16:55Z")
Diet?
---
### Author:  [@bauble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bauble)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/6 "2004-06-17T16:17:02Z")
I seem to recall an interview with Mr. Loaf where he said that **that** refers to whatever that particular verse was talking about (“forget the way you feel right now”, “never forgive myself if we don’t go all the way tonight”, “I’ll never do it better than I do it with you”, “screwing around”). He also seemed a bit preturbed that not everyone figured that out.
---
### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/7 "2004-06-17T20:45:18Z")
Spend 25 years wondering about the lyrics to a pop song?
---
### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/8 "2004-06-17T20:47:21Z")
Perhaps he was speaking of the pompitous of love.
---
### Author:  [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/9 "2004-06-17T21:15:05Z")
Rent _Spice World_. Meatloaf has a small but pivotal role, and you learn exactly what _that_ is that he won’t do.
---
### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/10 "2004-06-17T21:24:35Z")
Anal?
---
### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/11 "2004-06-17T21:35:50Z")
Pay a lot for his muffler?
---
### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/12 "2004-06-18T00:00:20Z")
Eat quiche?
(I think he actually said this in a radio interview once.)
---
### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/13 "2004-06-18T03:45:51Z")
Trivia item:
Dana Patrick, the babe from the video, has a brief non-speaking role in the famous Seinfeld “Man-hands” ep. (I think the title was “Bizarro Jerry.”)
---
### Author:  [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-for-love/250831/14 "2004-06-18T10:11:12Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#):
>
> Diet?
I would eat _anything_ for lunch–
But I won’t eat… actually, yes I will.