3195
I don’t think that I can really survive
[Man! We seem to be online at the same time a lot today!]
3196
I’ll never break my promise or forget my vow
[Yeah, I noticed that too!]
3197
But god only knows what I can do right now
3198
I’m praying for the end of time
3199
It’s all that I can do (oh oh oh)
3200
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my life with you.
3201
It was long ago and it was far away
3202
And it was so much better that it is today
3203
It was long ago and it was far away (it never felt so good, it never felt so right)
3204
And it was so much better that it is today (and we were glowing like, a metal on the edge of a knife)
3205
Repeat until fade-out. Okay, where do we go from here?
3206
[Glad that’s over!]
3207
[Never realized how many of those lines repeat.]
3209
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday,
3210
The regular crowd shuffles in,
and spoons, with regard to the repetitious lyrics from the previous count-down, watch the performance video here:
When you’ve got that sort of action going on on-stage, you don’t need to clutter up your mind with all sorts of complicated lyrics!
-“BB”-
3211
There’s an old man sittin’ next to me
[Actually, I know the song quite well, having done it at karaoke, many times, with at least one girl I was dating in real life. But of course, we were acting, like Meat Loaf does with Karla De Vito in the video. But I never read the lyrics like we had to do for this. The Phil Rizzuto commentary continues to be priceless though, and my girlfriend and I had a lot of fun with that.]
3212
Makin’ love to his tonic and gin.
[Finally, a song that I actually like, with lyrics that make sense on their own.]
3213
He says, "Son, can you play me a memory?
[It came on my car radio yesterday, and I remember thinking, “That would be a good one for Count to a Million.”]
3214
I’m not really sure how it goes
[We can’t do the stuff I hear on my car radio.]