Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell Chords & Tabs

Bat Out of Hell
I know there are other versions, but none this complete or accurate.
It's useful to follow it with the recording first to see how it all
works out. I assure you that it's all here.

Eb | F  Eb | F  Eb |  

| Ab/F  Eb/F  Bb/F  F  | x16 | Ab/F Eb/F Bb/F Ab/F Eb/F Bb/F | x2 

| F Eb F Eb F Eb F Eb | x2 | F / / Ab | Eb / / Bb | x11 | Eb | Eb |

| F | C | Bb | / | F | C | Bb | / || F | Bb/F / / Eb | F | Bb/F / / Eb |


(Eb)  F                            Bb/F
  The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling
    F                        
Way down in the valley tonight
  Eb      F                         Am
There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
      Bb
And a blade shining oh so bright
    
        F                           C
There's evil in the air and there's thunder in the sky
      Dm                   C    Bb
And a killer's on the bloodshot streets
       F                            C
Oh and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising
     Dm
Oh I swear I saw a young boy
Bb/D                                               C  | Bb/C | C |
Down in the gutter, he was starting to foam in the heat

Pre-Chorus:
   Bb                             C               
Oh Baby, you're the only thing in this whole world 
       F                 Bb
That's pure and good and right
                             C
And wherever you are and wherever you go
        Bb           C       F
There's always gonna be some light

      Bb
But I gotta get out
        C
I gotta break it out now
  Dm                      Bb
Before the final crack of dawn
      F                          C
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
          Bb
When it's over you know
                   C | Bb/C | C | / ||
We'll both be so alone

Chorus:
       F 
Like a bat out of hell
        Bb                    F    | / |
I'll be gone when the morning comes
     F
When the night is over
       Am                      Bb   Am   Gm  | / |
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone


       F
Like a bat out of hell 
        C                     Bb   | Bb C 
I'll be gone when the morning comes
Dm    C/E      F
  But when the day is done
        C
And the sun goes down
    Bb  Dm/A    Bb/G Bb/F Gm     Am Bb | C
And moonlight's shin-ing  through


(C)         F        Am/E     Dm       F/C
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
          Bb          Gm/A    Gm7 | / | Bb/D / C/E / | Bb/D / C/E |
I'll come crawling on back to you

    F                            Bb
I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
     F
On a silver black phantom bike
         F                    Am
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry
          Bb
And we're all about to see the light

F                          C
Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole and
Dm                        Bb
Everything is stunted and lost
    F       
And nothing really rocks
    C
And nothing really rolls 
    Bb             C         F
And nothing's ever worth the cost


      Bb            C           F
And I know that I'm damned if I never get out
    Bb        C            F
And maybe I'm damned if I do
          Bb         C          Dm
But with every other beat I got left in my heart
C            Bb        C           F
You know I'd rather be damned with you
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     F                          C
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
 Bb                 C           F
Dancing through the night with you
                                C
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
F                          Bb
Gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
     F                          C            
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
 Bb                  C
Dancing through the night
 Bb                  C
Dancing through the night
 Bb                  C         F
Dancing through the night with you


| F / Eb / | Bb/D / C / | x4 | Csus | C | / | / |

Pre-Chorus - Chorus

Am/D C/E  C F      C/E        Dm       F/C
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven 
          Bb          Gm/A    Gm7
I'll come crawling on back to you 
            F        Am/E     Dm       F/C
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven 
          Bb          Gm/A    Gm7
I'll come crawling on back to you 

Guitar-Cycle | Drums two bars |

Fsus F / / | Fsus F F2 F Absus | Absus Ab / / | Absus Ab Ab2 Ab Ebsus | 

Ebsus Eb / / | Ebsus Eb Ebsus Eb | Csus C / / | Csus C Csus C | x2

G/D | D | G/D | D | Bb/F | F | Bb/F | F - - - |


      Bb          Bbsus4        Bb
I can see myself tearing up the road 
Eb Bb        Eb/Bb Bb    C/Bb Bb   F       | / | / | F F/Eb F/D 
Faster than any    other boy  has ever gone 
F/C    Bb                  Bbsus4 Bb
And my skin is raw but my soul is ripe 
Bb
No one's gonna stop me now 
                  F  | / | 
I gotta make my escape 
      Eb         Bb          F
But I can't stop thinking of you 
      Ab                   Eb                       F
And I never see the sudden curve until it's way too late 

| F C / / | C  Bb F/A Bb | F C / / | C Bb F/A Bb || x2

      Ab                   Eb                      Fsus | F | / |
And I never see the sudden curve till it's way too late


         Eb                       F                  Gm
Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun 
Eb                      F                 Gm
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike 
      Ab                 Bb                      Cm
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell 
        Eb           F         Gm
And the last thing I see is my heart 
      Eb
Still beating 
         Gm                 Cm       
Breaking out of my body and flyin away 
C                    Fsus4   F
Like a bat out of hell 


         Ab                       Bb                 Cm
Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun 
Ab                      Bb                Cm
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike 
      Eb                 F                       Gm
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell 
        Ab           Bb        Cm
And the last thing I see is my heart 
      Dbsus2
Still beating, Still beating 
         Fm(add9)/C         C
Breaking out of my body and flyin away 
                      F / / C | 
Like a bat out of hell 

Bb                     F / / C |  x2
  Like a bat out of hell 
Bb                     F / / / | Fm/C | C |
  Like a bat out of hell
(C)(1xo)               F | C | Bb | / | x2
  Like a bat out of hell
(Bb)                   F | / | 
  Like a bat out of hell

F | C | Bb | / | (repeat and fade)