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Meat Loaf’s ‘I Won’t Do That’ lyrical mystery explained
his death at 74 on Thursday of undisclosed causes, rock legend Meat Loaf was working on a reality competition show named after “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” his 1993 No. 1 hit that won him his one and only Grammy.But the lyrics to the song — written by the late Jim Steinman — have remained one of rock’s greatest mysteries about what exactly “that” was which he wouldn’t do.The ambiguous lyric “But I won’t do that” has been seemingly open to interpretation for years, but really it’s just been misunderstood.In a 2014 Yahoo! interview, Meat Loaf revealed what “that” is.