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This "song" is a narrative preceding "Dead Ringer for Love." It's done with a reverberating echo effect that gives it a bizarre, surreal feeling. Typical of Steinman, the words seem carefully chosen to elicit specific visuals and feelings.

The way it plays before DRFL is similar to the dialogue preceding "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)" on Bat Out of Hell and "Wasted Youth" preceding "Everything Louder Than Everything Else" on Bat Out of Hell II. Like that, and it seems almost wrong not to play them together.

Lyrics (dialogue)
The entire city is burning
You can see the flames like the inside of a mad jukebox
Lost boys stalk the streets with those jungle markings on their chests
Barbarians prowl in shadows, their heads rocking with rodents
Motorcycles reproduce in nocturnal alleys groaning with greasy pleasure
And they've blown up the YWCA like a giant balloon
And sent it out to sea full of screaming, lovely, lonely girls