# The Stirring Jim Steinman Lyric That Meat Loaf Finally Sang a Dozen Years After the Fact

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-stirring-jim-steinman-lyric-that-meat-loaf-finally-sang-a-dozen-years-after-the-fact/
- Published: 2026-11-06T16:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T16:42:24+00:00
- Original publisher: American Songwriter
- Original article: https://americansongwriter.com/the-stirring-jim-steinman-lyric-that-meat-loaf-finally-sang-a-dozen-years-after-the-fact/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Meat Loaf recorded Steinman’s song more than a decade after it was written.
- Rory Dodd sang Steinman’s earlier 1981 version.
- The song presents rock music as comfort in hard times.

## Summary

Jim Steinman wrote “Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through” for Meat Loaf in the early 1980s, but the singer did not record it until 1993. Their eventual reunion for *Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell* gave Meat Loaf the chance to sing the song himself, bringing the pair’s intended collaboration to fruition after more than a decade.

The delay followed the success of *Bat Out Of Hell*: Meat Loaf lost his voice during sessions for a planned follow-up, so Steinman recorded the songs himself. Rory Dodd sang the lead on Steinman’s 1981 version, which reached the US Top 40. For Meat Loaf’s 1993 recording, Steinman added a verse whose imagery presents music as a source of comfort during difficult times.

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