Despite listing several examples in the lyrics, people still can't seem to figure out exactly what Meat Loaf wouldn't do for love.

Not to buzzkill, but each verse of the song is 3-4 things he would do for love, and then one that he wouldn't:

And I would do anything for love,
I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love,
I'll never lie to you and that's a fact

But I'll never forget the way you feel right now,
Oh no, no way.
And I would do anything for love,
But I won't do that

The things he would not do for love are:

• Forget the way you feel right now

• Forgive himself if we don't go all the way (tooo ni-eeght)

• Do it better than I do it with you so long/so long (ED: gross.)

• Stop dreaming of you every night of my life

• See that it's time to move on

• Sooner or later be screwin' around

I've always thought that it was that he won't cheat or randomly leave the girl, I take it from the section of the song that goes
"After a while to forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that its time to move on
I won't do that
I won't do that
I know the territory
I've been around
It'll all turn to dust
And we'll all fall down
And sooner or later you'll be screwing around
I won't do that!
No, I won't do that!"

I think the answer ended up being "get vaccinated"

his name was robert paulson

Lie to you. And forget the way you feel right now.

Do people even listen to the lyrics?

What I want to know is what Hall & Oates won't go for.

Unclog/fix the toilets on the Spice Bus

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXO5pjM9QgX3EwL-XTb5KoMa4kGFqaPB1?si=PpNM-b9US7ofYoK9

That

https://youtu.be/5s9RcNO49Cg

Friends- “Everything Louder Than Everything Else” is the track from this album you need to know.

After a while to forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that its time to move on

I won't do that. I won't do that

I know the territory
I've been around
It'll all turn to dust
And we'll all fall down
And sooner or later you'll be screwing around

I won't do that! No, I won't do that!

It might make more sense if the song were called "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I'd Never Do That)." Then lines like, "But I'll never do it better than I do it with you..." would make more sense.

It also doesn't help that the lines that say what he would never do are like ten bars away from the "But I won't do that" part.

But, I love Jim Steinman's songwriting so much that I'm willing to forgive.

Meatloaf said himself he’s listing everything in the song the things he would do, and the one thing he wouldn’t. The one thing he wouldn’t do is sang right before he says “but I won’t do that”

I always assumed it was some kind of euphemism for cunnilingus, but they couldn’t get a song about refusing to do oral on the radio. Like, let’s talk around this thing, making it vague, but somehow still salacious. Also, the only other Meatloaf song I ever heard on the radio was about illicit (teen?) sex in cars, so I reasoned that this song was also about sex, and that it was kind of his shtick.

Although it did occur to me that bragging about refusing to do oral (or at least strenuously denying doing it?) as a famous guy on the radio was maybe kind of a weird flex, even as a kid who had a very loose grasp of the vagueries of “grownup stuff”.

I think it’s that he doesn’t actually love the girl