„Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” is a love song by the American musician Meat Loaf in his solo career, preceded by „You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth” and followed by „Paradise by the Dashboard Light”. It is a track off his 1977 album Bat out of Hell, written by Jim Steinman. It reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of his highest-charting U.S. releases.
It was the final song written for the album. In a 2003 interview for the VH1 Ultimate Albums series, Steinman recalls:
„I remember Mimi Kennedy [a cast member of Jim’s then-current musical Rhinegold] telling me, she said, you know, when I was probably complaining why no one liked my stuff and couldn’t get a deal, she says, „Well Steiny, your stuff is so complicated. Can’t you write something simple?” And while she was saying that the oldies station was on the radio and it was playing that old Elvis song, ‘I Want You, I Need,’ whatever it was. ‘I Want You, I Need You, I Love You’, you know. I just started singing my own song but it was ‘I Want You, I Need You, I Love You.’ She said, „Why don’t you write something simple like that, ‘I want you, I need you, I love you’?” I said, „Well I’ll try.” I don’t try to make them complicated. I remember going home and I tried so hard but the best I could do was: I want you, I need you but there ain’t no way I’m ever gonna love you, don’t be sad, ‘cause two out of three ain’t bad. So it was still a twist but it was my closest to a simple song, and one Elvis could have done.”
A music video was shot for the single and received significant airplay on television video programs of that day, a number of years before the conception of MTV.
Two mixes were created for the song. In the album mix of 5:27, one can hear prominent Moog-synthesizer embellishments by session keyboardist Roger Powell. The single mix of 3:50 downmixes considerably the synthesizer, in place of a much warmer and predominant string arrangement by Ken Ascher. This mix also edits out and removes the first lyrical bridge of the song which includes the line, „There ain’t no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box”, and does some overlapping, splicing and editing to seamlessly merge back into the second part of the lyrical bridge, starting with, „I can’t lie, I can’t tell you that I’m something I’m not.” Yet, another lyrical edit in the last verse removes the lines, „And though I know I’ll never get her out of my heart, she never loved me back, Ooh I know, well I remember how she left me on a stormy night, oh she kissed me and got out of our bed.” Lastly, a song fade-out beginning in the middle of the ending chorus’ second refrain is also featured, hence removing the full-circle lyrics of „Baby we can talk all night, but that ain’t getting us nowhere,” that both started and ended the song, in its full album mix version.
Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad lyrics
Baby we can talk all night
But that ain’t gettin us nowhere
I told you everything I possibly can
There’s nothing left inside of here
And maybe you can cry all night
But that’ll never change the way that I feel
The snow is really piling up outside
I wish you wouldn’t make me leave here
I poured it on and I poured it out
I tried to show you just how much I care
I’m tired of words and I’m too hoarse to shout
But you’ve been cold to me so long
I’m crying icicles instead of tears
And all I can do is keep on telling you
I want you, I need you
But there ain’t no way I’m ever gonna love you
Now don’t be sad
‘Cause two out of three ain’t bad
Now don’t be sad
‘Cause two out of three ain’t bad
You’ll never find your gold on a sandy beach
You’ll never drill for oil on a city street
I know you’re looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks
But there ain’t no Coup de Ville hiding at the bottom
of a Cracker Jack box
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/m/meat-loaf-lyrics/two-out-of-three-ain_t-bad-lyrics.html ]
I can’t lie, I can’t tell you that I’m something I’m not
No matter how I try
I’ll never be able to give you something
Something that I just haven’t got
There’s only one girl that I will ever love
And that was so many years ago
And though I know I’ll never get her out of my heart
She never loved me back, I know
I remember how she left me on a stormy night
How she kissed me and got out of our bed
And though I pleaded and I begged her not to walk out that door
She packed her bags and turned right away
And she kept on telling me
She kept on telling me
She kept on telling me
I want you, I need you
But there ain’t no way I’m ever gonna love you
Now don’t be sad
‘Cause two out of three ain’t bad
I want you, I need you
But there ain’t no way I’m ever gonna love you
Now don’t be sad
‘Cause two out of three ain’t bad
Baby we can talk all night
But that ain’t getting us nowhere
Radu Zlati 
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