Growing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today:

https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart...

I believe that's the original source, but it looks cut off. Here's a full version:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/82/dc/b182dcc291495c013c98...

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vikingerik 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Did you know there's a long version? (Of the song, not the flowchart, though another reply has that too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svz-W5w2bPM

There's a 7-minute version, with two more verses that aren't in the version you always hear on the radio. The one starting at 3:45 in that video is particularly powerful and chilling.

	▲	js2 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
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orly01 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It doesn't look like the second has been cut off to get the first, because the font is different. It looks like the second was an attempt to extend the first (also, it kills the joke)

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petcat 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Steinman was a genius. One of the greatest rock composers of all time and he picked his performers brilliantly.

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dreamcompiler 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

TIL Bonnie Tyler was the female Meat Loaf.

	▲	mikestew 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At the time it was pretty obvious, having just come off Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell being played on the radio ten times a day.

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lightbendover an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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burkaman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds me of when she was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and they played a "finish the lyrics" game: https://youtu.be/vl7UfjtLzcQ?t=260

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IAmGraydon 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's actually a really interesting visualization of a professionally structured verse.

	▲	chasd00 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not sure why you were downvoted, it is super interesting. I know nothing of songwriting but it seems like that could be read by a singing performer in similarly to how sheet music is read by an instrument performer. In the graph, there's additional information than just the words that a singer would need to perform the song accurately. /re-iterate i know almost nothing of music except what i like which i've been informed over and over is incorrect hah.

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lolive an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Visual representation is your WORST friend: it will make things LOOK simple even if the real thing required the utter mastery to create.

Look at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbMw6X3T40

(or that: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1500354675104013)