Memetic Mutation: The eternal mystery of what "that" might be in "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)". Is it illegal? Immoral? Degenerate? Anatomically impractical? The answer is actually right there in the lyricsnote It's a promise to be faithful. At the end, the female vocalist asks a number of questions ("Will you raise me up? Will you help me down? Will you get me right out of this godforsaken town?") and he replies "I can do that". Then she says that eventually the shine will go out of their relationship and "Sooner or later you'll be screwing around." "I won't do that. No, I won't do that." but that hasn't stopped the public from treating it as a Riddle for the Ages, a joke even Meat Loaf himself propagated.
