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Steinman's songs are usually much longer than most other songs, and "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" is no exception. The song is literally twelve minutes long, and Steinman cried when executives advised him that he had to cut it down to get radio play. Manager Allen Kovac warned that any song over five minutes would not be played on radio, saying that if Steinman and the group didn't make the cuts then the stations would. Even after they made the cuts, Steinman sent his own version to the stations.<ref name="autobiog"/>
The single version was wittled down to almost six minutes, where the entire motorcycle introduction is omitted. The video version was wittled down to seven minutes and thirty-eight seconds, where the motorcycle intro remains, but it is not in its entirety. In the video version and single version, the lengthy instrumental bridge is completely omitted. In the video and single versions, the refrain, which reads "I'd do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of, but I just won't do that", which is sung before the instrumental bridge, is to have been sung a repeated three times, but was wittled down to having the one line sung a repeated two times. That same refrain is sung again before the "But I'll never stop dreaming of you..." verse, where the refrain is sung a repeated seven times, but was wittled down the line being sung only a repeated three times. Lorraine Crosby has six verses in which she sings, but in the video and single versions,
2ND VERSE
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