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Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Glee ep3x21
Album: Glee: The Music, The Complete Season Three
Released: May 15, 2012
By: Meatloaf
Sung by: New Directions
Solos: Finn, Rachel, Puck, Kurt, Blaine, Santana, Brittany, Mike and Mercedes
Place: 2012 National Show Choir Championships
Episode: Nationals

Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meat Loaf is featured in Nationals, the twenty-first episode of Season Three. It is sung by the New Directions. Finn and Rachel sing lead, with solos from Blaine, Brittany, Kurt, Mercedes, Mike, Puck and Santana.

The song is performed after The Troubletones' number, Edge of Glory, and Rachel's solo, It's All Coming Back to Me Now and is the final song in the New Directions 2012 Nationals Championship setlist.

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Lyrics

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Finn:
Well, I remember every little thing
As if it happened only yesterday
Parking by the lake
And there was not another car in sight

Finn with New Directions harmonizing:
And I never had a girl
Looking any better than you did
And all the kids at school
They were wishing they were me that night

Puck with New Directions:
And now our bodies are oh so close and tight
It never felt so good, it never felt so right

Kurt (and Blaine in show Version) with New Directions:
And we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife
Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife

Blaine with New Directions harmonizing:
C'mon!

Mike with New Directions harmonizing:
Hold tight!

Blaine with New Directions harmonizing:
Oh c'mon!

Mike with New Directions harmonizing:
Hold tight!

Santana and Brittany with New Directions:
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night

Blaine and Kurt with New Directions:
I can see paradise by the dashboard light

Finn:
Though it's cold and lonely in the

Finn with New Directions:
Deep dark

Finn and Mercedes with New Directions:
Night

Mercedes with New Directions:
In the deep dark night

Finn:
Paradise by the

Finn and Mercedes with New Directions:
Dashboard light

Finn and Puck:
We're gonna go all the way tonight
We're gonna go all the way
And tonight's the night

Finn, Puck and Blaine:
We're gonna go all the way tonight
We're gonna go all the way
And tonight's the night

Finn, Puck, Blaine and Brittany:
We're gonna go all the way tonight
We're gonna go all the way
And tonight's the night

Finn, Puck, Blaine, Brittany and Mercedes with New Directions:
We're gonna go all the way tonight
We're gonna go all the way
And tonight's the night

Rachel:
(Mercedes: Night) Stop right there
I gotta know right now
Before we go any further
Do you love me
Will you love me forever
Do you need me
Will you never leave me
Will you make me so happy
For the rest of my life
Will you take me away
And will you make me your wife

Finn:
Let me sleep on it (New Directions: Sleep on it)
Baby, baby let me sleep on it (New Directions: Sleep on it)
Let me sleep on it
And I'll give you an answer in the morning

Rachel:
I gotta know right now
Do you love me (New Directions: Do you, do you love me)
Will you love me forever
Do you need me (New Directions: Do you, do you need me)
Will you never leave me
Will you make me so happy (New Directions: Will you never leave me)
For the rest of my life
Will you take me away (New Directions: Do you, do you, do you)
And will you make me your wife
(With New Directions: Do you love me)
Will you love me forever

Finn with New Directions Boys:
Let me sleep on it

Rachel with New Directions Girls:
Will you love me forever

Finn with New Directions Boys:
Let me sleep on it

Rachel with New Directions Girls:
Will you love me forever

Finn (with New Directions):
I couldn't take it any longer
Lord I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me
Like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my god
And on my mother's grave
That I would (love you to the end of time)
I swore I would (love you to the end of time)

Finn with New Directions:
So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive
I'll never break my promise or forget my vow

Finn:
But God only knows what I can do right now

Finn with New Directions:
I'm praying for the end of time
It's all that I can do (Mercedes: All that I can do!)
Prayin' for the end of time
So I can end my time with you! (Mercedes: You! Yeah!)

Finn with New Directions (Rachel):
It was long ago and it was far away (It never felt so good, It never felt so right)
And it was so much better than it is today. (And we were glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife)
It was long ago and it was far away (It never felt so good, It never felt so right)
And it was so much better than it is today. (And we were glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife)
It was long ago and it was far away (It never felt so good, It never felt so right)
And it was so much better than it is today. (And we were glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife)

Finn, Rachel and Mercedes with New Directions:
Felt so right!
Felt so good!
Paradise!

Trivia

  • The songs original run time was nearly 11 minutes but Glee cut it down to just under 4 minutes.
  • In the setlist of New Directions seen in Props, this was originally performed by Finn, Rachel, Puck, Artie, Tina, Mike, Santana, Brittany, Sam, Mercedes, Kurt and Blaine with New Directions.
  • This is the 400th Musical Number on Glee (including unreleased songs/performances like Chapel of Love, The Music of the Night and so on.)
  • They performed the complete recorded cover on the show, possibly because it is Glee's 400th number.
  • This was the final song that Rachel, Kurt, Finn, Puck, Quinn, Mercedes, Santana and Mike got to perform at a competition in New Directions, due to them graduating.
  • On the official GleeOnFox website, instead of Paradise By The Dashboard Light, it says "Meat Loaf Mashup" despite the fact it was not a mashup.
  • Blaine is the only non senior member to have solo parts.
  • The first New Directions competition performance that Joe is seen performing in upon entering the club.
  • This song was voted the winner of "Best Dancing Performance in a Group Number" at the 2012 Glee Wiki Awards.
  • This is the fifth time out of six songs to be performed fully in the episode. The first being Run Joey Run, with Bohemian Rhapsody, When I Get You Alone and As If We Never Said Goodbye proceeding it and At the Ballet following.

Errors

  • At the beginning of the song Quinn runs across the stage with the other girls, and 3 seconds later when it shows the girls on the steps Quinn is not seen running off, though she just appears later in the song.
  • At the "in the deep dark night!" part, both Mercedes and Brittany turn back and proceed to their positions, with Santana being left. After this, Brittany is seen holding Santana's head, at the next shot, it isn't.
  • At 16:06 into the episode Mercedes is suddenly missing from the performance, and Naya Rivera can clearly be seen in the background looking off camera confused if she should continue the number as if nothing is amiss. When the camera cuts to the next shot Mercedes is back in frame.

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