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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4[Intro] Eb F Eb F Eb Ab/F Eb/F Bb/F F (x16) Ab/F Eb/F Bb/F Ab/F Eb/F Bb/F (x2) F Eb F Eb F Eb F Eb (x2) F Ab Eb Bb (x11) Eb Eb F C Bb F C Bb F Bb/F Eb F Bb/F Eb [Verse 1] (Eb) F Bb/F The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling F Way down in the valley tonight Eb F Am There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye Bb And a blade shining oh so bright F C There's evil in the air and there's thunder in the sky Dm C Bb And a killer's on the bloodshot streets F C Oh and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising Dm Oh I swear I saw a young boy Bb/D C Bb/C C Down in the gutter, he was starting to foam in the heat [Pre-Chorus] Bb C Oh Baby, you're the only thing in this whole world F Bb That's pure and good and right C And wherever you are and wherever you go Bb C F There's always gonna be some light Bb But I gotta get out C I gotta break it out now Dm Bb Before the final crack of dawn F C So we gotta make the most of our one night together Bb When it's over you know C Bb/C C We'll both be so alone [Chorus] F Like a bat out of hell Bb F I'll be gone when the morning comes F When the night is over Am Bb Am Gm Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone F Like a bat out of hell C Bb Bb C I'll be gone when the morning comes Dm C/E F But when the day is done C And the sun goes down Bb Dm/A Bb/G Bb/F Gm Am Bb C And moonlight's shin-ing through (C) F Am/E Dm F/C Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven Bb Gm/A Gm7 Bb/D C/E Bb/D C/E I'll come crawling on back to you [Verse 2] F Bb I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram F On a silver black phantom bike F Am When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry Bb And we're all about to see the light F C Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole and Dm Bb Everything is stunted and lost F And nothing really rocks C And nothing really rolls Bb C F And nothing's ever worth the cost Bb C F And I know that I'm damned if I never get out Bb C F And maybe I'm damned if I do Bb C Dm But with every other beat I got left in my heart C Bb C F You know I'd rather be damned with you F C If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned Bb C F Dancing through the night with you C If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned F Bb Gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned F C If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned Bb C Dancing through the night Bb C Dancing through the night Bb C F Dancing through the night with you [Instrumental] F Eb Bb/D C (x4) Csus C [Chorus] Am/D C/E C F C/E Dm F/C Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven Bb Gm/A Gm7 I'll come crawling on back to you F Am/E Dm F/C Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven Bb Gm/A Gm7 I'll come crawling on back to you (Guitar-Cycle Drums two bars) Fsus F Fsus F F2 F Absus Absus Ab Absus Ab Ab2 Ab Ebsus Ebsus Eb Ebsus Eb Ebsus Eb Csus C Csus C Csus C (x2) G/D D G/D D Bb/F F Bb/F F [Verse] Bb Bbsus4 Bb I can see myself tearing up the road Eb Bb Eb/Bb Bb C/Bb Bb F F F/Eb F/D Faster than any other boy has ever gone F/C Bb Bbsus4 Bb And my skin is raw but my soul is ripe Bb No one's gonna stop me now F I gotta make my escape Eb Bb F But I can't stop thinking of you Ab Eb F And I never see the sudden curve until it's way too late [Instrumental] F C C Bb F/A Bb F C C Bb F/A Bb |x2 [Verse] Ab Eb Fsus F And I never see the sudden curve till it's way too late Eb F Gm Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun Eb F Gm Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike Ab Bb Cm And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell Eb F Gm And the last thing I see is my heart Eb Still beating Gm Cm Breaking out of my body and flyin away C Fsus4 F Like a bat out of hell [Verse] Ab Bb Cm Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun Ab Bb Cm Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike Eb F Gm And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell Ab Bb Cm And the last thing I see is my heart Dbsus2 Still beating, Still beating Fmadd9/C C Breaking out of my body and flyin away F C Like a bat out of hell [Chorus] Bb F C (x2) Like a bat out of hell Bb F Fm/C C Like a bat out of hell (C)(1xo) F C Bb (x2) Like a bat out of hell (Bb) F Like a bat out of hell [Outro] (x2) F C Bb