“You can take the darkness from the deep of the night
And turn it to a beacon burning endlessly bright
I gotta follow it 'cause everything I know
Well, it's nothing 'till I give it to you.”

— Jim Steinman

Making Love out of Nothing at All (1983)

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American musician 1947

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