I think Jim had 'Heaven Can Wait' & 'For Crying Out Loud' before he met Meat (or at least a short while after) and not written with Meat (or the Bat album) in mind.
The first song he wrote specifically for Meat was 'Took The Words', around 1975 I think (source: Radio 1 - A Hell of a Record interview).
'Paradise' was prompted by Meat's experiences in high school (apparently), and 2/3 was the last song written for Bat, probably late '76, early '77?
'Bat' (musically) resulted from an aborted attempt by Meat & Jim to do their version of 'Jailhouse Rock', and I think lyrics were inspired by the film 'Psycho'.
> So I wonder what the real story behind Bat out of Hell is
> now. Meat always claims that "Heaven can Wait" was the
> first song written for the album but the more rare stuff
> we see from the 70s, the further back the songs go. Really
> weird. It would be interesting to hear what Jim has to say
> about where the 7 songs came from.
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