:-D Love it, Paul.

Thanks, Phil...it was fun to do, too ~ ~ ~

Maybe there's something really refreshing and rejuvenating with bat-sleep and/or bat-apathy? In the interest of pop culture lore and science I suggest that you try to sleep hanging upside down from the ceiling tonight and then come back with a rapport tomorrow!

Peter - Would that be pronounced "bata-pathy"? or "bat-apathy"? I like the first one better...I think sleeping like that might drive me more bats than I already am...lol...Thanks!

reading this as i'm listening to your recorded version...sad and lamentful....batman always struck me as kind of a mopey guy

"Cold hearted dude/Is The Dark Knight/Tired of fighting villains/Left and right/This parody sure ain't slight/Paul Robinson's illusion." 555

'Robin, my "ward"' - good. Five bats in your belfry.
"wife"? Always wondered about their relationship; some comedy show had "Ace and Gary (AG): The Ambiguously Gay Duo". can't remember which show.

Paul, good parody, BUT you left off the all-important spoken part....that's not an option, it's part of the song. Pacing iffy in spots. 4-5-4

TT: SNL.

alvin - yeah, mopey dude...agrimorfee - nice short-hand paraphrasing of my piece - Tommy T...yeah, I've got another "Batman" lament around here somewhere...oh, yeah...Jethro Tull's "Fat Man"...is something like "Don't Want To Be That Batman"...it deals with his relationship with "ward Robin" a bit, too...lol...Pat...disagree with you and here's why: The OS versions I have...BOTH OF THEM (I bought another "Moody Blues: Greatest Hits" type CD this weekend) do NOT have that spoken section, so they are NOT part of the piece I was parodying...I KNOW there is a spoken part after the sung portion, but it is not necessarily part of the song...at least not in the estimation of those putting together the Moody's re-packaged works...I don't think I should have been 'dinged' for that...the words and music were not available to me...and I really don't consider them necessarily relevant to the rest of the song, either...of course, I've never listened to "Nights" from the aspect of taking it very seriously. Honestly, I never liked it when I was younger...it's 'alright' to me now, but just too draggy for it to be something I'd listen to just for enjoyment. Anyway, I protest, I rant, I get over it...lol...

Agrimorfee: Thought so, wasn't sure; thanks.

555 Of all superheroes Batman WOULD be the one to suffer a burn-out first, because he doesn't have any superpowers. So if Robin fails him, Batman only has himself to blame for not training him well. Robin's uselessness shouldn't get too blown out of proportion (no offence, Jason Todd...) I didn't know this song had a spoken part, I guess they cut it out in the version that airs on the radio stations I listen to.

Most classic rock stations do play the album version of the song, which includes the poetry and the final orchestral flourish. Most Amirighteans (would that be our proper appellation? :) ) do parody the entire song. I can forgive Paul on this.

YAD...hey, by now "Robin" would be, what, 60-something years old...or more...that's a little old to still be sniffing up around the tail-end of somebody else's cape...Agrimorfee...well, I don't listen to any radio anymore...except morning traffic reports before I start my drive to work...on BOTH of the Moody Blues CD's that I recently bought the spoken stuff is not included...nor was it included on the lyrics sites I checked...IF it had been on either of the recorded versions I would have taken the trouble to TRANSCRIBE it so that I could include replacement lyrics for them...I have done that on MANY occasions. But I don't write lyrics for parts that cannot be seen or heard by me...I just don't...call me crazy...at any rate, on this particular piece I never felt the poetry part really worked anyway...(yeah, I know I'm asking for trouble with that statement), BUT, I WOULDA done 'em anyway if they had been in the stupid recording...I SHOULDA mentioned it up in the "Top Comments"...look how much time and finger movement I woulda saved myself and some other folks...lol...Seriously, thanks for input and info everybody...feel free to put your own spoken parts in after you read my piece...from what I remember of the OS spoken parts you will all be snoring or sleeping before you finish...did I mention I NEVER CARED for that part of the OS? LOL...'bye...

Paul, keep it up, o wise-*ss one (narrowing eyes).

Good parody ;)

Oops...I keep forgetting the 'lol' and 'j/k'. Paul.

LucidLupin...Thanks! Adagio - Yeah, it's amazing how that keeps happening to me, too. Hey, maybe someday I'll listen to those spoken so I can determine just how really boring they are...who knows, maybe in my dotage they will seem to mean something...I think that last time I actually HEARD them was about 1975...and I stopped paying attention as soon as the poetry started ~ ~ ~