Wasted Youth - Jim Steinman from Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell
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The monologue from Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell, Wasted Youth, all written and originally spoken by Jim Steinman.
From Wikipedia:
"The track quotes lyrics from the original's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", a spoken word fantasy monologue, performed by Steinman. The 1977 song's opening line "I remember everything little thing as if it happened yesterday. I was barely seventeen" opens this track, but instead of being "barely dressed" the protagonist "once killed a boy with a Fender guitar." Influenced by The Doors, Steinman wanted to write a piece where 'the rhythm wasn't coming from the drums so much as the voice - the rhythm of the spoken voice and the heartbeat behind it.'"
Brian performs the monologue in its entirety from memory.
He called me and told me that he knew this monologue and used to recite it at the arcade when he was a kid.
He would entertain his friends with it and now he can entertain the entire world with it.