"Paradise By the Dashboard Light" is the second hit single by the American musician Meat Loaf, after Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad. It is a track off his 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, that was entirely written and composed by Jim Steinman.

The song is a three-part epic about a boy who wants sexual intercourse with a girl. She agrees on the condition that he will love her forever, with which he reluctantly agrees. The ending, however, is famously ironic: So now I'm praying for the end of time / To hurry up and arrive / 'cause if I have to spend another minute with you I don't think that I can really survive. The song includes a famous interlude in which legendary New York Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto broadcasts a portion of a baseball game that serves as a metaphor for the boy's attempts at intercourse.

The female part is performed by Ellen Foley.