Meat Loaf has dropped his "Bat Out of Hell" lawsuit faster than, well, you know.

The Grammy-winning rocker has resolved the $50 million lawsuit filed last month against longtime songwriting partner Jim Steinman over trademark rights to the Loaf's signature album title.

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"It resolved itself very quickly because neither one of us wanted to argue," the 59-year-old singer, whose real name is Marvin Aday, told Reuters. "There's a mutual love and respect there.

"We're not going to have a knock-down brawl. We just have too much history."

The rocker filed suit against Steinman, who penned the epic '70s ditty "Bat Out of Hell" and the other songs on the monster-selling album of the same name, for wrongfully trademarking the phrase back in 1995. While Meat Loaf acknowledged the fact that he hadn't actually come up with the signature four words, he had used them extensively for 29 career-spanning years and argued that the phrase's legal association should be with him, not Steinman.

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