LIKE A CHARIOT ON FIRE
Back on the racetrack
Turn up the speed
Back on the racetrack
Take no heed
The world is dizzy
And I’m spinning like a top
The world is dizzy
And I cannot stop
I’m closing in
The earth grows rounder
The sky gets closer
I can touch the sun
On the racetrack
My life is flying by
Like a chariot on Fire
That wants to die
Higher and higher
I can no longer touch the ground
This time round
I’ll reach the sky
Throttle the motor
It’s running hot
My ears are roaring wild
I’m throbbing at breakneck speed
But something skids inside my head
Then the brakes crack down and I reel around
THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW
The racetrack is now a straight and narrow road
Full of stop signs and radar traps
I’ve got air conditioning, radio and color TV
My car is swift as it can be
Leather seats and cruise control
Now I’m set to go down the straight and narrow road
I only wanted a tune up, but I got this instead
It’s new and shiny and casts a shadow on my life
Every day and every night
My vows were sacred
But I’ve become his pawn
Everywhere I look
I see Checkmate
Got to find a way out of this hearse
But when I glide into first
I shift back into reverse
Gotta burn some rubber
Kick up some dust
What can be worse than all this rust?
So leave I did without a trace
Just some skid marks for keepsake
I was not a ride of confidence
Could only go around the block
On the straight and narrow road
Until I ran out of fuel
Until you ran into me
HEAD ON COLLISION
You broke my top speed baby
You throttle my engine, make it purr
I’m in the land of plenty now
And I would go for miles
Just to run your red light, darling
Just to make you mine
Yes, I would run a thousand red lights
And take a thousand fines
Just to get your siren going
Before you tail me down
And record the offense
So I can hang my head out the window
Ponder my transgressions, one by one
While you pen down
All the rules I’ve broken
And the heavy fine ….
Tell me what my rights are
On the straight and narrow line
I’ll look you in the eyes
You can put your pistol to my temple
March me up against the hood
Because I’m trigger happy, my love
Only you can make me
Abstain from going into reverse again
Trigger happy
Trigger happy
I’m so trigger happy, darlin’
I’m handcuffed to your siren
And I will sing along like Circe
Tailspin with you forever
Until we glide into the acrid dust
To kiss the cinders
From the tracks of our anointed lust
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