So he's gone and left you all alone Think the better of your years Were spent with him The little girl who used to dance On fire and brimstone Is all but dead
Where's the girl I knew that held A lighter up to the radio She'd do anything she wants Because she can We were seventeen and wild and we were jumpin' on The Devil's bed I didn't raise you like that
CHORUS I taught you lessons about freedom Strapped to the bucket of a forty-five bike I lit your hair on fire Racing ten mile flats Where American heavy metal cries Oh we were waitin' and wishin' On pink slips and kisses at the end of the line When you rat-a-tat tatted on the glass And you screamed on high I'm alive
You can say that cat is long gone I bet you look real hard You can find that girl within She's probably waitin' in the wings For you to come along Let her out again You need a quarter mile, a bunch of horses, And some gasoline
I taught you lessons about freedom Strapped to the bucket of a forty-five bike I lit your hair on fire Racing ten mile flats Where American heavy metal cries Oh we were waitin' and wishin' On pink slips and kisses at the end of the line When you rat-a-tat tatted on the glass And you screamed I'm alive
I'm alive You wanna meet a girl I used to know, Let's take a drive