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