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Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Roger Clyne
Songwriter
Lyrics
Will you be my Mary Magdalene
Would you be my American dream
Will you mix your perfume up from diesel fumes and gasoline
Be my sweet insurgent and load the magazine
Let's shoot out the lights tonight
We've been waitin' too long for them to turn green
Now take the wheel the highway's clear
I got the throttle now baby you steer
And let's squeeze every drop out of this machine
The coffee - the diesel - the methamphetamine
'Til this Goddamn rig can't run no faster
Baby ain't we a beautiful disaster
So our stars'll burn their brightest
Just before they burn out
Here in our prime
Well I know it's just the way of things
So if we're short on years baby we're long on miles
So let's grind the gears and sink the needle in the red on all the dials
You know I love to watch them angels fightin' over you
Heaven knows they left me long ago
Oooh la salvadora
Oh sweet catastrophe
Ah siren song
The captain says there's nothin' wrong
As I dash my ship upon your shore
A mad-drunk and reckless troubadour
I'm outside here hollerin' at your door begging you for more of you
Now take the wheel the highway is clear
I got the throttle now baby you steer
Let's squeeze every drop out of this machine
The coffee - the diesel - the methamphetamine
'Til the horses scream that they can't run no faster
Baby ain't we a beautiful disaster
Written by: Roger Clyne