This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Oh
Turn on, I see red
Adrenaline crash and crack my head
Nitro junkie, paint me dead
And I see red
A hundred plus through black and white
War horse
War head
Fuck 'em, man
White knuckle tight
Through black and white
Oh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard
Loose and clean
Oh
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
So gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Turn on beyond the bone
Swallow future, spit out hope
Burn your face upon the chrome
Yeah, oh yeah
Take the corner, going to crash
Headlines
Another junkie, lives too fast
Yeah
Lives way too fast, fast, fast
Oh
Oh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard
Loose and clean
Oh
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
So gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Oh yeah
Oh
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
Oh
Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
My desire
Oh
On I burn
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Oh
Turn on, I see red
Adrenaline crash and crack my head
Nitro junkie, paint me dead
And I see red
A hundred plus through black and white
War horse
War head
Fuck 'em, man
White knuckle tight
Through black and white
Oh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard
Loose and clean
Oh
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
So gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Turn on beyond the bone
Swallow future, spit out hope
Burn your face upon the chrome
Yeah, oh yeah
Take the corner, going to crash
Headlines
Another junkie, lives too fast
Yeah
Lives way too fast, fast, fast
Oh
Oh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard
Loose and clean
Oh
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
So gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Oh yeah
Oh
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
Oh
Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
My desire
Oh
On I burn
Lyrics submitted by Egghead1, edited by gothic_hobbit
Fuel Lyrics as written by Lars Ulrich Kirk L. Hammett
Lyrics © Word Collections Publishing
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She did this during the MTV Icon thing for Metallica, and to tell you the truth she impressed me, she did pretty well, and the guitarist did the solo and everything and it was nice, but now i wonder, if she can sing like this why all she does are those whiny songs :'(