So he's gone and left you all alone?
You 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.

I taught you lessons about freedom
Strapped to the bucket of a 455.
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.
To 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 455.
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.

I'm alive
You wanna meet a girl I used to know,
Let's take a drive.


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Let's Take a Drive Lyrics as written by Jimmie Lee Sloas Christian Kane

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    like he likes being alive and trying to hook his mate up with agirl

    joanne298on April 28, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation

    It seems to me that he was going out with a girl when they were both 17. They parted for whatever reason and she married a prat and feels she's lost who she was because of trying to make her prat of a husband happy.

    Then he, her first love, arrives back in her life and tries to remind her who she was, 'the girl who danced on fire and brimstone,' (my fave line)!

    Towards the end he must have been getting through to her, he asks her to take a drive... In my heart she did, they went racing again and she regained who she was, regained her power! And lived happily ever after! :-D

    Twizzlenicson March 08, 2015   Link

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