Live Wire

This song sounds kinda rapey, I'll give people that... This could be because the narrator of the song sounds like he's a bit unstable, maybe high, and looking for action, any action. He's all aggressive about it when he's talking to himself the whole song but when he's speaking to another character in the bridge, the music slows down and cleans up and so does his voice. He tries to be all calm and cool but ends up letting her know he's a danger...

Or it was written by a young songwriter who didn't realize who rapey it sounded when he wrote a looking for action song, but I think the lock your doors line in the bridge redeems the song's potential inadvertent rapeyness because it kind of adds depth to the character warning the people around him what he's about to do because he knows he's unstable or fucked up enough to attack someone like that.

So either it's a really clever and super dark character piece about the emotional state of a night prowler put over a happier sounding tune (Like Van Halen's Jump was) or it was written by an, at the time, immature and ametuer songwriter trying to write the first album, not really thinking about lyrics... I'll stick with the former in my mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XskizLMVh-E do your research guys, its actually about being young and going out on the scene, nothing holding you back

this song is great, i am reading the lyrics obviously, and i am thinking its about beating your wife or girlfriend for sex, but hey thats just me, COME ON PEOPLE PUT SOME COMMENTS ON THIS SONG ITS A KILLER SONG

this is a killer song, i love it, one of my fav crue songs ever! its about runnin wild, and how could those 4 not? love them!

to me this song is about rape:

I'll either break her face Or take down her legs Get my ways at will Go for the throat Never let loose Goin' in for the kill Take my fist Break down walls I'm on the top tonight

what else could that be about. amazing song tho from one of my favourite bands ever

they make rape sound good.

right the song is about rape, damn you'r stupid. there is a such thing as mindless rock, and this song is definately mindless rock,

Kerby, how does this song make rape sound good ??

this is my favorite song by the crue i just love vince's voice in it

It's my favorite Motley Crue song, too. This song seems like your run-of-the-mill glam/hair metal song lyrically to me.