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
 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 [bad word] 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