Name: Gentlemen Start Your Engines
Duration: P00H04M41S
Description: By John Perry Barlow and Brent Mydland.

Gentlemen Start Your Engines

from Fair to Mydland by Beau Mansfield

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By John Perry Barlow and Brent Mydland.

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Well, it's three a.m. in the Combat Zone
Gentlemen, start your engines
You can close this bar, but baby, I ain't going
Gentlemen, start your engines

If you lock up the whisky, give me gasoline
Got a seven-grand redline on the black machine
The dead can do my sleepin', if you know what I mean

Got a little girl here in a pinafore
She's gonna do us all and then beg for more
It's dark outside, but it's darker within
Check the back of my jacket just to see my grin
They don't write poems about the state I'm in

One of these days I'm gonna pull myself together
After I finish tearing myself apart
Let me tell you, honey, there's some mighty stormy weather
Rolling 'round the caverns of my heart

When the police come, you better let 'em in
Don't forget to tell 'em what a sport I've been
Got a head full of vintage TNT
Gonna blow me up instead of burying me
If you don't like trouble, better leave my ass be
Gentlemen, start your engines

Like the devil's mustangs, I been riding hell for leather
Put away wet and angry in the dark
Let me tell you, honey, there's some mighty stormy weather
Rolling 'round the caverns of my heart