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Almost like a nightmare
 Every men and thunder
I like smoke and lightning
 Heavy metal thunder
 
Almost like a nightmare
 Every metal thunder
I like smoke and lightning
 Heavy metal thunder
 
B****en car stopped running.
Get your motor running.
 
B*tchin' for the run in.
Get your motor runnin'.
 
Barnaby Wild
Born to be wild
 
Bitch, your motor's runnin'.
Get your motor runnin'.
 
Bitchin' for a run in
Get your motor running
 
Bitchin' for a runnin'
Get your motor running
 
Bitchin' motor runnin' 
 Flat out on the highway.
Get your motor runnin' 
 Head out on the highway.
 
Bitchin' on a runnin
Get your motor running
 
Bore tubby wide
Born to be wild
 
Buy all of your guns at Watson's, there's plenty of space
Fire all of your guns at once and, explode into space
 
Buy all of your guns at once
Fire all of your guns at once
 
Catch 'em while they're runnin'
Get your motor running
 
Empty both of my guts at once and
 Explode in your face.
Fire all of your guns at once and
 Explode into space.
 
Entered on the highway
Head out on the highway.
 
Every little slum girl
Heavy metal thunder
 
File all of ya gums at once
 Explode interface.
Fire all of your guns at once and
 Explode into space.
 
Fire all of your guns, Tecumseh
 Explode into space.
Fire all of your guns at once and
 Explode into space.
 
Fire all your guns at Watson
 Explode into space.
Fire all your guns at once and
 Explode into space.
 
Fire all your guns at horses,
 Explode in your face
Fire all your guns at once
 And explode into space
 
Get it on the highway.
Head out on the highway.
 
Get them on around, eh..., errand on the highway!
Get your motor runnin',head out on the highway
 
Get your modem running
 Hell out of the highway
 Lookin' for invention
 In whatever comes our way.
Get your motor running
 Head out on the highway
 Lookin' for adventure
 In whatever comes our way.
 
Get your motor runnin',
hit 'em off the highway
Get your motor runnin',
head out on the highway
 
Get your motors running
 There upon the highway.
Get your motor runnin'
 Head out on the highway.
 
Go Donegal, make it happen.
Yeah Darlin', go and make it happen.
 
Hair looks like a lightning
Heavy metal thunder
 Whistlin' with the wind
 And the feelin' down under
I like smoke and lightning
 Heavy metal thunder
 Racing with the wind
 And the feeling that I'm under.
 
Hitchin' on a runnin
Get your motor running.
 
I like funky lightning
I like smoke and lightning
 
I like smokin' ice cream.
I like smoke and lightnin'.
 
I like smokin' lighting
 Heavy mental blunder
I like smoke and lightning
 Heavy metal thunder
 
I like smokin' lightnin'
I like smoke and lightnin'
 
I like smokin' lightning
Gravy made of thunder
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
 
I like smokin' night men
 Heavy metal thunder.
I like smoke and lightning
 Heavy metal thunder.
 
I like smoking lightning.
I like smoke and lightning.
 
I like smokin’ lines man
I like smoke and lightning
 
I like something nice now
 Heavy metal thunder.
I like smoke and lightning
 Heavy metal thunder.
 
I like speck of lightning
 Better than the thunder
 Wrestling with the wind
 And the feeling that I'm under.
I like smoke and lightning
 Heavy metal thunder
 Racing with the wind
 And the feeling that I'm under.
 
I like suckin' right on
 Hairy men in London.
I like smoke and lightning
 Heavy metal thunder.
 
I looked like a nightmare.
I like smoke and lightning.
 
I order the guns to caution
Explode into space
Fire all of your guns at once and
Explode into space.
 
I've a true natural high
 I've a bomb, bomb in my mind
 I am daaamn sooo high
 I think I'm gonna cry.
Like a true nature's child
 I was born, born to be wild
 We can climb so high
 I never wanna die.
 
Itchy motor running
Get your motor running.
 
Kick the world in a lovin' place.
Take the world in a love embrace.
 
Kitchen water runnin'
Get your motor runnin'
 
Kitchen water running
Get your motor running.
 
Let the truth make it shine
We were born, Barnaby Wilde.
Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild.
 
Let your true nature shine
Like a true nature's child
 
Like a Jew not chastised
 We were bored, bored to be white.
Like a true nature's child
 We were born, born to be wild.
 
Like a Jew, Nature's child 
We were born, born to be wild.
Like a true nature's child 
We were born, born to be wild.
 
Like a trooper never dies
 We were born, born to be wild.
Like a true nature's child
 We were born, born to be wild.
 
Like a true Asian child
 I was born Barnaby Wilde.
Like a true nature's child
 I was born, born to be wild.
 
Like a true major's child.
Like a true nature's child.
 
Lookin' for a run in.
Get your motor runnin'.
 
Lookin' for a something.
Lookin' for adventure.
 
Lookin' for a venture
 And a Harvard MBA!
Lookin' for adventure
 And whatever comes our way!
 
Lookin' for invention
Lookin' for adventure
 
Lookin' for my dentures
 And whatever comes my way.
Lookin' for adventure
 And whatever comes our way.
 
Looking for her dentures
Looking for adventure
 
Racing with your wingding
Racing with the wind
 
Sock it to me, ch-child.
Like a true nature's child
 
Sock it to nature's child
Like a true nature's child
 
Stick your love in a lovin' place.
Take the world in a love embrace.
 
Yeah dear, go and gimme a pen.
 or
 Yeah, God, I'm gonna make it happen.
Yeah Darlin', go and make it happen.
 
Yeah, God, I'm gonna make it, have fun
Yeah, darlin, go and make it happen
 
Yeah, gotta go naked half-way.
Yeah, darlin', go and make it happen.
 
Yeah, nothin's gonna make it happen
Take the world in a lovin' embrace
I order the guns to caution
Explode into space.
Yeah darlin' go make it happen
 Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space.
 
Ain't no doubt I'm gonna make it happen
Yeah Darlin', go and make it happen.
My all-time favorite secular song, especially now that we have a Harley!
 
And I'm on the highway
Head out on the highway
 
Barn to be wild
or
Farm to be wild
Born to Be Wild
 
Buy all of the guns and bombs and
 Explode it to space.
Fire all your guns at once and
 Explode into space.
 
Buy all of your guns at Watson's
 It's loaded with space.
Fire all your guns at once and
 Explode into space.
 
Exploding to space
or
Exploring to space
or
Explore into space
or
It's floating in space
Explode into space
 
Fire all of your guns and once and
Heads float into space.
Fire all your guns at once and
 Explode into space.
 
Fire all of your guns and watch them
Explode into space.
Fire all your guns at once and
Explode into space.
 
Fire all of your guns and watch them
 Explode into space.
Fire all your guns at once and
 Explode into space.
 
Get your mother runnin'. Hit her on the highway.
Get your motor running. Head out on the highway.
 
Got your Maserati
or
Got your Mazda running
Got your motor running
 
Helen on the highway
 or 
Heaven on the highway
Headin' on the highway
 
Hilux and the nightmen
Heavy metal thunder
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
 
I like smokin' lines man
I like smoke and lightning
 
I never wanna try
or
I never wanna cry
I never wanna die
 
Like a true mayor's child
Like a true nature's child
 
We can climb so high
And never gonna die
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
 
We were born Barnaby Wild
We were born, born to be wild
 
Yeah, I doubt I'm gonna make it happen
Kick the world in a lovin' place
Yeah darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
 
Yeah, gotta go make it happen.
Yeah, Darlin', go and make it happen.
 
born to be wise
born to be wild
 
like a tune-acious child
like a true nature's child
 
Go TV Land
Born to be Wild
 
Why orbit the sun's the question, it's floating in space
Fire all of the guns at once and explode into space
 
Lady, it's over
For ladies only
 
Hey, laundry mamma
Hey, Lawdy mamma
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Any place that the dope is right.
 or
 Anywhere it goes is right.
Any place it goes is right.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Can't you see your submarine
Fantasy will set you free
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Close your eyes, girl
Look and find, girl
Let the soundtrack, you can wait
Close your eyes, girl
Look inside, girl
Let the sound take you away
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Fantasy is sugar free
Fantasy will set you free
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Grab your seat, we'll set you free
Fantasy will set you free
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I like Katrina right between the summer sheets.
I like to dream, yeah, right between the sound machine.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I like to ... around.
I looked around.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I like to achieve it
I like to dream, yes
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I like to do dreamin'
Right between the saw machine
On the cloudy side, I'm better/bigger than I knew
Any place it goes is fine
Goes far, flies near
Big stars away from here
I like to dream
Right between the sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is fine
Goes far, flies near
To the stars away from here
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I like to dream
 Yes, yes 'specially 'bout my submarine.
I like to dream
 Yes, yes, right between my sound machine.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I looked all around, 
lots of camels is all I found
I looked all around, 
a lousy candle is all I found
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I looked around, and lots of camels was all I found
I looked around,a lousy candle was all I found
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I looked around,
a Lysol can was all I found
I looked around,
a lousy candle was all I found
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I looked around
 A match and candle's all I found
I looked around
 A lousy candle's all I found
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
I'm a Maverick puppet, right?
On a magic carpet ride
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I heard a lettuce laugh.
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I heard a lettuce plan
And sorta wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well someone came and took my life away
I looked around, a lousy can was all I found
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
 And so I wished that I could stay.
 Before the thing could answer me
Well someone came and took the lamp away
 I looked around, a lousy candle was all I found
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I heard and let it slam
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I held a lantern's lamp
Last night I held Alladin's lamp
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I held a letter plan
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the half away I looked around
A lousy cat is all out of town
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away I looked around
A lousy candle's all I found
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I held a lettered flame
Last night, I held Aladdin's lamp.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I held a lettuce land
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I held a lettuce, and...
Last night I held Aladdin's Lamp
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I hold a lettuce lamp
Last night I hold Aladdin's lamp
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I hold the lettuce gland
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I owned a lettuce lamp
 And sort of wished that I could stay
 Before the thing could answer me
 Someone came and took the lamp away
 I looked around, a lousy can was all I found
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
 And so I wished that I could stay.
 Before the thing could answer me
 well someone came and took the lamp away
 I looked around, a lousy candle was all I found
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night I went to Lenin's land
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night at home I let it slam
Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Last night, I made some lettuce laugh.
Last night, I held Aladdin's lamp.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Look inside for
Look inside, girl
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
On America's park and ride
On a magic carpet ride
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
On a Maverick carpet ride
On a magic carpet ride
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
On the driver's side, I drift on the night.
On a cloud of sound, I drift in the night.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Right between the saw machine
Right between the sound machine
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Right between the slot machine
 Of the cloud I'm starting every night.
Right between the sound machine
 On a cloud of sound I drift in the night.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Right between the zombie sheep.
Right between the sound machine.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Roll your eyes, girl.
Close your eyes girl.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Well someone came and took my life away
Well someone came and took the lamp away
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Well you don't know I just see goodbye
 Why don't you talk with me little girl
 On a bed it's all put right.
Well, you don't know what we could find
 Why don't you come with me little girl
 On a magic carpet ride?
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Why don't you come with me little girl, on america's bump and grind
Why don't you come with me little girl on a magic carpet ride
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Why don't you come with me little girl
 On a magic Falcon ride?
Why don't you come with me little girl
 On a magic carpet ride?
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Why don't you come with me little girl
 On a magic pony ride?
Why don't you come with me little girl
 On a magic carpet ride?
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Why don't you fly in the sea?
Why don't you tell your dreams to me?
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Why don't you sell your feet to me
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Why don't you take your drinks to me?
 Than to see will set you free.
Why don't you tell your dreams to me?
 Fantasy will set you free.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
Why don't you tell your dreams to me?
Fantasy is chicken feed.
Why don't you tell your dreams to me?
Fantasy will set you free.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
You don't know what the weed can see
You don't know what we can see
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
You don't know, girl, what we can see
 Why don't you share your dreams with me
 And wrap your seahorse in the debris?
You don't know what we can see
 Why don't you tell your dreams to me?
 Fantasy will set you free.
 
"Magic Carpet Ride" (MP3) 
You should go
You should know
 
She asked me baby
She asked me maybe
 
"Straight Shootin' Woman" (MP3) 
She keeps her certified reasonable order.
She keeps her cylinder greased and loaded.
 
"Straight Shootin' Woman" (MP3) 
She's a southern girl greased, and Lordy!
She keeps her cylinder greased and loaded.
 
I'd cut him if he stands.
I'd shoot him if he runs and I'd kill him with my Bible.
And I'd raise the rent.
I'd cut him if he stands.
I'd shoot him if he runs and I'd kill him with my Bible
And my razor and gun
I like mine better. Lends a little humor to it.