Sammy Hagar : Street Machine

Hard Rock / USA
(1979 - Capitol Records)
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1. GROWING PAINS

I got tired of my present situation
So I tried rollin' over the stone.
Even tried to make a change of occupation
But, my conscience wouldn't leave me alone.
You know, even the rich have their problems.
I mean, you never quite get enough.
So you drink it away, take it out on the kids.
And all that funky stuff
You got growing pains
You gotta rearrange
Got them growing pains, yeah.
And lately my friends have been tellin' me that
I'm changing way to fast.
If there's one thing I don't want to do
It's rely on my broken-down past.
Because I hear the call of the wild
And opportunity is leanin' on me
And stuck in this town for the rest of my life
Is one place I don't want to be.
I got growing pains
I gotta rearrange
Got them growing pains, yeah.
Growing pains, oh, yeah.
Growing pains.
Oh, how long do you gotta grow?
Yeah, I don't wanna grow any more.
Got them nasty old growing pains!

Picked her up at seven
Feeling pretty good by nine.
We cruise the local hang-outs
It's the same places every time
Just head for the nearest party
Or the darkest back street
And I'm makin' love peepin' over my shoulder
My pants down around my feet
Gives me growing pains.
I gotta rearrange
Got them growing pains.
Got them growing pains.
Yeah, yeah, ow!
Got them growing pains.
Yeah! Uh!
Growing pains
Growing pains
Growing pains
Got them growing pains, yeah, ow!
Growing pains
Growing pains
Growing pains.


2. CHILD TO MAN

Sometimes I feel like a man
With the whole world in the palm of my hand.
And sometimes I know a man wouldn't understand.
And that's when I need you right there by my side
To keep me satisfied.
I see myself, I've got whiskers on my chin.
I've got a feelin' a whole new world is about to begin.
Yeah, it sure looks like it's, it's childhood fears.
When girls turn into ladies and a boy becomes a man.
From child to man.
And my part-time job just doesn't make it anymore
And what used to be fun is turning out ot be a bore
And my mom and dad, they're about to kick me out the door
It's a caravan!
It feels like a straight line from child to man.
From child to man, oh yeah.
Father, I can see what you've been through.
And the road you took, well, it's the best that you could do
And some things you told me, you know,
They turned out to be true.
You said, "When a child get's lonely,
It's no different than a man."
Well, now I understand.
From child to man.
From child to man.
From child to man.


3. TRANS AM (HIGHWAY WONDERLAND)

She's American made, you know what I mean?
Red on black, she's a street machine.
Set's ten inches off the ground with a custom plate
That says I-E-A-T Z28
Trans Am
Trans Am
Trans Am
Highway Wonderland.
Yeah, '79 will be the end of the road.
If you want horse power overload.
Ooh, if you like kicks, just take her to the floor
And you red-line shift them gears feel the engine roar on my
Trans Am
Come on catch me if you can
In my Trans Am, Highway Wonderland.
Trans Am
Trans Am
Trans Am
Highway Wonderland.
And she shines on the street.
And she shines at the heat.
And she shines in my baby's eyes.
And she shines on every other guy's
Trans Am
Trans Am
Trans Am
Highway Wonderland

T-R-A-N-S A-M
Trans Am!

From Daytona Beach down to Riverside
If there's a race, she's qualified.
My six point six gets a little too heavy
For a big block Ford or a 350 Chevy
Trans Am
Come on, catch me if you can in my
Trans Am, Highway Wonderland
Trans Am
Trans Am
Me and my Trans Am
Come on, catch me if you can in my
Trans Am, ooh, Highway Wonderland.
Yeah!
Highway Wonderland!!! Yeah!


4. FEELS LIKE LOVE

Well, now, once in your life maybe if you're lucky
You'll find someone that's right for you.
And when lightning strikes you ready or not
There ain't nothing you can do.
And now, I've got to see her, you know I won't be late.
The hair on my arms is standing up straight.
I've got the shiver's down my backbone, my stomach's turning flips.
I get excited just thinking 'bout her lips.
Yeah, and mother always said, "If it's real you can feel it"
Now my heart's beating fast and my eyes can't conceal it.
It's love,
It sure feels like love.
I know it must be love
It's got to, got to be love.
Cause it feels like
It feels like love
Held up in the night waitin' for the sun
To come up and call it a day.
Well, that moment when you're thinking, about those things.
The ones you just can't say.
I got a feelin' deep inside that I can't explain.
Every time I fell asleep I woke up screaming your name.
Started thinking of you, the feeling got strong.
I jumped out of bed, I couldn't take it any longer.
Just then I thought, "Hey, it's only infatuation"
I see your face and the train left the station
It's love,
It sure feels like love.
I know it must be love
Got to, got to be love.
'Cause it feels like, it feels like love
I'm in love!
Hey!
It sure feels like love.
It's got to, got to be love.
It must be love.
'Cause it sure feels like love.
It must be love.
It sure feels like love.
Yeah! Must be love.
I know it's love.
It's modern love.
Yeah! Got, I said, got to be love.
Must be love
Old fashioned love
I'm in love.
Ow! Huh I'm talking 'bout love.
I'm talkin' 'bout love
Feels like love.


5. PLAIN JANE

She falls somewhere in-between
Levi's and Vogue Magazine
She doesn't paint on her face
But what she does she does with taste.
And you can call her Plain Jane
But she's drivin' me insane
Plain Jane - Oh yeah, you're drivin' me insane.
Plain Jane - Oh, let me love you baby, yeah!
She kisses with her lips so tight.
Ooh, it hit's me just like dynamite.
Her sweet, simple innocence
Makes everyone else seem like past tense
And you can call her Plain Jane
But she's drivin' me insane.
Plain Jane - Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're drivin' me insane, oh!
Plain Jane - Heave-ho, oh, let me love you, love you, love you, love you,
love you, love you
Takes a special kind of man.
To love and understand
My Plain Jane.
My Plain Jane
Talkin' 'bout my baby.
My Plain Jane - Oh yea.
Plain Jane
Uh-huh, my Plain Jane
Ain't no body else no.
Plain Jane
Tellin' you you're drivin me insane.
Her smile comes on insecure.
But her eyes, they let you know for sure.
Oh, you gotta look hard and deep.
Her kind of lovein', it don't come cheap, no.
And you can call her Plain Jane
But she's drivin' me insane.
My Plain Jane
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're drivin' me insane
Ow!
Plain Jane
I just, what's so bad?
I wanna love you, love you, love you,
love you, love you, love you
Plain Jane - Ow! I'm talkin' 'bout my
Plain Jane - Yeah, yeah, she's my baby.
Plain Jane - See her walkin' down the street,
And I just wanna love you.
My Plain Jane - Come here baby.
Plain Jane - Now, come here baby.
Plain Jane - There ain't nobody else, no, and I'm gonna love you, love you,
love you, love you, love you, love you
Plain Jane - Ow!
Plain Jane - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...


6. NEVER SAY DIE

To fight for my freedom, I don't need a gun or a knife.
I just need some open space to run for my life.
The ground is sinking and the walls closing in.
When I get to the bottom I get up and start all over again.
Just passin' time until the big one.
As we leave it all behind.
And move on up to a brighter future
It's no easy climb.
But I'll never say die...
I'll never say die...
My mom and dad never understood.
But compared to their problems, you know, mine looked good.
They screamed, "Where's the money?" and
"Where's all the love?"
And "Where's the help from the man up above?"
I never gave up my religion
As I did my teenage time.
I said, "When I'm of age, I wanna walk out smilin'
Maybe I'll cry...
But I'll never say die..."
I'll never say die... Ohhh!
Oooh never say die - I'll never say...
Oooh never say die - No I will never, never, never say...
Oooh never say die - Oh, I'll never say die...
Oooh never say die...
Two generations I've been through
'69 was heavy, yea, but, what did it prove?
Just a bunch of hippies could become businessmen
And burn our bodies, a flag, and a couple of friends.
Now as we enter 1980
We're modern humans in a modern time.
So all you children of the '60's
It's no easy climb.
But don't ever say die...
Don't you ever say die... Oh!
Oooh never say die
Oooh never say die - Just stand there, baby!
Oooh never say die - Oh, never say, never say die...
Oooh never say die...


7. THIS PLANET'S ON FIRE

Cancelled flights, limousines,
Hustle bustles, crazy scenes.
First, you're here, then, you're there
Pretty soon, man, you've been everywhere.
Ooh, this planet's on fire
Oh, Satan's desire
We've seen the rise, we'll see the fall
He's here to see us all,
Burn in hell.
Time ticks away, faster, faster.
You run so fast you forget what you're after.
You make a deal to sell your soul
Just to find out, baby, it's been sold.
Ooh, this planet's on fire
Oh, Satan's desire
We've seen the rise, we'll see the fall
He's here to see us all,
Burn in hell.
Burn in hell.
Not me, baby!

Ooh, this planet's on fire
Oh, Satan's desire
We've seen the rise, we'll see the fall
He's here to see us all,
Burn in hell.
Fine, white lines of crystal light
Keep us up all day and all night.
Oh, we just forgot girls and boys
Who thrive on cosmic toys.
Ooh, this planet's on fire
Oh, Satan's desire
We've seen the rise, we'll see the fall
He's here to see us all,
Burn in hell.
Burn in hell, Owwww!!
(This planet's on fire)
(This planet's on fire)
Ooh, this planet's on fire
Oh, Satan's desire
Ooh, this planet's on fire
Oh, Satan's desire, yeah!
Yes!


8. WOUNDED IN LOVE

You used to be the one that I dreamed of
So good for me, or so it seemed.
But, now I can feel there's something around you
And it's uneasy babe, but it's plain to see, yeah.
Tell me, is there a moment when he doesn't linger
Behind your starry eyes, his beaconing fingers.
Pull you so far away from the one who wants you.
Oh, will he ever stay or just tail and taunt you.
You're wounded in love
Forsaken by nature
Oh how you keep trying, you search everywhere.
You're wounded in love
Forsaken by nature
You look in each window but nobody's there.
Wounded in love.
There'll come a time when my heart is stronger
And these, these tears of misery have had their day.
But for your sorry soul the verdict is longer.
And I'd, I'd give it all to you, but not this way.
You're wounded in love
Forsaken by nature
Oh how you keep trying, you search everywhere.
You're wounded in love
Forsaken by nature
You look in each window but nobody's there.
Oooh yeah!
You're wounded in love
Forsaken by nature
Oh how you keep trying, you search everywhere.
You're wounded in love
Forsaken by nature
You look in each window but nobody's there.
Wounded in love.
Wounded in love.
Wounded in love.
You look in each window but nobody's there.
Wounded in love.
Wounded in love.
Wounded in love.
You look in each window but nobody's there.


9. FALLING IN LOVE

I slipped and I fell
You can never tell
She may be waiting around the next corner.
And you may be in you
To fancy perfumes
But when you catch her eyes from the next room.
Falling, falling, falling
Falling in love with you.
Falling, falling, falling,
Falling in love with you.
Falling, falling, falling...
The light in your eyes
Tells me I'm right
The magic in you is touching me.
So hold me tonight
You make everything right
And I won't be ashamed when morning
Shines light on our faces
Falling, falling, falling
Falling in love with you.
Falling, falling, falling,
Falling in love
Falling, falling, falling...
Falling in love
Falling in love
I'm falling in love
Falling in love...
Can't stop thinking about you
I can' t live without you
Tell me anything, babe, but, don't tell me I'm wrong.
A fool and his predictions
A wise man's superstitions
Caught into my intuition, I'm falling in love.
Falling, falling, falling, falling, falling.
I slipped and I fell
You can never tell
She may be waiting around the next corner
And you may be in you
To fancy perfumes
But, when you catch that smile from the next room.
Falling, falling, falling
Falling in love with you.
Falling, falling, falling,
Falling in love with you.
Falling, falling, falling
Falling in love, oh, baby.
Falling, falling, falling,
Falling in love with you.
Falling, falling, falling...
Falling in love with you, oh baby.
Falling, falling, falling,
Falling in love with you


10. STRAIGHT TO THE TOP

You say you like to have a good time
You're no different than the rest
And you know it's not the first time
That you've given it your best.
But for some unknown reason
There's no quest straight to the top
And I can see no reason
Why it's ever gonna stop.
Straight to the top
It ain't never gonna stop
It ain't never gonna stop
Goin' straight to the top
It ain't never gonna stop
Straight to the top
And it feels like forever
Is right there in my hand
No more playin' never, never
With those one night stands
Oh, my temperatures risin'
The thermometer's gonna pop
And I can see no reason
Why it's ever gonna stop
Straight to the top
It ain't never gonna stop
It ain't never gonna stop
We're goin' straight to the top, baby.
It ain't never gonna stop
Straight to the top
Hey, well just you and me, baby.
There's room at the top and we're on our way there.
So don't try to drag us down,
Because we're gonna stay there.
Just you and me
'Cause that's all I ever want it to be, yeah!
Straight to the top!
Straight to the top!
Straight to the top!
Oh there's never any question
When you know she's the one
Yeah, and it's all so plain and simple
Lookin' back at what you've done
Yeah, looking at the future
It sure looks sunny, and bright.
And it's such a good, good feelin'
When you're doin' something right.
It ain't never gonna stop
We're goin' straight to the top, baby.
It ain't never gonna stop
Oh, straight to the top, baby
Straight to the top
Oh Straight to the top.
Straight to the top
Straight to the top
It ain't never gonna stop
Goin' straight to the top, yeah.
Straight to the top.
Straight to the top.
Just you and me, baby,
It ain't never gonna stop.
Straight to the top, whew!
Straight to the top
Straight to the top
Goin' all the way, baby
It ain't never gonna stop.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ow! Yeah, yeah!

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