Hell in a Fast Car - Jamie Lenman

Every decade a wave of new bands hit the clubs and bars

Angry and hungry and young with a sound like they come from Mars

Breaking those rules and precedents, making old fools irrelevant

Hey!

I got their teeth in my neck and I don’t mind

Every summer, I die a little more

Every summer…

To finally get beaten

It feels just like being eaten

We’re going to hell in a fast car with top down and no seat belts

Grab hold of art, enjoy it

But then you must destroy it

We’re going to hell in a fast car with the top down and no seat belts

Rock and roll is all about the fresh and new

Why would you do something someone else did do?

Stick those records in your open mouth and chew

It’ll make you grow strong

I put my contribution in

Now I’m just food for children

I have met my murderers, shook their hands

Said «Thank you, sirs»

Happy to be obsolete

Every summer, I die a little more

(I die just a little bit)

Every summer…

To finally get beaten

It feels just like being eaten

We’re going to hell in a fast car with top down and no seat belts

Grab hold of art, enjoy it

But then you must destroy it

We’re going to hell in a fast car with the top down and no seat belts

It is your sacred duty

To assimilate all this beauty

Redefine what music should be

Make the past seem dull and ugly

You fail if your output doesn’t

Render everything before redundant

I never had the guts to do it

In my heart, I guess I always knew it