Motorcycle songs

Today's iPod playlist was all motorcycle-related songs.

The Other Kind, Steve Earle
I'm back out on that road again, turn this beast into the wind
There are those that break and bend, I'm the other kind
I'm the other kind

See, it used to be I was really free, didn't need no gasoline to run
Before you could say Jack Kerouac and turn your back, I'd be gone
Yeah but nowadays I got me two good wheels
And I seek refuge in aluminum and steel
It takes me out there for just a little while
And the years fall away with every mile

The Motorcycle Song, Arlo Guthrie
I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride on my motorsikkle!
I don't wan't a tickle, I just want to ride on my motorsikkle!
I don't want to die, I just want to ride on my motorcy.......cle!

Bat out of Hell, Meatloaf
I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram, on a silver and black phantom bike
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry, and we're all about to see the light....

I can see myself, tearing up the road faster than any other boy has ever gone
And my skin is rough but my soul is ripe
Ano ones gonna stop me now, I gotta make my escape
But I can't stop thinking of you
And I never see the sudden curve til it's way too late
No I never see the sudden curve til it's way too late
Then I'm dying on the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun,
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell
And the last thing I see is my heart, still beating and breaking out of my body
And flying away like a bat out of hell

New Sensations, Lou Reed
I took my GPZ out for a ride
The engine felt good between my thighs
The air felt cool, its was 40 degrees outside

I rode to Pennsylvania near the Delaware gap
Sometimes I got lost and had to check the map
I stopped at a roadside diner for a burger and a coke

There were some country folk and some hunters inside
Somebody got themselves married and somebody died
I went to the juke box and played a hillbilly song

They was arguing about football as I waved and went outside
And I headed for the mountains feeling warm inside
I love that GPZ so much, you know that I could kiss her

Ghost Rider, Rush
(of course, the whole song is about motorcycling, so here's an excerpt I especially like):

Sunrise in the mirror, lightens that invisible load
Riding on a nameless quest, haunting that wilderness road
Like a ghost rider

Just an escape artist, racing against the night
A wandering hermit, racing toward the light

From the white sands
To the canyon lands
To the redwood stands
To the barren lands

Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory on suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line....

...baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real

Unknown Legend, Neil Young
Somewhere on a desert highway, she rides a Harley-Davidson
Her long blonde hair flyin in the wind
She's been runnin half her life
The chrome and steel she rides, colliding with the very air she breathes
The air she breathes.

Motorcycle Mama, Neil Young
Motorcycle Mama, won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama, won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble when you bring it round
Motorcycle Mama, won't you lay it down.

I'm runnin', I'm runnin', I'm runnin', down the proud highway
Yeah, I'm runnin', I'm runnin', I'm runnin' down the proud highway
And as long as I keep movin' I won't need a place to stay.

----

OK, readers, what else have you got? Any other good ones I'm missing?

Comments

[Hokey]

"Ride" - Joe Satriani "Flying in a Blue Dream"

I know some people like to take life easy,
That's not my style.
I'm not the type to let this life tease me,
I'm gonna make it wild.

I just wanna ride,
Get on my bike and ride.

Some people think you've got to live your life one way,
I disagree.
I'm not gonna pay attention to them anyway,
It's got nothing, nothing to do with me.

Life is so short, we've got
No time to waste at all.

I just wanna ride,
Get on my bike and ride.
I just wanna ride,
Get on my bike and ride.

I see the road, as it opens up before me,
I feel the heat.
I'm gonna go where I want, when I want to.
I've got to be free.

I just wanna ride,
Get on my bike and ride.
I just wanna ride,
Get on my bike and ride.

Feels so right...
Feels so right...

[Voman]

How 'bout this Judas Priest tune - Dessert Plains

Full moon is rising
The sky is black
I heed your call I'm coming back
The road is straight cast
Wind's in my eyes
The engine roars between my thighs

From desert plains I bring you love
From desert plains I bring you love

Wild mountain thunder
Echoes my quest
My body aches but I'll not rest
Quartz light to guide me
Till sunrise leads
My passion screams, my heart it bleeds

From desert plains I bring you love
From desert plains I bring you love

Then in the distance
I see you stand
On the horizon you raise your hand
In burning rubber
I end my quest
You fall into my arms and rest

From desert plains I bring you love
From desert plains I bring you love

Or this classic Outlaws song "Ghost Riders in the Sky"

An old cowpoke went ridin' out one dark and windy day,
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw
A plowin' through the ragged skies and up a cloudy draw.

Yipie i ay Yipie i oh
Ghost herd in the sky

Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky
He saw the riders coming hard... and he heard their mournful cry

Yipie i ay Yipie i oh
Ghost riders in the sky.

Their face is gaunt their eyes were blurred their shirts all soaked
with sweat
They're ridin' hard to catch that herd but they 'aint caught 'em yet
'cause they've got to ride forever in the range up in the sky
On horses snorting fire as they ride hard hear them cry

Yipie i ay Yipie i oh
Ghost riders in the sky.

The riders leaned on by him he heard one call his name
If you want to save your soul from hell a riding on our range
Then cow-boy change your ways today or with us you will ride
Tryin' to catch this devil herd.... a-cross these endless
skies.

Yipie i ay Yipie i oh
Ghost riders in the sky.
Ghost riders in the sky.

[some1else]

Free and Easy (down the road I go)

by Dierks Bentley

first line is a pair of boots and a sack of clothes ...

[Frizlefrak]

How about "Ride" by Warrant.

I don't need love, I just need gasoline
A broken line so I can pass the things that
Try to slow me down, or get in my way.

I don't need someone holding on too tight
I'd rather have a warm clean summer night
Miles of empty road, wind in my face.

(chorus)
Gimme a life to ride...and leave what I hate behind.
Outta sight outta mind...Gimme a life to ride.

Now this one wants a brand new picket fence
This one wants his wife to make some sense
Neither one remembers ever being free.

Now I control my life and destiny
Yes I am king of everything I see
Nothing gonna suck my life away...never gonna be a slave...

(chorus)

[Dave H]

There's a great track off of the soundtrack to "Gonzo", the Hunter S. Thompson documentary, called "Gonzo's Honest Run", describing Thompson's love of screwing it on, even though he'd ostensibly just gone out to clear a few cobwebs from inside his head...

[red_razor]

Motorcycle Mama, Harpo (1996 - Movie Star)
Motorcycle Ride, Rancid (1994 - Let's Go)
Motorcycle Mama, Sailcat (1972 - Motorcycle Mama)

[REDANDWHITE]

Call me the breeze -lynyrd skynyrd !!!
On the road again -canned heat
tush -zz top
la grange -zz top
gimme all your lovin' -zz top

[Ron]

Golden Age of Leather - Blue Oyster Cult
Feel the Thunder - Blue Oyster Cult
Against the Wind - Bob Seger

[Tim]

How about "panheads forever" by David Allen Coe

[Ric]

Take a look at the motorcycle songs collection called "Motorcycle gang"..
Old and bad rock'n'roll songs!!

http://www.nutsie.com/album/Motorcycle%20Gang/7025482

[asd]

David allan Coe- Panheads forever or harley someday or when I was a young

[Kelley Herr-Roadruck]

Harley-Davidson Blues by Canned Heat ...is a must motorcycle song!

Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf ...does not mention motorcycles, but the analogy fits!! My bike is named "the magic carpet ride".

[Kelley Herr-Roadruck]

MAGIC CARPET RIDE

I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

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

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

[Kurt]

What about the Beach Boys - Little Honda? Not a HD song, but still qualifies as a motorcycle (sort of) :-)

[Zimm]

I'm not a country fan, but this one has really grown on me - Toby Keith: Time for Me to Ride

I hate forums passionately, but this one has been a great experience. Thanks everyone!