Burn the Candle

Verse 1

I was the kid your parents warned you about

Cool—all the girls wanted to be my girl

We’d line 'em up and race cars around our town

Living fast in a blacktop world

Chorus

We burned the candle at both ends

Life was short, so we stuffed as much of life

Into the hours we had to spend

Yeah, we burned the candle at both ends

Verse 2

The wrong kid at the wrong time

We were young, but we filled our lives with fun

Not looking in the future, just living for the day

Like there was no tomorrow, and nowhere left to run

Verse 3

We were young gearheads, true motorheads

We could tell what kind of car it was just by the taillights

We chased the darkness right into the light of day

We loved everything with a motor, from the motorcycles to the muscle cars we drove

Chorus

We burned the candle at both ends

Life was short, so we stuffed as much of life

Into the hours we had to spend

Yeah, we burned the candle at both ends

Verse 4

Get your motor running, we love to hear the sound

Of an engine shifting hard down the road

When they drop that red flag, we’re ready to race

Blasting through the quarter mile, heavy on the load