Motorhead

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This song is about doing speed. A motorhead is someone who uses speed (or speedfreak). Lemmy told Rolling Stone, I wrote that when I was in Hawkwind. We were in the… Read More

Jun. 10, 19771 viewer32K views

Motorhead Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Sunrise, wrong side of another day
Sky high and six thousand miles away
Don't know how long I've been awake
Wound up in an amazing state

[Pre-Chorus]
Can't get enough
And you know it's the righteous stuff
Goes up like prices at Christmas

[Chorus]
Motörhead, remember me now
Motörhead, alright

[Verse 2]
Brain dead, total amnesia
Get some mental anesthesia
Don't move, I'll shut the door and kill the lights
I guess I'll see you all on the ice

[Pre-Chorus]
All good clean fun
Have another stick of gum
Man, you look better already

[Chorus]
Motörhead, remember me now
Motörhead, alright

[Interlude]
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam! Ow, ow!

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
Fourth day, five day marathon
We're moving like a parallelogram
Don't move, I'll shut the door and kill the lights
I guess I'll see you all on the ice

[Pre-Chorus]
I should be tired
And all I am is wired
Ain't felt this good for an hour

[Chorus]
Motörhead, remember me now
Motörhead, alright
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Outro]
Motörhead, remember me now
Motörhead, it's only you now
Motörhead, only you, babe
Motörhead, yeah, yeah, yeah

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About

This song is about doing speed. A motorhead is someone who uses speed (or speedfreak).

Lemmy told Rolling Stone,

I wrote that when I was in Hawkwind. We were in the studio doing the last album that I was on, Warrior on the Edge of Time. We started playing and it caught on and we put it on the B side of “Kings of Speed.” The song was about speed and it was an issue to Hawkwind, and that’s why I got fired. I never asked them what they thought of Motörhead after that. I didn’t care what they thought of it. I don’t think of “Motörhead” as a defining song, though. That song’s long gone for me now.