Name: BILLY (He's Red-Lining)
Duration: 4 min 23 s
Channel: Van Clayton Powel
Description: "BILLY (He's Red-Lining)" is a song by VanClaytonPowel. "Burning down the highway on a good-looking Harley / Running from a lover's goodbye" Rock (M/F)

BILLY (He's Red-Lining)

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"Burning down the highway on a good-looking Harley / Running from a lover's goodbye" Rock (M/F)

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VanClaytonPowel

Folk - Country - Jazz - Pop

A broad range of genres and production values - from studio work to raw live performances on acoustic instruments back in the days of killer tape hiss. (All were produced as song demos vs artist demos.) IF YOU'RE A LYRIC FAN, click on the "full" or "full song info" line and play the songs from there. That way you can read the lyrics at the bottom of the page as the song plays. I am guilty of all the words, music, arrangements, production, and male vocals. Fortunately, for both you AND me, friends handled the female vocals. (Thanks Leanne, Bodra, Dianne, & Roxanne!) See ya out there!

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Rock General

Charts

Peak #291

Peak in subgenre #106

Author

Van Clayton Powel

Rights

VeePo Music

Uploaded

May 31, 2014

Track Files

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MP3 4.0 MB • 128 kbps • 4:23

Lyrics

BILLY (HE’S RED-LINING)

Burning down the highway on a good-looking Harley
Running from a lover’s goodbye
Leaning on the corners like he leaned on his lady
Leaning ‘til the sparks are flying
Tattoo on his arm is of the Reaper waiting
Waiting for somebody to cry
Oh no, Billy don’t care if he dies

He’s red-lining (Oh yeah, but he’s running free)
Red-lining (Never be what you want him to be)
He’s red-lining (Right out of control)

Pulling on the throttle ‘til he can’t hear the voices
Screaming at him, burning inside
Everybody wondering what happened to Billy
He used to be his Momma’s pride
But all he got at school was a major in dealing
Good lays and a kilo of lies
Oh yeah, Billy’s a king of disguise

He’s red-lining (Oh yeah, but he’s running free)
Red-lining (Never be what you want him to be)
He’s red-lining (Right out of control)

Billy hit the corner with the wind in his helmet
Screaming out a final farewell
Demon underneath him at a hundred and twenty
Carried Billy right into hell
Nobody’d believed he’d ever make it to thirty
Many thought he’d die any day
And oh yeah, Billy he’d liked it that way

He’s red-lining (Oh yeah, but he’s running free)
Red-lining (Never be what you want him to be)
He’s red-lining (Right out of control)

©2010 Van Clayton Powel

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