In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
  At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
  Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
  Chrome wheeled, fuel injected
  and steppin' out over the line
  Baby this town rips the bones from your back
  It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
  We gotta get out while we're young
  `Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
    Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
  I want to guard your dreams and visions
  Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims
  and strap your hands across my engines
  Together we could break this trap
  We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back
  Will you walk with me out on the wire
  `Cause 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
    Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
  The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
  And the boys try to look so hard
  The amusement park rises bold and stark
  Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
  I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight
  In an everlasting kiss
    The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
  Everybody's out on the run tonight
  but there's no place left to hide
  Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness
  I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
  Someday girl I don't know when
  we're gonna get to that place
  Where we really want to go
  and we'll walk in the sun
  But till then tramps like us
  baby we were born to run