Overload (album)/Fuel

These are the lyrics to Fuel, a song originally released on American heavy metal band Metallica's "ReLoad" album in 1997. The song is about cars and the adrenaline kick you get off riding fast cars. On the album Overload, the superstar had decided to take on a new lifestyle with new objectives in mind, taking a spin in their car at high speed only to eventually crash at fatal speeds and wind up in the hospital, where they spend their final days alive.

Lyrics
'' Gimme fuel, gimme fire Gimme that which I desire, ooh! Yeah...

Yeah, turn on... I see red Adrenaline crash, and crack my head Nitro-junkie, paint me dead And I see red

A hundred plus, through black and white War horse... full 'head... Fuck 'em, man! White knuckle tight! Through black and white

Ooh... on I burn Fuel is pumping engines Burning hard, loose and clean And then I burn, turning my direction Quench my thirst with gasoline

So, gimme fuel, gimme fire Gimme that which I desire! Yeah!

Turn on, beyond the bone Swallow future, spit out hope Burn your face upon the chrome Yeah-h'eah, oh yeah

Take the corner, join the crash, ya Headlights (head-on), headlines Another junkie lives too fast Yeah, lives way too fast, fast, fast

Whoa-oh... ooh... on I burn Fuel is pumping engines Burning hard, loose and clean And then I burn, turning my direction Quench my thirst with gasoline

So, gimme fuel, gimme fire Gimme that which I desire! Ooh, yeah

White knuckle tight

Ooh, gimme fuel Gimme fire My desire

Ooh... on I burn Fuel is pumping engines Burning hard, loose and clean And then I burn, turning my direction Quench my thirst with gasoline

Gimme fuel, gimme fire Gimme that which I desire! Ooh!

On I burn ''

Trivia

 * The song, among several others from Load and ReLoad, was given orchestral treatment in the album S&M.