Unsafe at Any Speed

Accelerating the mortality rate As I speed toward your fetid fate Vehicular slaughter, my preferred comportment A tally demarcated in my glove compartment A white line nightmare White-knuckle thrills beyond compare Entrails enmeshed in my grill Another road, another kill Be afraid, unsafe at any speed Look both ways, unsafe at any speed Accelerate, unsafe at any speed Never safe at any speed Screaming wheels grind your face into bits Innards-sprayed undercarriage, caked bile, guts and shit Skull cracks under steel-belted tread The pavement is spattered, green, black and red Stop on red, leave on amber Screaming in fear, you stumble and clamber Legs crushed under-wheel as you scream Femur caught in the axle, death's smell, gasoline Be afraid, unsafe at any speed Look both ways, unsafe at any speed Accelerate, unsafe at any speed Never safe The cry of the engine, screams in the night Drowning out desperate pleas, last gasps of fright Life flashes before you, just before you're passed Driven to madness, I press down the gas A red-inked scorecard of human wreckage Death on four wheels, in my horror-drawn carriage Swap notes on the bloody road left behind us In our wake, twisted metal and human detritus A race to the end of all roads Measured in bodies, horsepower, and blood Remains dry in the heat in the cracks Red-blood caked asphalt now curdling black Be afraid, unsafe at any speed Look both ways, unsafe at any speed Accelerate, unsafe at any speed Never safe at any speed