In the day we sweat it out on the streets

Of a runaway American dream

At night we ride through mansions of glory

In suicide machines

Sprung from cages on a highway nine

Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected, steppin' all over the line

Maybe this game rips the bones from our backs

It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap

We're gonna do it while we're young

'Cause bands like us, maybe we were born to run

Please let me in, I wanna be your friend

I wanna guide your visions and dreams

Just strap your legs 'round these velvet rims

And hold on to my themes

Together we can break this trap

We'll run 'til we drop

And maybe we'll never go back

Will you walk with me on the wire?

'Cause I'm just a scared and lonely rider

With all that's missing and gone

Well, bands like us, maybe we were born to run

This highway's jammed with broken heroes

On a last-chance power drive

Everybody's on the run tonight

But there's no place left to hide

Together we can live with the sadness

I love you with all the madness in my soul

Someday girl, I don't know when

We're gonna get to that place we really want to go

And we'll walk in the sun

Till then bands like us, maybe we were born to run

Maybe we were born to run

Maybe we were born to run