High Speed Los Angeles Car Chase Blues

Story Behind The Song

Evan Phillips and I were staying at a hotel on the Sunset Strip kitty corner from the Whiskey A-Go-Go with a Canadian music publisher who had the hotel suite and offered it up for us to relax. After rolling some fat doobs we noticed a live car chase scene on TV and laughed about how you would never see something like that on TV in Alaska...it's primarily a big city phenomenon. After a short while we start penning lyrics to a simple blues riff and the song finished itself in less than an hour.

Song Description

High energy blues-rock song about a guy who gets into some trouble with the law and decides to "go for it" becoming one of the many "live car chase" scenes you see on television in Los Angeles.

Song Length 4:01 Genre Blues - Rock
Tempo Fast (151 - 170) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Frenzied, Tense Subject Cars, Road
Similar Artists ZZ Top, Kings Of Leon Language English

Lyrics

high speed los angeles car chase blues
written by matt hopper & evan phillips

They tried to give me a ticket
But I'm not gonna pay
Cops got me running circles
I'm gonna give 'em something to talk about today
You'll see me live on the breaking news I've got those
High speed Los Angeles car chase blues

I've got a full tank of gas
We're on the surface streets
The gray fuzz is all around me now
Eventually they'll be on me by feet
You'll see me live on the nightly news I've got those High speed Los Angeles car chase blues

Helicopters are flying
News crews get in line
My friends call me on my cell phone but I'd don't got the time
They saw me live on the breaking news I've got these
High speed Los Angeles car chase blues

It's not like I'm running cocaine or even robbed a bank
My cars a Camry 1991
They're trying to run me to an empty gas tank
I'm here to win, I'm not here to lose I've got those High speed Los Angeles car chase blues

I'm here to win I'm not here to lose
I'm here to win I'm not here to lose
I'm here to win I'm not here to lose I've got these High Speed Los Angeles Car Chase Blues

Lyrics Matt Hopper/Evan Phillips Music Matt Hopper & The Roman Candles
Producer Matt Hopper Publisher Matt Hopper
Performance Matt Hopper / Aaron Case / James Dommek Jr. Label Hatcher Pass Records

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