Chrome Is Where The Heart Is

Story Behind The Song

Wrote this for Joan Jett.

Song Description

Badass motorcycle mama!

Song Length 2:46 Genre Rock - Americana, Rock - Classic
Lead Vocal Male Vocal Subject Motorcycles, Spirituality
Similar Artists ZZ Top, John Melencamp Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

ON THE DAY SHE WAS BORN,
THEY SWEAR IT'S FACT
WHEN THE DOCTOR SLAPPED HER
SHE SLAPPED HIM BACK.

HER MOTORCYCLE MAMA'S
ONLY CHILD
SHE WAS BORN TO RIDE
SHE WAS BORN TO BE.....DO WE REALLY GOTTA SPELL IT OUT FOR YA.

THEY ROCKED HER TO SLEEP
TO MISSISSIPPI QUEEN
GOT HER FIRST TATTOO
WHEN SHE WAS SWEET SIXTEEN

IT SAID

CHROME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
CHROME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
RIDIN LOW IN THE SADDLE
SETS YOUR SOUL ON FIRE
AND THAT HEAVY METAL THUNDER
TAKES YOU HIGHER AND HIGHER
CHROME IS WHERE THE HEART IS.

MILWAUKEE TO STURGIS
THE HALLOWED ROUTE
TRACED IN EVERY CREASE
OF HER STEEL-TOE BOOTS

BLACK-TOP HEAVEN
HAS CAST IT'S SPELL
AS SHE WAILS ALONG
ON THE HIGHWAY TO......LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW THE SONG, ANGEL.

SOMEDAY,
WHEN SHE'S LAID TO REST
DRAPED ON HER CROSS
WILL BE HER LEATHER VEST

READIN'
CHROME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
CHROME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
RIDIN LOW IN THE SADDLE
SETS YOUR SOUL ON FIRE
AND THAT HEAVY METAL THUNDER
TAKES YOU HIGHER AND HIGHER
CHROME IS WHERE THE HEART IS.

Lyrics Terry Abrahamson, Derrick Procell Music Derrick Procell
Producer Derrick Procell Publisher Saw Rite Music BMI, Rolling Fork Music BMI
Performance Derrick Procell-Vocals, keys, programming, Bobby Diamond-guitars

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