Artist
The Stooges
Lyrics
I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a hide full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb
I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys
Honey gotta help me please
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, detonate for me
Look out honey, 'cause i'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Solar radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey gotta strike a plan
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind
I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
And honey I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin' only to destroy
Forgotten boy, forgotten boy
Forgotten boy said hey forgotten boy
I'm a runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb
I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys
Honey gotta help me please
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, detonate for me
Look out honey, 'cause i'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Solar radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey gotta strike a plan
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind
I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
And honey I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin' only to destroy
Forgotten boy, forgotten boy
Forgotten boy said hey forgotten boy
RS500_rank
468
Length
3:29
BPM
107.4
Released Year
1973
Genre Era
Genre
Key
A m
Produced By
David Bowie
Released Info
April '73 on Columbia
Chart Weeks
Did not chart
Musicbrainz ID
1bdeef09-0c90-d1ed-9496-8d376b28efa1
Song Note Source
Rolling Stone 500
Song of Day Date
Written By
Iggy Pop, James Williamson
Album
Raw Power (Epic)
Song Status
With "raw power," producer Bowie tried to mold the Detroit punks into glam-rock stars like himself. The mixed-bag experiment yielded this feral rocker, inspired by a headline from an article about the Vietnam War. The "streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm" is Iggy Pop himself, who said he wrote it while wearing his cheetah-patterned leather jacket and "snorting big Chinese rocks of heroin."