Lyrics to
Slick Black Cadillac

This version of Slick Black Cadillac was released by Quiet Riot in 1978.

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Ooooo, Just a big black set of wheels
Is what it takes to get me off
I’m gonna drive all night
Spin my wheels all night
It feels all right
It feels all right

I don’t need no drivers license
I’m too reckless to survive
It’s like a carburetor instigator
Feels all right
Feels all right

Drivin’ in a Slick Black Cadillac
It’s got solid gold hubcaps
It makes me feel like a king
I only need one thing
And that’s a Slick Black Cadillac (get up)

You know I got a fully equipped rock ‘n’ roll machine
At speeds that take me high, high, high
At dead man’s curve
I only hear one word drive, drive, drive
Drive, drive, drive

My machine is making headlines
It gives me love and everything
It’s like an institution of revolution
It feels all right
Feels all right

Drivin’ in a Slick Black Cadillac
It’s got solid gold hubcaps
It makes me feel like a king
I only need one thing
And that’s a Slick Black Cadillac (pull over, woooo)

I got the coppers on my tail
Just for me an A.P.B.
The sirens spinnin’
Though it’s me who’s winnin’
There’re after me
There’re after me

Before they know just what happened
I disappeared to their surprise
I got a Cadillac monkey on my back
And I don’t mind
No, I don’t mind

Drivin’ in a Slick Black Cadillac
It’s got solid gold hubcaps
It makes me feel like a king
I only need one thing
And that’s a Slick Black Cadillac (hold on)

Slick Black Cadillac
It’s got solid gold hubcaps

Slick Black Cadillac

I lay it down, spin wide and get laid in back, oh yeah

Drivin’ in a Slick Black Cadillac
It makes me feel like a king, alright!

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About Lyrics and Slick Black Cadillac by Quiet Riot

When you decide to study the lyrics to Slick Black Cadillac, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Quiet Riot. Some of the lyrics to Slick Black Cadillac have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Quiet Riot and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Slick Black Cadillac if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Slick Black Cadillac" means the words set to the music of Slick Black Cadillac, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Quiet Riot. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Slick Black Cadillac and the lyrics to Slick Black Cadillac are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Quiet Riot who came here looking just for the lyrics to Slick Black Cadillac, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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