I was born in a hurry but there wasn't any place to go   Nowhere fast seemed better than nowhere slow   I never really got the hang a hangin' around   When you get down to it   I guess I always knew it   What it is that makes my world go 'round      It's a matter of horsepower   For 8 seconds on miles an hour   It's the way I am and it's a fact I can't ignore   Yea, big four legged, fuel injected   Running wild and radar detected   Man can always stand a little bit more   Horsepower      Well the view looks better from ahead than it looks behind   I got a need to speed and I don't mean the drugs-store kind   Some people like a life that barely moves at all   I say more power to 'em   Then I fly right through 'em   Til it slows down to a crawl      Then I think about horsepower   For 8 seconds on miles per hour   It's the way I am and it's a fact I can't ignore   Yea, big four legged, fuel injected   Running wild and radar detected   Man can always stand a little bit more   Horsepower      I been thinkin' bout horsepower   For 8 seconds on miles per hour   It's the way I am and it's a fact I can't ignore   Yea, big four legged, fuel injected   Running wild and radar detected   Man can always stand a little bit more   Horsepower