Feb 7, 2023

I'm A Street-Walking Cheetah With A Heart Full Of Napalm



Raw Power
Iggy & The Stooges (1973)
The record that both Johnny Marr and Kurt Cobain listed as their favorite album of all time is turning 50 years old today.  The third album from The Stooges was decades ahead of its time.  I heard a few songs off of Raw Power for the first time around 1994 and I thought it was a new record from an unsigned band.  It's a half century old today and I still don't think the world has caught up to it.
I'm a street-walking cheetah
With a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb
I am a 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
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a firefight

Honey, gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind

And 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

Look out honey 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a firefight

Honey, gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind

And 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', searchin' to destroy

Forgotten boy...