Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

It's after midnight in the city of broken dreams

Down in the alley, Galileo meets his pack of thieves

Over the river by the old hotel

 There's a big car coming like a bat out of Hell

It's the dangerous stranger in his ghostly limou---sine.

Verse 2

You get the feeling that he's running in an endless race

Driving through the city like a razor across its face

Stops on the corner in a flash of flame

  He calls to me ('Hey boy, what's your name?)

He's the stranger with a danger if you ever get to play his game.

Chorus

I want to go for a ride

 To see what lies on the other side

(D-EEE, D-EEE, D-EEE)

I want to go for a ride tonight, tonight.

Verse 3

I climb right in, like a fool I say I'll go

I listen to the messages comin' through his radi----o

Is that my name on channel 9? They say

  ('You're going away for a long long time')

With the dangerous stranger from a station on the other side.

Chorus

I want to go for a ride

 To see what lies on the other side

(D-EEE, D-EEE, D-EEE)

I want to go for a ride tonight, tonight.

Verse 4

The night is black and the stars no longer burn

The radio says that we're past the point of no return

I scream at the driver but he says

 ('No way, you shouldn't have come if you didn't want to stay')

He's the dangerous stranger on a highway to the end of time

He's the dangerous stranger on a highway to the end of time.

Ending guitar solo is over a chord progression of:

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