Desperate Dan was a solitary man, a loner
He had a girl but I guess he'd just outgrown her
It's hard to dig but he made his big decision
Became the man who ate his car, collision
They spread the news to every local station
Come see the guy who swallows cars, sensation
They said he couldn't digest it, but he just went ahead
and undressed it
Mechanic in a panic, oh what a state.
He ate his meal full of steel from a plate.
Munched his way into a million hearts as he ate the tires
and the spare parts.
Some guys do anything to be seen, on the screen,
what a dream, its obscene.
Now it's clear that his career took a wrong turn,
the Golden Gate on a dinner date,
Heartburn, heartburn, heartburn
He's left the earth in a multi-berth Apollo
Venus and Mars, the rest of the stars to swallow.