Album: A Night At The Opera (1975)

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• Oh
  The machine of a dream
  Such a clean machine
  With the pistons a-pumpin'
  And the hubcaps all gleam
  
  When I'm holding your wheel
  All I hear is your gear
  With my hand on your grease gun
  Mmm, it's like a disease, son
  
  I'm in love with my car
  Got a feel for my automobile
  Get a grip on my boy racer roll bar
  Such a thrill when your radials squeal
  
  Told my girl I'll have to forget her
  Rather buy me a new carburetor
  So she made tracks saying this is the end now
  Cars don't talk back they're just four-wheeled friends now
  
  When I'm holding your wheel
  All I hear is your gear
  When I'm cruisin' in overdrive
  Don't have to listen to no run-of-the-mill talk jive
  
  I'm in love with my car (I'm in love with my car, love with my car)
  Got a feel for my automobile
  I'm in love with my car (I'm in love with my car, love with my car)
  String back gloves in my automo-love Writer/s: Roger Meddows Taylor
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Steve from Deale, Md 20751, UsaWay back when, when I had Corvette this way my favorite song
• Nikole from Howard County, MarylandRoger Taylor is my love of my lifeeeeeeeee
• A Random Guy from EarthFred: I'm in love with my cats
  Brian: I'm in love with my wife
  John: I'm in love with my bass
  Roger I'M IN LOVE WITH MY CAR
• Robert from Houston, TxI heard that too, Lindsey, and it makes sense when you consider that "Bohemian Rhapsody" was the A-side and that Queen's record deal paid royalties as equal halves to the writers of the A and B sides. As "Bo Rhap" became the UK's third best selling single of all time, Roger became a very wealthy man from these royalties. Not bad for a song Brian May thought was a joke when it was demo'd by Roger.
• Thomas from Somerville, AlThis song rocks! It is yet another showcase of the great musical talent of the band and of Mercurys vocal. Come to think of it, I don't recall hearing a song by Queen that I didn't like
• Lindsay from Coweta, OkApparently, and this may or may not be true, but Roger Taylor begged for this to be put on the B-side of the album. When Freddie said no, he locked himslef in a cupboard until he agreed to it!
• Charles from Glenside, PaOr perhaps 'automolove' is just a cute way of referring to auto-eroticism.But I'll refrain from reading any illicit meaning into any Queen song.
• Pablo from Santiago, ChileI've heard two different truth versions of this song. The first one tells that the song is really a sarcastic view of a crappy van that the band used in one of their very first tours through England. The other one is that Roger, being a car fan, wrote the song about one of his favourites: an Alfa Romeo.
• Paul from Rothesay, New Brunswick , CanadaI watched an interview with Roger, where he sits down with an acoustic guitar and plays the song for a bit, the same way he did many years before when he auditioned the song for Brian May. Roger goes on to say that Brian's reaction was "You're kidding, right?" A Queen classic!

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