Story Behind The Song

My day job was working in a nuclear power plant. There was special filters for the reactor water called DEMINrelizer filters. They were located under the floor in a hallway that was nicknamed "DEMIN ALLEY". For quite a while I thought it was called "DEMON ALLEY" maybe because of high radiation levels (not). Anyway the name Demon Alley sounded like a place in the desert in Nevada or Arizona, so I made up a story around it

Song Description

It's a desolate part of the desert on the way to California, the promised land. Will he make it? Does his passenger really love him? Willing to die chasing passion?

Lyrics

Twisted snake deadly as a gun
On a lake of fire in the sun
Half ton of steel wrapped between my legs
Vibrations I feel through the highway pegs

Writhing blacktop wind like a knife
Freedom's jackpot could cost me my life
I chase the devil and I do it just for fun
Straight though hell on the Demon Alley run

Come with me child before it's too late
Runnin' wild temptation waits
Race the black ribbon stabbed by the light
Souls unforgiven scream in the night
Cross the wasteland cooled by your flood
Taste the hot sand, fire in my blood
Make no promise as we become one
Lost in life's kiss on the Demon Alley run

Rollin' thunder take me away
Don't let me know if this is the day
On mountain high into the sun
I'll live or die on a Demon Alley Run