Buckaroo Banzai Is Not Just A Movie

Day after day, watching Buckaroo Banzai drive across the screen
In his machine, making mincemeat of this plane of existence
"Hey!" His boss would say, "There are customers waiting right here in a line!"
"You're wasting time, there's a fellow here who needs some assistance"

So he quit his job at the video store
Tore off his nametag and walked out the door
Jumped in his Beetle and the light turned green
When he got into bed he had the strangest dream
Of a giant explosion and a grisly scene
Of a skull in the burnt-up body of a bug

Plans in his hands, walking down to Big Ed's Auto Body now
To show them how, to modify his VW beetle
One year later it's done, at the trade show called Our Technological Age
He takes the stage, and he throws back the curtain and says to the people:

Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention!
I'm about to pass over into the eighth dimension!
In my souped-up, modified VW's chassis
I've taken every precaution in the interest of safety
And despite what you're thinking, I'll never end up
As just a skull in the burnt-up body of a bug

Buckaroo Banzai is not just a movie
Buckaroo Banzai is not just a movie
Buckaroo Banzai is not just a movie!

Set inside his jet, gives a wave to everyone from his machine
The light turns green, and he puts on his helmet and flips all the switches

He took off like a rocket at the speed of sound
Shattering windows for m-m-m-m-miles around
Doin' mach seven at the edge of town
He left a two mile crater when he finally hit the ground
The formal report said that all that they found
Was a skull in the burnt-up body of a bug