The narrator of the song recounts driving at a high speed in circles around a hotel garage, cautiously checking for danger, yet still inevitably crashing, while a girl named Jasmine looks on.
The song refers to a real-life incident in Bowie's life that occurred at the height of his cocaine addiction.
[1] However, given Bob Dylan's infamous motorcycling accident years earlier and the song's subject matter, the band considered such a move to be crass, and Bowie asked for Tony Visconti to delete the verse from the recording.
[1] The song features the use of synthesizers and treatments to bring Bowie's largely calm vocals over the sound of the band.
Bowie and Reeves Gabrels performed an all-acoustic version of the song for the radio station WRXT on 16 October 1997, while doing press stops for the Earthling Tour.