Cars and Girls Lyrics
Ba ba ba, sha-do-da-do-dun
Ba ba ba, sha-do-da-do-dun
Ba ba ba, sha-do-da-do-dun-da
[Verse 1]
Brucie dreams life's a highway
Too many roads bypass my way
Or they never begin
Innocence comin' to grief
At the hands of life's stinkin' car thief
That's my concept of sin
[Pre-Chorus]
Does heaven wait all heavenly
Over the next horizon? Ah!
[Chorus 1]
But look at us now (quit driving)
Some things hurt more, much more than cars and girls
Just look at us now (start counting)
What adds up the way it did when we were young?
Just look at us now (quit driving)
Some things hurt more, much more than cars and girls
Uh-wooh!
Life's a drive through a dust bowl
What's it do, do to a young soul?
We are deeply concerned
Someone stops for directions
Something responds deep in our engines
We have all been burned
[Pre-Chorus]
Will heaven wait all heavenly
Over the next horizon? Ah!
[Chorus 2]
But look at us now (quit driving)
Some things hurt more, much more than cars and girls
Just look at us now (start counting)
What adds up the way it did when we were young?
Just look at us now (quit driving)
Some things hurt more, much more than cars and girls
Uh-wooh! Ah!
[Hook]
Ba ba ba, sha-do-da-do-dun
Ba ba ba, sha-do-da-do-dun
Ba ba ba, sha-do-da-do-dun-da
Little boy got a hot rod
Thinks it makes him some kind of new god
Well this is one race he won't win
(Life's no cruise)
'Cause life's no cruise with a cool chick
Too many folks feelin' car sick, but it never pulls in
Brucie's thoughts, pretty streamers
Guess this world needs its dreamers
May they never wake up, alright
[Chorus 3]
But look at us now (quit driving)
Some things hurt more, much more than cars and girls
Just look at us now (start counting)
What adds up the way it did when we were young?
Just look at us now (quit driving)
Some things hurt more, much more than cars and girls
Just look at us now (quit driving)
Some things hurt more, much more than cars and girls
Look at us now (start counting)
What adds up the way it did when we were young?
Look at us now (quit driving)
Some things hurt more, much more than cars and girls
[Hook]
Sha-do-da-do-dun
Ba ba ba, sha-do-da-do-dun
Ba ba ba, sha-do-da-do-dun
Ba ba ba, sha-do-da-do-dun-da
About
Lyrically, “Cars and Girls” is a comment on Bruce Springsteen’s use of romantic metaphors in his songs. McAloon felt Springsteen utilised “a poetry that an Englishman can’t understand”. The song is often seen as indicating a personal distaste for Springsteen, but McAloon elaborated on the lyrics in a 1992 interview; “The point of the parody is this: not that I think Bruce Springsteen is crap, it’s that I think a lot of his audience get into him on a patriotic level that he doesn’t intend. They misinterpret him, their enjoyment of him is inaccurate, all very imperialist American. I wanted to write a song about someone who was thick white trash, listening to Springsteen, and saying ‘But our lives aren’t like that’”
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