This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Well I’m fucked, it’s half 2, I’ve gotta get home
How we gonna get out of here man, What we gonna do
Let’s call a Taxi
You know I’ve had some of the best times of my life in a taxi cab
I’ve had some good times in Star, I’ve had some good times in Town taxis
But most of all I’ve had the best times in Dragon Cars
Shirt and tie you knows it
I remember it well, first time it was swell
A lift in a taxi that didn’t fuckin smell
The driver was safe, he ‘ad a mobile phone
And he did a side wheelie when he dropped me off home
Handbrakes turns over the grass
Made my next door neighbour feel shit from her arse
They’re too fuckin wicked, they always get me home
D-R-A to the G-O-N, you’re in the fuckin zone
Some had cushions, others had ashtrays,
All in all those rides were the best days
Stopping at the spar or the 24 hour Safeway….
I ‘ave to say it was a good day
I got in his taxi and I felt the vibe
So I asked was it busy tonight drive
He looked at me and saw the bloodshot eyes
So he passed me the splif and said enjoy the ride
Some cars is red, some cars is blue
My first dragon taxi ride was back in ‘82
It was fuckin great, I had four quid
And he took me back home and gave me 50p for the lid
Off the glue that I’d be sniffing
In the back of a park with my mate who was tripping
GLC crew’s the only way to travel
We do it in style just like Jimmy Saville
Some times at night when I’m all alone
I crawl out of bed and pick up the phone
Just to hear the dragon switchboard, asking what I want
Cause it makes me feel safe asking for a drop off in Pont
One phone call was only the start of it
One phone call and now you’re a part of it
Now you’ve done it, Dragon’s fixed it for you, and you and you (and you)
Stuck in traffic travelling through Pill
I look at people they make me fuckin ill
Safe inside my lovely Dragon taxi
On the way home to watch a good sexy
My taxi driver that was in the know
He Said he’d pick me up if I gave him some blow
First of all he said he knew my brother
But then I found out it he was undercover
The police they took me down Main D
But they had to let me go coz I’m in the GLC
Joe le Taxi, Cest sa vie
That’s the way we doos it in the GLC
Some drivers have a laugh, some drivers don’t talk much
Some of them are Asian and some of them are Dutch
To get me safely home, don’t cost that much
And the heated leather seats are a luxury touch
There were five of us, but I couldn’t see the fuss
Coz Dragons got a seven seater scum bus
With Banging tunes and leather seats
I pass the driver CD with the GLC beats
That’ll be a fiver coz I’m your taxi provider
Feeling like De Niro in fucking taxi driver
With Jodie Foster and Harvey Kietel,
I just done a drop off in fuckin Bayswell
When the taxi stops and we started to run
The Taxi driver pulls out a fuckin big gun
So I hits the floor till he’s emptied his clip
And we had to have a wip round to err, get him a tip..alright
One phone call was only the start of it
One phone call and now you’re a part of it
Now you’ve done it, Dragon’s fixed it for you, and you and you (and you)
Joe le Taxi, Cest sa vie
That’s the way we doos it in the GLC
Joe le Taxi, Cest sa vie
That’s the way we doos it in the GLC
I said
I see’s it all from this taxi cab man
I see people having a laugh, I sees people beating on each other
I see’s err late night shops with customers coming in and going out
I see’s quite a lot really.
It’s quite similar to the film taxi driver in a sense that er I feel I am cleaning the streets innit. You knows it.
Ere you are drive, put some vols on that Claart. Knows it.
How we gonna get out of here man, What we gonna do
Let’s call a Taxi
You know I’ve had some of the best times of my life in a taxi cab
I’ve had some good times in Star, I’ve had some good times in Town taxis
But most of all I’ve had the best times in Dragon Cars
Shirt and tie you knows it
I remember it well, first time it was swell
A lift in a taxi that didn’t fuckin smell
The driver was safe, he ‘ad a mobile phone
And he did a side wheelie when he dropped me off home
Handbrakes turns over the grass
Made my next door neighbour feel shit from her arse
They’re too fuckin wicked, they always get me home
D-R-A to the G-O-N, you’re in the fuckin zone
Some had cushions, others had ashtrays,
All in all those rides were the best days
Stopping at the spar or the 24 hour Safeway….
I ‘ave to say it was a good day
I got in his taxi and I felt the vibe
So I asked was it busy tonight drive
He looked at me and saw the bloodshot eyes
So he passed me the splif and said enjoy the ride
Some cars is red, some cars is blue
My first dragon taxi ride was back in ‘82
It was fuckin great, I had four quid
And he took me back home and gave me 50p for the lid
Off the glue that I’d be sniffing
In the back of a park with my mate who was tripping
GLC crew’s the only way to travel
We do it in style just like Jimmy Saville
Some times at night when I’m all alone
I crawl out of bed and pick up the phone
Just to hear the dragon switchboard, asking what I want
Cause it makes me feel safe asking for a drop off in Pont
One phone call was only the start of it
One phone call and now you’re a part of it
Now you’ve done it, Dragon’s fixed it for you, and you and you (and you)
Stuck in traffic travelling through Pill
I look at people they make me fuckin ill
Safe inside my lovely Dragon taxi
On the way home to watch a good sexy
My taxi driver that was in the know
He Said he’d pick me up if I gave him some blow
First of all he said he knew my brother
But then I found out it he was undercover
The police they took me down Main D
But they had to let me go coz I’m in the GLC
Joe le Taxi, Cest sa vie
That’s the way we doos it in the GLC
Some drivers have a laugh, some drivers don’t talk much
Some of them are Asian and some of them are Dutch
To get me safely home, don’t cost that much
And the heated leather seats are a luxury touch
There were five of us, but I couldn’t see the fuss
Coz Dragons got a seven seater scum bus
With Banging tunes and leather seats
I pass the driver CD with the GLC beats
That’ll be a fiver coz I’m your taxi provider
Feeling like De Niro in fucking taxi driver
With Jodie Foster and Harvey Kietel,
I just done a drop off in fuckin Bayswell
When the taxi stops and we started to run
The Taxi driver pulls out a fuckin big gun
So I hits the floor till he’s emptied his clip
And we had to have a wip round to err, get him a tip..alright
One phone call was only the start of it
One phone call and now you’re a part of it
Now you’ve done it, Dragon’s fixed it for you, and you and you (and you)
Joe le Taxi, Cest sa vie
That’s the way we doos it in the GLC
Joe le Taxi, Cest sa vie
That’s the way we doos it in the GLC
I said
I see’s it all from this taxi cab man
I see people having a laugh, I sees people beating on each other
I see’s err late night shops with customers coming in and going out
I see’s quite a lot really.
It’s quite similar to the film taxi driver in a sense that er I feel I am cleaning the streets innit. You knows it.
Ere you are drive, put some vols on that Claart. Knows it.
Lyrics submitted by GAZFARR
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