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Oh Yeah Lyrics
Some expression in your eyes
Overtook me by surprise
Where was I? How was I to know?
How can we drive to a movie show
When the music is here in my car?
There’s a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
They’re playing Oh Yeah on the radio.
And so it came to be our song
And so on through all summer long
Day and night drifting into love
Driving you home from a movie show
So in tune to the sounds in my car
There’s a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
They’re playing Oh Yeah on the radio.
It’s some time since we said goodbye
And now we lead our separate lives
But where am I, where can I go?
Driving alone to a movie show
So I turn to the sounds in my car
There’s a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
There’s a band playing on the radio
And it’s drowning the sound of my tears
They’re playing Oh Yeah on the radio.
Overtook me by surprise
Where was I? How was I to know?
How can we drive to a movie show
When the music is here in my car?
There’s a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
They’re playing Oh Yeah on the radio.
And so on through all summer long
Day and night drifting into love
Driving you home from a movie show
So in tune to the sounds in my car
There’s a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
They’re playing Oh Yeah on the radio.
And now we lead our separate lives
But where am I, where can I go?
Driving alone to a movie show
So I turn to the sounds in my car
There’s a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
There’s a band playing on the radio
And it’s drowning the sound of my tears
They’re playing Oh Yeah on the radio.
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Lost love. Great song! Listen as often as needed to get rid of that demon and move on.
Oh Yeah tells the story of a summer love soundtracked by a song that the couple hear every now and then on the radio, so that it becomes their song.
It starts a bit clunky with the line “some expression in your eyes overtook me by surprise”. I mean, how else can you be overtaken if not by surprise? But anyway. It sets the scene: these two are in the car, listening to the radio on their way to the drive-in cinema, when they become a thing.
The snapshots we get from their relationship are the ones that take place when the song is playing. When they first fall in love, during their honeymoon summer days and, finally, after the break-up.
The narrator finds himself again on the way to the cinema when the radio plays their song and he has a little moment. “There’s a band playing on the radio and it’s drowning the sound of my tears”. Jesus. The song in question is called (surprise, surprise) Oh Yeah.
It’s another meta lyric! The song they’re playing on the radio in the words is the song the words are a part of. Furthermore, Oh Yeah was released as a single in mid-July of 1980 and it must have gotten fairly decent airplay since it got to #5. It could have, very much so, come alive and been the soundtrack for a real-life summer thryst. Isn’t that kind of amazing? It may be a bit gimmicky, but I like gimmicky.