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Drive-In Saturday Lyrics
Let me put my arms around your head
Gee, it's hot, let's go to bed
Don't forget to turn on the light
Don't laugh babe, it'll be alright
Pour me out another phone
I'll ring and see if your friends are home
Perhaps the strange ones in the dome
Can lend us a book we can read up alone
And try to get it on like once before
When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored
Like the video films we saw
His name was always Buddy
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid
And turn her face away
She's uncertain if she likes him
But she knows she really loves him
It's a crash course for the ravers
It's a Drive-in Saturday
Jung the foreman prayed at work
That neither hands nor limbs would burst
It's hard enough to keep formation with this fall out saturation
Cursing at the Astronette
Who stands in steel by his cabinet
He's crashing out with Sylvian
The Bureau Supply for ageing men
With snorting head he gazes to the shore
Which once had raised a sea that raged no more
Like the video films we saw
His name was always Buddy
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid
And turn her face away
She's uncertain if she likes him
But she knows she really loves him
It's a crash course for the ravers
It's a Drive-in Saturday
Gee, it's hot, let's go to bed
Don't forget to turn on the light
Don't laugh babe, it'll be alright
Pour me out another phone
I'll ring and see if your friends are home
Perhaps the strange ones in the dome
Can lend us a book we can read up alone
And try to get it on like once before
When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored
Like the video films we saw
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid
And turn her face away
She's uncertain if she likes him
But she knows she really loves him
It's a crash course for the ravers
It's a Drive-in Saturday
That neither hands nor limbs would burst
It's hard enough to keep formation with this fall out saturation
Cursing at the Astronette
Who stands in steel by his cabinet
He's crashing out with Sylvian
The Bureau Supply for ageing men
With snorting head he gazes to the shore
Which once had raised a sea that raged no more
Like the video films we saw
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid
And turn her face away
She's uncertain if she likes him
But she knows she really loves him
It's a crash course for the ravers
It's a Drive-in Saturday
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Submitted by
typo On Jan 02, 2002
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Bowie wrote Drive in Saturday on a train somewhere between Seattle and Phoenix whilst touring in the U.S. He was scared of flying at this time so always took trains and ships. Bowie reportedly looked out at a bleak landscape in the moonlight and saw enormous silver domes which inspired him to write. He saw a world after a nuclear catastrophe where the radiation had affected people’s minds and they had to learn to make love again by watching it in films. Bowie's abstract song writing at it's best.
Seriously doubt that it gets any better than this form a songwriting POV, the song is perfect!. Someone once said david had the best voice of ANY white singer ever. I tend to agree.
Absolutely!
Absolutely!
@Tricky1979 Agree!!
@Tricky1979 Agree!!
I love the 50's feel this song gives off
@lilpopcorngurl
@lilpopcorngurl
Agreed - a totally 50s feel ... as molded by Salvadore Dali
Agreed - a totally 50s feel ... as molded by Salvadore Dali
I've read that this song is about rediscovering how to have sex after some kind of nuclear war destroyed most of mankind.
The first verse makes me think the song is about how the boyfriend would sort of force the girl into intercourse over at the drive-in and how she would be curious but not really enjoy. But then the second verse takes it someplace else entirely. I don't know what he's talking about. I don't pretend to understand what goes through Bowie's head. Great song though!
there are backing vocals going into the opening lyrics like "DOOT . . DOOT .. " and I've heard it's actually
"DUDE . .DUDE . .
"let me put my arms around your head" (think about that for a second)
@three575 WTF are you talking about
@three575 WTF are you talking about
This is about an apocalyptic situation where everyone has forgotten how to...well...have sex. So, to salvage themselves, They watch old films where it happened and that's how they regained their knowledge. I love this song, because not only is it good for slow dancing, but this reminds me of a 50s 'doo-wop' song.
Heavily influenced by 1950s doo-wop, "Drive-In Saturday" describes how the inhabitants of a post-apocalyptic world have forgotten how to reproduce, and need to watch old porn films to see how it's done. The narrative has been cited as an example of Bowie's "futuristic nostalgia", where the story is told from the perspective of an inhabitant of the future looking back in time.
That's from wikipedia and mostly makes sense to me. I don't really see this song as having that much of a DMT influence. Also to liplex, you smoke/vaporize, not drink, DMT.
@Sweetlips this song would make for such an awesome novel
@Sweetlips this song would make for such an awesome novel
"She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiggy
What does the Jung reference mean? Does anyone get it?
I mean, I get who it's about, but not why.
@garedelyon in Thomas Pynchon's novel "V." a character is referred to by others and by himself as "Bung the foreman". Bowie is perhaps referencing this.
@garedelyon in Thomas Pynchon's novel "V." a character is referred to by others and by himself as "Bung the foreman". Bowie is perhaps referencing this.