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Mr. Cab Driver Lyrics
Mr Cab Driver won’t you stop to let me in
Mr Cab Driver don’t like my kind of skin
Mr Cab Driver you’re never gonna win
Mr Cab Driver won’t you stop to pick me up
Mr Cab Driver I might need some help
Mr Cab Driver only thinks about himself
Here we go
Mr Cab Driver, Mr Cab Driver
Mr Cab Driver, Mr Cab Driver
Mr Cab Driver don’t like the way I look
He don’t like dreads he thinks we’re all crooks
Mr Cab Driver reads too many story books
Mr Cab Driver pass me up with eyes of fire
Mr Cab Driver thinks we’re all one sixty five’ers
Mr Cab Driver fuck you I’m a survivor
Oh yeah, one more time, ahah
Let me in
Mr Cab Driver, Mr Cab Driver
Mr Cab Driver, Mr Cab Driver
Mr Cab Driver don’t like my kind of skin
Mr Cab Driver you’re never gonna win
Mr Cab Driver won’t you stop to pick me up
Mr Cab Driver I might need some help
Mr Cab Driver only thinks about himself
Here we go
Mr Cab Driver, Mr Cab Driver
He don’t like dreads he thinks we’re all crooks
Mr Cab Driver reads too many story books
Mr Cab Driver pass me up with eyes of fire
Mr Cab Driver thinks we’re all one sixty five’ers
Mr Cab Driver fuck you I’m a survivor
Oh yeah, one more time, ahah
Mr Cab Driver, Mr Cab Driver
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Well this is definatly a song about prejudice, I would think. "Mr. Cabdriver don't like the color of my skin" and "He don't like dreads, he thinks we're all just crooks" seem to prove that, unless there's another meaning I'm not seeing! I'm not sure why he uses the cabdriver in the song. Maybe it's from a personal experience or maybe it's making refernece to New York, who's cabdrivers are well known, and the city has many different types of people living there. Or maybe that's just he threw in!
Lenny Kravitz expresses the frustration of being mistreated simply because of the way he looks. I'm not a big fan of profanity in songs, but I think the F bomb is used very effectively here.
I find this song kind of...confusing. However it is not because I don't understand what the song is trying to say, I just can't figure out whether the writer is being smart and ironic or they're just a hypocrite. I mean it is a guy who got ignored by a cab driver and because of this he states that it was because the cab driver was prejudice and just hates him because of how he looks. However if he got ignored by the driver, that means he had never even talked to the driver, in fact he knows just as much about the cab driver as the cab driver knows about him. He doesn't know why the cab driver didn't pick him up, he just assumes that it is because the cab driver is racist. But he does not know this, for all he knows the cab driver didn't pick him up because him wife was in an accident and he's rushing to the hospital. He doesn't know anything, thus he is also prejudging the cab driver as well, in assuming that he is just a horrible person because he didn't pick him up. So this song confuses me because I can't tell whether it's showing people how stupid being prejudice is (by assuming outrageous things about a cab driver who he does not know) or it is just an angry guy assuming another man is prejudice without actually realising that that's exactly the same thing that he himself is doing.
So when he wrote this song he was trying to hail a cab to get to the studio ,after being passed by many cabs he finally got one. When he told the driver where he was going driver threw him out they got into a actual fist fight, since he couldnt get to studio he went back to room wrote song and cut it the next day.