Stan Ridgway - Drive, She Said

Stan Ridgway - Drive, She Said - 1986 + Lyrics

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" DRIVE, SHE SAID "
Sittin right behind me
I could smell her perfume
It was somethin I'd smelled before
Went through a red light
While I spilled my drink
I could feel somethin sticky on the floor
I said miss, you've gotta tell me
Where you wanna go to
I cant keep drivin round the same block
So I crumpled my cup
And pulled the gum off my shoe
And then she told me just shut up
And keep your eyes on the road
Chorus:
And just drive, she said
Just drive, she said
Just drive, she said
Well, I watched her put her hands
On the bag in her lap
While I scratched the bald spot on my head
I knew then that my cab was just
A getaway car
But I shut up and drove, like she said
I took a bite of my doughnut
And I offered her one
And I said lady, are you in a fix?
Then she reached in her purse
And she pulled out a gun, and said
Now just shut up, and keep your hands on the wheel
Chorus repeat (okay, okay!)
Spoken
Then the moon disappeared, and it started to rain,
So I put the wipers on full.
And on the bag in her lap I saw the name of a big bank downtown.
And I said, you dont have to worry about me, nope!
When I turned the headlights onccjust for a minutecc
I thought I saw the both of us on some kinda tropical island someplace.
Walkin down a white sandy beach.
Eatin somethin...
Chorus repeat
We pulled outta traffic
Down a dark side street
She was fixin her hair in the mirror
I made a left turn
At a yellow light
Drove my cab fast towards the pier
She boarded the boat
And turned and blew me a kiss
And later on, when the squad car came round
I ate a handful of peanuts
And I told em this
I dont rememeber much, except just keep your hands on the wheel
Chorus repeat until fade
Spoken:
Hey, hey, uhcc
Hey, yall, get outta my way!ccall ya sunday drivers!
Hey, you want one of these, ah, slim jims? theyre good!
What? ccwhat? you dontccyou dont want one?
Well theyre 100% meat!
Havent I seen you somewhere before?
I know, I know, anchorage, thats where I seen ya, anchorage
Well, where you goin'?
I'm sorry, I don't go in that part of town anymore.
I don't need my windows washed.

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@lizzy11291950 12 жыл бұрын

Stan Ridgeway is far too underated. He's a fine musician with so many fantastic stories to tell.

@emilewicz14 3 жыл бұрын

Almost like Andy Prieboy.

@JamieSwitzer 3 жыл бұрын

@@emilewicz14 yup, both him and Andy are great.

@gogoyubari366 2 жыл бұрын

What makes you believe he's underrated?

@fuzzgunn4309 2 жыл бұрын

Stan and wall of voodoo are both criminally underrated. People need to recognize.

@HermanWaldorf Жыл бұрын

he's a giant

@RohanGillett Жыл бұрын

My neighbor loves Drive, She Said so much. Every time I play he puts a brick through my window to hear it better!

@robertszymanski717 3 жыл бұрын

I heard this song on a Los Angeles radio station called KROQ -FM back in the 1980's. KROQ played Newwave and Punk Rock !!!! Those were the good old days for me!

@ShaggyDawg 11 ай бұрын

Rodney on the Roq

@madammaui 3 ай бұрын

The station of my youth. Still exists but it’s not the magic like then😢

@treeguyfly 2 ай бұрын

I first heard this song a year ago on a transgender and 9/11 conspiracy theory discord server. Communications technology may change but bangers tunes are forever.

@jimbailey5681 4 жыл бұрын

Stan Ridgway puts a movie into a 4 minute song. Genius

@NormAppleton Ай бұрын

Or a book you could read at the Laundromat

@daphnetruman 2 жыл бұрын

Stan's voice just screams "Rock 'n Roll" He's the real deal.

@RaymondMcAteer 8 жыл бұрын

Stan is an unconventional talent. He has a style that's all his own and frankly, that's why I always admired him.

@NormAppleton 3 жыл бұрын

That's always what made the Barstow mofo awesome.

@chucklubchenko4661 Жыл бұрын

Real talent is not conventional.

@paulkitt2376 Ай бұрын

Stan's best song

@NormAppleton Ай бұрын

Yes

@davidjenkins2691 4 жыл бұрын

Either you get Stan or you don't. And that seems to be the way he likes it.

@doorran 12 жыл бұрын

I like the way the harmonika mimics a cab horn in traffic. I've always loved Stan Ridgway for his great stories.

@keith4886 Жыл бұрын

Bought his music back in the 80s when I was in New Zealand. Played the hell out of it. Stan was so different. His songs took on different aspects, different & unique sounds & a whole different approach to songwriting. No one was doing stuff like this. Except Stan Ridgway!

@frankkumon Жыл бұрын

To this day, no one is writing songs like Stan.

@SaintVodou 3 жыл бұрын

Not only is the song great, the video is perfect too. The whole album has a black-and-white film noir feel to it; every track tells its own small story. The lyrics are not only comprehensible but deft-not a quality I’ve stumbled across very often in this or any other genre...

@MondoJohnny 7 жыл бұрын

He's still around! I've been to a few shows and they are always a blast! Usually some really small venue! Lots of jokes and stories and stuff. He's a real character, and really is good to fans! After playing a full show with encores, he sticks around for several more hours just meeting fans, signing things, taking pictures before even getting dinner! If you live around LA you should see when his next show is. Worth it!

@philanthropic8416 5 жыл бұрын

please ask him to come to Australia!!

@eclecticwaves 5 жыл бұрын

A true legend, saw him in London and he met and chatted with fans after his performance. Happy to pose for photos and sign autographs

@agentjake13 4 жыл бұрын

@Abe Garfield source? I can't find anything that says he is dead.

@purpssss4 4 жыл бұрын

@@philanthropic8416 Would love him to come back to Australia. He toured in 1986 and again in 2013, when I was lucky enough to see him at The Corner in Richmond. I wanted to stay back and meet him, but alas my Husband was rather crook, and as we had come down from the country, hit the road, as it was already after midnight. Mentioned it in a post, and Stan personally replied, saying he was sorry to read and that next time, Hoped to meet me, i was blown away! :)

@jimbailey5681 4 жыл бұрын

Stan Ridgway is still alive

@milancoric8787 5 жыл бұрын

I love Stan Ridgeway, one of the most underrated musicians of all time

@Freedom1man Жыл бұрын

I just learned about him thanks to Sabaton doing a cover

@JimPhilips 11 жыл бұрын

Saw him live about 1989. He tore the house down with this song.

@stevelowe2200 10 жыл бұрын

wrote a creative essay which ripped this song off in 1986 when I was 16. Got an A+; thanks Stan (still love the song)!

@NormAppleton Ай бұрын

Good for you

@NormAppleton Ай бұрын

I mean that

@ovvashi Жыл бұрын

Stan’s basically an incredible short story writer

@NormAppleton 8 ай бұрын

Yep

@ojtveito 11 жыл бұрын

Amazing song, inspired by a true story of his days as a cab-driver.

@tikighoul 5 ай бұрын

OMG! I LOVE YOU STAN!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@francispdelia 9 жыл бұрын

what a great musician with a unique voice... legendary

@spiralsone 6 ай бұрын

It would have been a stomper of a track for the musical arrangement alone, but the storyline, the common man cabbie narrator is makes it a stone cold classic and utterly original, like so much of Ridgway's work.

@cynthiachamberlin7357 Жыл бұрын

No ads!

@destination-nn1zq 4 жыл бұрын

I came from that geration in high school listening to wall of voodoo and other left of field music at that time....... Lately ive been on a nosyalgic journey digging up the bands from my school years that weren't mainstream like your bon jovi's of the day because these are the music i truely miss and when i find this alternative music of the time it takes me right back to that time and gives me a great sense of nostalgia and pure joy man i wish the time machine could hurry up and get invented ill be on the first plane❤

@empiremonkey 3 жыл бұрын

I'm also turning to my favorites from my formative years...

@irshgrl500 12 жыл бұрын

Stan, simply, an incredibly weird genius! My kind of guy!

@mosriteminioncause7741 2 жыл бұрын

Stan Ridgeway.....The Original New Wave West Pioneer!!!

@briandamage2164 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve been looking for this song for years, no one could help me, many many searches of snatches of lyrics remembered were to no avail, my search has ended here, thanking you

@SaintVodou 3 жыл бұрын

Brian Damage: I know the feeling. Finding music here is like visiting my preschool self and separating memories from make-believe...

@rahsaanthomas7030 2 жыл бұрын

All you had to do was remember the 4 words.. "Just drive, she said."

@jenniferstringham1277 4 жыл бұрын

Love this dude's music SO MUCH

@trypnaut4777 2 жыл бұрын

The Big Heat change my life and my musical position. Thanks Stan!!!

@NormAppleton Ай бұрын

THERE'S SOMEONE FOLLOWING YOO

@alanburge2725 Жыл бұрын

The big heat is a classic. One of the great 80s albums. Love this man. Solo or with WOV. Classy.

@Duraan84 13 жыл бұрын

This is a great tune! It paints a great scenario.

@jtoe111 2 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine how many 90's bands got influenced by a song like this. That's literally all I can hear.

@JoseOrtega-mp7kd 2 жыл бұрын

young days

@davevrox3023 5 ай бұрын

2024. ❤

@davidcochrane2739 4 жыл бұрын

God what a storyteller!

@KimonSheri Жыл бұрын

Life lessons Keep your eyes on the road. Your hands upon the wheel. L. A. Woman

@annstevenson813 Ай бұрын

Umm..Roadhouse Blues methinks

@bkoumout 8 жыл бұрын

Great song brings me back to the 80"s.

@kiwiduncan Жыл бұрын

You don't have to worry about me, nope!

@omenapp 3 жыл бұрын

Such a great song.

@kevintheiss819 11 жыл бұрын

I saw these guys at Rockefellers in Houston circa 1989 AWESOME

@thrillkillkitten 11 жыл бұрын

these guys played at my work tonight, as soon as this song started i was flooded with childhood memories... so great!

@juliehealingleaf6211 9 жыл бұрын

great guitars miss dancing to this stuff in clubs..

@seanharkinl3555 Жыл бұрын

i remember first hearing this on 97.7 chom in montreak

@iesus68 5 жыл бұрын

this guitar intro is just one of the best ever done in music history..

@bayrockwhk 10 жыл бұрын

a great song! heard it when it first came out and have never forgotten it thanks for posting this....

@malfark 13 жыл бұрын

Fantastic - great memories from the mid-80's :-)

@DarrylBurton-ge5ei 4 ай бұрын

Cool song for me long time ago.

@telebruel 2 жыл бұрын

i couldn’t remember this guys name and often thought of this track and someone just posted this and made my day. Clever - definitely underrated

@tomsimpson5317 Жыл бұрын

I miss those days

@paulsnell534 5 жыл бұрын

I guess he still writes and performs and never publishes on you tube....he should. I think he don't realise how appreciated he is

@productofthe80s 6 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite videos to watch on a Friday Night

@mattclassic1855 9 ай бұрын

Right!! This video looks like a Friday night in a big city!

@productofthe80s 9 ай бұрын

@@mattclassic1855 Exactly! You get where I'm coming from

@klistarf 12 жыл бұрын

Not too many bands/artistes that sound quite like Stan Ridgway. I simply adore his approach to music! The guy is a legend. Almost unique. I love it... \m/ (:o)

@Lucky_Number113 12 жыл бұрын

That's his wife, Pietra Wexstun. It's true! He said so himself on the Stan Ridgway's Grand Emporium on Facebook :-)

@NormAppleton 3 жыл бұрын

Brave man to marry a woman named that

@buddhabeast3508 Жыл бұрын

He inspired many musicians Stan is Da Man. Love his western themes

@giorgio.baldi1966 5 жыл бұрын

awesome!

@rickdeckard9077 10 жыл бұрын

This is so great!! I caught Stan and the band at Greasy Tony's outside of Phoenix in about 1990-91 and it was fantastic!! Stan is such an excellent songwriter, showman and storyteller. Extremely underrated!! What have we got now? Some Katy Perry/ Lady Gaga/ Miley Cyrus bullshit being crammed down our throats from every possible angle. Pathetic. Keep carrying the torch, Stan!!

@7121geo 5 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks for uploading!! Covered and sang this song in the eighties, one of my favorites, Stan is the man....

@jeffwilcox5123 2 жыл бұрын

Genius !

@9sunskungfu 11 жыл бұрын

Its funny how you can remember a sound you'd forgotten,they(radio) used to play the shit out of this song here in australia when it was released(86 or 87 i think),soon as i heard this song,i was like,"oh shit i cant beleive i remember this" i was 11 yrs old xD

@eldorado62 9 жыл бұрын

Darn, this guy was good.

@akishot6735 7 жыл бұрын

eldorado62 *is

@Brewzerr 5 жыл бұрын

Still is. Check out his latest project - Drywall.

@purpssss4 4 жыл бұрын

@Abe Garfield Not sure where you got this information, but he is alive and well and still releasing songs. :)

@rojostu1 4 жыл бұрын

@Abe Garfield no he didnt

@davesr25 14 жыл бұрын

this song is amzing ty for posting it :D

@vernonbrown5568 6 жыл бұрын

Sound so good .. Good tune

@steveaitch729 11 ай бұрын

discovered this song on the spud goodman show in Seattle.

@jahminski831michaelvienola2 3 жыл бұрын

Stan rules!!!

@dad4justice 8 жыл бұрын

Cool stuff Stan

@philanthropic8416 5 жыл бұрын

I was driving taxis when this came out -this song is forever stained in my brain- turned me onto the great man - if your not familiar with TWISTED from the big heat album- check it out!

@cathystruska1558 3 жыл бұрын

This is Art. Stewart Copland turned me on.Stan is a hard boiled writer, musician and film buff, all noir and shadow, like rain beading a windshield to singular headlights passing in a hiss, ...TJ STRUSKA

@treaps 8 жыл бұрын

As others said before, Nash Metropolitan. Hard to imagine a fare riding in the back of one of these!

@isaiahash9697 6 жыл бұрын

another good song!

@RobDog65 12 жыл бұрын

@FriedAudio Yeah, that's a Nash Metropolitan--a 50's joint-venture product from Nash (US) and Austin-Healey (UK).

@devonnejohnson5120 3 жыл бұрын

Love the car

@hopesnopes 11 жыл бұрын

god, he just tore MY house down with this song- friend just turned me onto it-guess i missed it cuz I was havin kids in 86 & 88. LOVE THIS!!

@40momba 12 жыл бұрын

One of the cool things about this Stan's wife is the lady !

@PREPFORIT 4 жыл бұрын

awesome

@jamesbelljr 10 жыл бұрын

Ft. Cambell,KY.1986 this album was slept on.....shame

@richardherbst8081 4 жыл бұрын

Must have been a rough night! Thanks for your service.

@AcucarFM3 7 жыл бұрын

I totally digg this, I bought a pressing of this and Big Heat A & B side

@chanewinthrop1089 4 жыл бұрын

Always call Stanard Cab.

@thenavajoknow 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite off The Big Heat, it carried on the noir flavor of many Wall of Voodoo tracks, despite the slicker production. Not too keen on most the album, I found Seven Days in Sammystown by the remainig Voodoos a better effort - darker, with a twisted sense of humor and that great "Country & Gothic Dada" style. WoV really did write the ultimate soundtrack to the American Nightmare and Stanard's and the boys' lyrics and songs should be taught in American Studies classes.

@davidjohnsmith2001 5 жыл бұрын

1986 , Kensington and lots of sustagen gold .

@troysierra5228 7 жыл бұрын

Miss So Cal. Everything was happening there in the 80's!

@johnfletcher7648 2 жыл бұрын

It all us..working as a man..and we do what we do..we just drive..

@chrisjohnson3101 10 ай бұрын

I love the story I've known a couple of cab drivers one was from Germany he used to have nightmares that his cab was driving in reverse at a hundred miles an hour and he couldn't get it to stop , the other cab driver I knew was from Nigeria and he said that he drove through a couple of houses but never hurt anybody when he was smoking the weed and drinking the liquor cuz in Nigeria they drive all over the place you got to check out the motorcycle taxi drivers o'l you're in for a treat my friend !

@PeterMayer 4 жыл бұрын

I haven't heard this in years

@timewarped2the80s 8 жыл бұрын

This guy was like Dylan but in the 80's... Now just shut up and keep your hands on the wheel

@thebrazilianatlantis165 8 жыл бұрын

+timewarped2the80s I was at his first solo show in '86, and he jokingly compared himself to Dylan during it.

@CJEstradaMartinez 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent comparison.

@edlawn5481 3 жыл бұрын

More like an 80s Harry Chapin.

@RobDog65 12 жыл бұрын

@budgienation The car's essentially a two-seater. I've seen them at car shows and there is a VERY tight bench seat behind the two fronts. There's no way anything larger than an infant or a small dog could possibly ride back there, and you'd have to be out of your mind to try to cram an infant car seat into that compartment.

@jfisher2370 4 жыл бұрын

I don't need the video - Stan is such as great storyteller I have my own version of the video playing in my head.

@budgienation 12 жыл бұрын

Man, if I could find a Nash Metropolitan like that one, I'd hunt up some greasy kid stuff, take up smokin' unfiltered Luckies again, get an old Taxi meter..... Hey, you talkin' to me? YOU TALKIN' TO ME???!!! One of these days, I'm gonna get myself organazised....

@SAHBfan 6 жыл бұрын

I watched a porn movie in the very early 80s, it was on VHS video - the girls had pubic hair and everything. I thought the sound track was really great and I tried to found out who it was. Not easy in the days before you could google it. Found out in the end, turned out it was 'Wall of Voodoo" Stan Ridgeway started out doing soundtracks - I bought the vinyl LP 'GrandMa's house. I still have it...

@ronaldgarrison8478 5 ай бұрын

2:57 Cab seems to be outfitted like a recording studio. Of course it would be.

@budgienation 12 жыл бұрын

Great song, great vid. Stan's the man. Funny thing: the carb looks like a Nash Metropolitan and as far as I know, it was a two seater. Every one I've ever seen, that is. Anyone know if Nash (later to be come "Rambler" and "American Motors out of Kenosha, WI) ever made a four seater Metropolitan? Seriously, I'd like to know.

@terrythekittieful 3 жыл бұрын

Midnight Oil must have been influenced by this song. The opening is quite similar to their 'Blue Sky Mine' from around 1990.

@sootikins 7 жыл бұрын

Hollywood Palladium - 1992 - big benefit show for somebody - 10 bands or so. I went mainly because Concrete Blonde was headlining. Stan was one of the supporting acts. I'd never seen him live before. Left that show far more impressed with Stan's performance than Concrete Blonde's. (Nothing against C.B. - they were having an off night - happens to the best occasionally - their Coach House shows in 89 - 91 were awesome!)

@77PacerStudios 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome song! If I could mod the soundtrack of my racing games (Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport/Horizon, Need for Speed), this is one of many countless songs that I would add into the race bgm! Really awesome song to drive fast to!

@nic-ci_66-77 3 жыл бұрын

ALTERA HISTORIA DU ROCK

@astridhardt 3 жыл бұрын

❤

@goonsquad8258 2 жыл бұрын

Stan doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Absolutely iconic and completely unique. I definitely wasn't alive for the eighties (or even the nineties), but his music evokes a certain nostalgia that very few others can.