Themes to Ride Along

“Drive My Car” is a song written by the great songwriting duo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

First released in the album “Rubber Soul” in the United Kingdom, it is a double entendre song, with the man suggesting of sexual favors in return for the woman’s career advancement. But a role reversal occurs by the sixth stanza, wherein the woman offers the man to become his driver!

Check out the song:

Drive My Car

Lennon/McCartney

Asked a girl what she wanted to be,

She said “Baby can’t you see

I wanna be famous, a star of the screen

But you do something in between,

Baby, you can drive my car,

Yes, I’m gonna be a star

And maybe I’ll love you”

I told that girl that my prospects were good,

And she said “Baby it’s understood

Working for peanuts is all very fine,

But I can show you a better time

Baby, you can drive my car,

Yes, I’m gonna be a star,

Baby you can drive my car,

And maybe I’ll love you”

Beep beep mm beep beep, yeah

Baby, you can drive my car,

Yes, I’m gonna be a star,

Baby you can drive my car,

And maybe I’ll love you”

I told that girl I could start right away,

And she said “listen baby I’ve got something to say,

I got no car and it’s breaking my heart

But I’ve found a driver and that’s a start”

Baby, you can drive my car,

Yes, I’m gonna be a star,

Baby you can drive my car,

And maybe I’ll love you”

Beep beep mm beep beep, yeah,

beep beep mm beep beep, yeah,

Beep beep mm beep beep, yeah

“Drive My Car” opens the album, “Rubber Soul”. It was recorded on October 13, 1965, with the session extending past midnight.