“Drive-In Saturday” is the third track on 1973’s Aladdin Sane. The track was released as a single later that year, reaching #3 on the charts.
Per Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust Tour…
It was about the future, and it’s about a future where people have forgotten how to make love, so they go back ont...
[Intro]
Ha!
[Verse 1]
Let me put my arms around your head (do-doo-ah)
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 (do-doo-ah)
Pour me out another phone (do-doo-ah)
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
[Pre-Chorus]
And try to get it on like once before,
When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored
Like the video films we saw
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
Jung the foreman prayed at work (do-doo-ah)
That neither hands nor limbs would burst
It's hard enough to keep formation
Amid this fall out saturation (do-doo-ah)
Cursing at the Astronette (do-doo-ah)
Who stands in steel by his cabinet
He's crashing out with Sylvian
The bureau Supply for ageing men
[Pre-Chorus]
With snorting head he gazes to the shore
Where once had raged the sea that raged no more
Like the video films we saw
[Chorus]
His name was always Buddy (do-doo-ah)
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
And she'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid (do-doo-ah)
And turn her face away
She's uncertain if she likes him (do-doo-ah)
But she knows she really loves him
It's a crash course for the ravers (do-doo-ah)
It's a drive-in Saturday, yeah
[Chorus]
His name was always Buddy (do-doo-ah)
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
And she'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid (do-doo-ah)
And turn her face away
She's uncertain if she likes him (do-doo-ah)
But she knows she really loves him
It's a crash course for the ravers (do-doo-ah)
It's a drive in Saturday, yeah, yeah
[Outro]
Drive-in Saturday
It's a drive-in Saturday
It's a drive-in Saturday (drive, drive-in Saturday)
It's a drive-in Saturday (it's a, it's a, it's a drive-in Saturday)
It's a drive-in Saturday (it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a)
(It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a)
It's a drive-in Saturday
It's a drive-in Saturday
It's a drive-in Saturday
It's a drive-in Saturday
Drive-In Saturday was written by David Bowie.
Drive-In Saturday was produced by David Bowie & Ken Scott.
David Bowie released Drive-In Saturday on Fri Apr 06 1973.