Originally titled “Uber,” but due to copyright reasons, its title was changed to “Taxi.” The track has remained unreleased ever since Alex Porat debuted it as a performance during a YouTube live stream, in celebration for her then new EP, bad at breakups.
The track was ultimately released on August...
[Verse 1]
When I get home
Probably check my phone one thousand times
Just to make sure I'm not the only one who's feeling this
Is it just me
Or did the summer just fly by?
I wish I'd met you at the start of it
[Chorus]
I left my heart in the back of a taxi
I think I left it there on the backseat
I called the driver, please drive it back to me
I left my heart in the back
I left my heart in the back of a taxi
Could've fell out somewhere on the side street
I called the driver, please drive it back to me
I left my heart in the back of a taxi
[Verse 2]
I get in my head
I've always been like that
But you said, "You thought some times could paralyze you, too"
And I just felt something
And maybe it's nothing at all
Or maybe it's the end of the world as I know it
[Chorus]
I left my heart in the back of a taxi (Taxi)
I think I left it there on the backseat (Left it there)
I called the driver, please drive it back to me
I (I), left my heart in the back
I left my heart in the back of a taxi (Taxi)
Could've fell out somewhere on the side street (Left it there)
I called the driver, please drive it back to me
I (I), left my heart in the back of a taxi
[Bridge]
Maybe it's the cheap champagne
Chemicals inside my brain
Or maybe we both feel the same
We'll never know, never know
[Chorus]
I left my heart in the back of a taxi
I think I left it there on the backseat
I called the driver, please drive it back to me
I left my heart in the back
I left my heart in the back of a taxi (Taxi)
Could've fell out somewhere on the side street (Left it there)
I called the driver, please drive it back to me
I (I), left my heart in the back of a taxi
[Post-Chorus]
Oh-oh, oh-oh
taxi was written by Alex Porat & DCF & Jeff Hazin.
taxi was produced by Jeff Hazin.
Alex Porat released taxi on Wed Aug 25 2021.
“I wanted ‘taxi’ to reflect how it feels to have a crush on someone. When you want someone but you’re dead set on never telling them how you feel so you just live your life in limbo.”
— Alex Porat via The Hidden Hits