A very melancholy song by The Cars, this is written from the perspective of a guy who's watching a woman (whom he presumably used to date) "going down the tubes," trying to get her to take a hard look at what's going on in her life.
Cars frontman Ric Ocasek wrote this song, but he didn't sing the lead vocal: their bass player Ben Orr did. Orr died of Pancreatic cancer in 2000. When he died, "Drive" was played in his honor at a memorial service at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Orr also sang lead on the first Cars hit: "Just What I Needed."
The Cars resisted the urge to use automotive imagery in their songs; "Drive" is a rare instance where they did.
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