# Songs that reference car crashes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258 "2008-04-21T18:10:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superfreaknduper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Superfreaknduper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfreaknduper)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/1 "2008-04-21T18:10:09Z")
Well, it is somewhat timely that I just saw the thread for “songs that feature studdering” and now I’m looking for songs that reference car crashes… I’ve got a few so far (mostly in the emo/punk vain of music) Brand New- 70 times 7 Spill Canvas- Sunsets and Car Crashes (its just the title) Brand New- Failure by Design Pearl Jam- Last Kiss there a few more I can’t find in my music library… does anybody else have any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/2 "2008-04-21T18:18:49Z")
Jan & Dean–Dead Man’s Curve ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/3 "2008-04-21T18:19:27Z")
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell (motorcycle crash) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/4 "2008-04-21T18:21:01Z")
Ringo’s song “Don’t Pass Me By” (on the Beatles’ White Album) contains the line “You were in a car crash,” which IIRC was one of the “clues” that Paul was dead. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/5 "2008-04-21T18:23:45Z")
Shangri-Las–Leader of the Pack ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/6 "2008-04-21T18:28:35Z")
Detroit Rock City Ray Peterson, Tell Laura I Love Her ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/7 "2008-04-21T18:31:08Z")
Elton John’s “Goodbye English Rose” ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/8 "2008-04-21T18:31:47Z")
Teen Angel - Mark Dinning (The gist of this song was that the heroes’ car stalled on a railroad track with a train coming. They escaped in plenty of time, but the girlfriend runs back to retrieve a class ring, with hilarious results.) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/9 "2008-04-21T18:32:16Z")
“Tonight is the Nght I Fell Asleep at the Wheel” - **Barenaked Ladies** This is a first-person account of a crash by the driver. Fantastic lyrics. and “The End of the Tour” - **They Might Be Giants** This bit seems to be first-person from the car’s point of view: > [@](#): > > _Never to part since the day we met > Out on Interstate 91 > I was bent metal you were a flaming wreck > When we kissed at the overpass > I was sailing along with the people > Driving themselves to distraction inside me > Then came a knock on the door which was odd > And the picture abruptly changed_ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/10 "2008-04-21T18:50:05Z")
Robert Mitchum’s _Ballad of Thunder Road_: > [@](#): > > He left the road at ninety > That’s all there is to say > The devil got the moonshine > And the mountain boy that day ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/11 "2008-04-21T18:50:23Z")
**Snow Patrol** - _Headlights On Dark Roads_ ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/12 "2008-04-21T18:53:32Z")
**New Girl In Town** - from the musical “Hairspray” (the new girl in town gets run over by a car.) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/13 "2008-04-21T19:14:24Z")
from the land of country: “Riding with Private Malone” - David Ball “455 Rocket” - Kathy Mattea “Three Wooden Crosses” - Randy Travis and the asinine “Jesus Take the Wheel” - Carrie Underwood hell, there’s an [Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_crash_songs) on car crash songs. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/14 "2008-04-21T19:19:08Z")
“Crawlin’ from the Wreckage” - Graham Parker “Transfusion” - Nervous Norvus “Teen Angel” - Mark Dinning ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/15 "2008-04-21T19:22:56Z")
Damn you, **Lute** , I was going to mention **Transfusion**. Oh well, I can at least post a [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_Norvus) that describes it. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/16 "2008-04-21T19:30:50Z")
[QUOTE=Superfreaknduper] Pearl Jam- Last Kiss [/QUOTE] But note that this was a late nineties cover of a song from the early sixties (first made prominent by J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers). ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/17 "2008-04-21T19:38:33Z")
The Smiths-There is a Light that Never Goes Out - And if a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side Is such a heavenly way to die And if a ten-ton truck Kills the both of us To die by your side Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine\* She’s Spanish and I’m American-Car Crash (This is a great EP) - I don’t wanna die in a car crash I’m in the back of a taxi cab, and we’re moving so fast I’ve got so much left to give, so much left to live for to think that it’s finally over, though don’t wanna die in a car crash ♬ \* ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/18 "2008-04-21T19:44:24Z")
An obscure one from the tail end of the girl group era- “Condition Red” by The Goodees. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/19 "2008-04-21T19:48:11Z")
**Understanding A Car Crash** by the band **Thursday** ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258/20 "2008-04-21T19:56:22Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] Damn you, **Lute** , I was going to mention **Transfusion**. Oh well, I can at least post a [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_Norvus) that describes it. [/QUOTE] Ever notice that the sound effects used in “Dead Man’s Curve” are the same as in “Transfusion”? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-car-crashes/446258.md?page=2)