The Cars – Just What I Needed – The Cars

I love this song anyway, because it’s so upbeat, and who could dislike a Cars song?
But I have a special memory attached to it. Spring Scream and D. who was still smitten with me (as I now know he always is, with every girl he meets). He’d crashed into bed hours after I’d called it a night, and lain on top of me muttering sweet nothings which I couldn’t hear due to the fact I was after all wearing earplugs. It was the last morning when we woke up, Sunday morning, and everyone all over the festival site was packing up. We lay in bed, holding each other and giggling about nothing. We watched some Mighty Boosh on my iPod, and then the Gary Numan song Cars was featured and D. expressed the desire to listen to it, mistakenly thinking in his drunken state that it was BY the Cars. We listened to Gary Numan and then I put some Cars on, and this was the first one that came on.

We each had an earphone and with total contempt for other people still sleeping around us, we tonelessly sang along “You’re just what I NEEDED! I needed someone to feed…” and we danced, laying on the bed with legs in the air and arms waving. Occasionally pausing to indulge in a silly, early days-kiss. I remember how right it all felt. This was only a day before he would hit me with some crap about his ex and send it all to the dogs by causing the resentment in me which would eventually lead to us breaking up. But at the time it was great… he was just what I needed, and I was just what he needed, and the world was good.

I don’t mind you comin’ here
and wastin’ all my time
’cause when you’re standin’ oh so near
I kinda lose my mind
it’s not the perfume that you wear
it’s not the ribbons in your hair
I don’t mind you comin’ here
and wastin’ all my time

I don’t mind you hangin’ out
and talkin’ in your sleep
it doesn’t matter where you’ve been
as long as it was deep, yeah
you always knew to wear it well and
you look so fancy I can tell
I don’t mind you hangin’ out
and talkin’ in your sleep

I guess you’re just what I needed
(just what I needed)
I needed someone to feed
I guess you’re just what I needed
(just what I needed)
I needed someone to bleed

I don’t mind you comin’ here
and wastin’ all my time time
’cause when you’re standin’ oh so near
I kinda lose my mind, yeah
it’s not the perfume that you wear
it’s not the ribbons in your hair
I don’t mind you comin’ here
and wastin’ all my time

I guess you’re just what I needed
(just what I needed)
I needed someone to feed
I guess you’re just what I needed
(just what I needed)
I needed someone to bleed

I guess you’re just what I needed
(just what I needed)
I needed someone to feed
I guess you’re just what I needed
(just what I needed)
I needed someone to plead
yeah, yeah, so plead me

you’re just what I needed
you’re just what I needed
yeah, you’re just what I needed
yeah, yeah yeah

~ by orange on June 26, 2007.