Hey, wake up, your eyes weren't open wide
For the last couple of miles you've been swerving from side to side
You're gonna make me spill my beer,
If you don't learn how to steer

Passenger side, passenger side,
I don't like riding on the passenger side

Roll another number for the road
You're the only sober person I know
Won't you let me make you a deal,
Just get behind the wheel

Passenger side, passenger side,
I don't like riding on the passenger side

Should've been the driver, could've been the one
I should've been your lover, but I hadn't seen

Can you take me to the store, then the bank?
I've got five dollars we can put in the tank
I've got a court date coming this June
I'll be driving soon

Passenger side, passenger side,
I don't like riding on the passenger side
I don't like riding on the passenger side



Lyrics submitted by OwnPersonalDemon

Track duration: 03:34

"Passenger Side" as written by Jeff Tweedy

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

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    General Comment:If any of you have ever been arrested for DUI and no what it is like to not be able to drive anywhere after having your license suspended, then I don't think there's anything about this song that is a real mystery. Pretty damn literal, if you ask me!
    Flag treeceon October 09, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Hello out there!
    Clearly the driver isn't driving.
    Tweedy says "let me make you a deal-
    just get behind the wheel"
    He says this after he sings
    "You're gonna make me spill my beer
    if you don't learn how to steer"
    They have been swerving all around
    with this other person "in control"
    of the situation. I think he is saying
    that he normally "wears the pants"
    in relationships and he allowed
    this other person to be in charge
    and it is a swerving, swilling, spilling,
    completely f-ed up mess. Maybe the
    relationship "drove" him to drinking too
    much.

    He doesn't like riding on the passenger side.
    He likes control, people.

    5 comments for this song? Are you kidding me?
    Wilco gets ignored while Eminem gets worshipped.
    What a sad, sad world we live in.


    Flag baraboomon September 09, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:wow i found this song less... deep. i just pictured a couple friends driving down a dark stretch of highway after a party. and while a bit drunk the person starts thinking about his life. For example "Should've been the driver, could've been the one/I should've been your lover, but I hadn't seen..." is about missing an opportunity with a significant other... you know?
    Flag awesomeness0ensuedon July 04, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Some people are content being passengers on the path of life some want to be drivers and some are drivers…
    Flag ray_killeenon November 25, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:someone who is backseat driving from the passenger side, who really deep down wishes they could be the sober one to drive the car, but love to get drunk. thus having the court date in june, offering money for gas, going to the bank....or in my group of friends case taco bell!
    Flag barr27on March 22, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Don't we all know this person.
    Flag blake31069on January 12, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i love this song!!
    Flag beanickaon October 18, 2004   Link

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