Lyrics for Last Name as interpreted by dontwasteyoursong

Last Name Lyrics
Last night I got served
A little too much of that poison baby
And last night I did things I'm not proud of
And I got a little crazy
Last night I met a guy on the dancefloor
And I let him call me baby

And I don't even know his last name
Oh my mama would be so ashamed
It started off "Hey cutie where are you from"
And then it turned into "Oh no what have I done"
And I don't even know his last name
Oh here we go

We left the club, right around
3 o'clock in the morning
His Pinto sitting there in the parking lot
Well it should've been a warning
I had no clue what I was getting into
So I'll blame it on the Cuervo
Oh where did my manners go

And I don't even know his last name
Oh my mama would be so ashamed
It started off "Hey cutie where are you from"
And then it turned into "Oh no what have I done"
And I don't even know his last name
Oh here we go

Today I woke up thinking about Elvis, somewhere in Vegas
I'm not sure how I got here
Or how this ring on my left hand just appeared out of nowhere
I gotta go, I take the chips and the Pinto
And hit the road
They say "What happens here, stays here"
All of this will disappear
There's just one little problem

I don't even know my last name
Oh my mama would be so ashamed
It started off "Hey cutie where are you from"
And then it turned into "Oh no what have I done"
And I don't even know his last name
Oh here we go

What have I done
What have I done
What have I done
Oh what have I done
I don't even know my last name

Well it turned into "Oh no what have I done"
And I don't even know my last name
Yeah, yeah-yeah, whoo

It started off "Hey cutie where are you from"
And then it turned into "Oh no what have I done"
And I don't even know my last name
Oh yeah

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iheartyoubaby
10-26-2007

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This is my favorite song off the new album.
Carrie should toally make this her next single.. It would be a big hit!

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snickers281
10-28-2007

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Bad Carrie!

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krriisttii
10-31-2007

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i have a theory;
this is the next "Before He Cheats"


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paigeraquel
11-25-2007

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hahaha , this song is great.

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joe walsh rules
12-06-2007

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this song is amazing anyway its about carrie having a night out and getting smashed lol ya gotta love carrie

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kdonbabe
01-23-2008

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WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT??!!! THIS SONG PROMOTES DRINKING, GETTING IN A CAR WITH A GUY U DON'T KNOW, AND LEAVING THE PERSON U SO WRONGLY MARRIED, AND YOU'RE TREATING IT LIKE IT'S ONE OF MOTZART'S CLASSICS??!! I mean COME ON!! GET IT TOGETHER!!

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luluxx712
01-27-2008

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kdonbabe, she's not PROMOTING it she's saying how its bad. It's just a song chill. There's MUCH worse songs out there about MUCH worse things. Anyway, a really easy song to understand. She just got drunk at a club, had sex with some guy who's last name she didn't know, woke up confused and saw a ring on her left ring finger, thought "oh shit I married a guy and not i don't even know my OWN last name" and how her mother would be ashamed. tada! :]

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Sweenys_waiting
04-05-2008

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I agree although I've hated Carrie ever since she sung that phsycopath song Before He Cheats I hate this song because the vocals are all over the place and I find it a bit unsavory...

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cullen-angelz84
05-12-2008

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Sweenys waiting the vocals aren't all over the place she just has a big voice so obiviously you are hearing things and this is a good song, and before he cheats is a good song i guess some people dont apreciate country

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karenbabesx
06-08-2008

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i can understand why Sweenys_waiting doesn't like 'before he cheats' because it is kind of psycopathic, she smashed up his car for cheating, but its funny and i still love it. and this because its just funny. its just like the film 'what happens in vegas' where they get married whilst drunk and regret it. its a really good song.

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yay4school
06-30-2008

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if it made me millions and famous id sing a psychopathic song too....

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Sweenys_waiting
07-11-2008

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Big voice? You have GOT to be kidding me! Carrie admit that she didnt agree with the message that she was singing in before he cheats! Try Panic at the disco. They beat the crap out of Carrie. And they have personality!

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havana4sale
08-06-2008

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Hahaha, I ran into this song by accident on Much More Music...I still don't know why I ever flip onto that channel...ugh. Anyways, there are only two things that I don't understand about this song; one: why does ANYONE care about some STUPID chick who drank too much and couldn't remember her own last name; two: why do any of you care about a song about someone forgetting their own last name. It doesn't make sense! It's like you people have no knowledge of music whatsoever? This song has no cultural relevance or even originality; it is completely redundant in pretty much every way, but obviously it's working because Carrie Underwood has enough money to buy ten fucking mansions or whatever. This music is bad for society...yes, even worse than metal *rolls eyes*. It completely supports the idea of seperate classes within a society, as Carrie Underwood would be in the UPPER upper class, therefore meaning that there isn't a consistent state of equality...fuckin' pop-country stars.

hahaha Panic At The Disco beats the crap out of Carrie Underwood, so you want to know who beats the crap out of Panic At The Disco? EVERYONE!

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Sweenys_waiting
08-08-2008

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Ahhh... *slowly shakes head* Panic at the disco is a great band. I'm sorry your small mind can't understand panic's lyrics so you think they're "stupid". Don't worry, you're not the only idiot that thinks that.

P.S. PUNK CABARET IS FREEDOM!!!
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Letmein
08-09-2008

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Gosh, and here I was thinking the song required no real explanation and Havana4sale comes along and proves me wrong. It's not that she doesn't "remember" her last name, its that she never found it out. The song's a cautionary parable about drinking too much and is rather clever. It starts out as one of those singles scene war stories where under the influence you end up sleeping with a stranger but then pulls the twist ending. She hasn't merely slept with him, she's actually married him, and because she ran as soon as she sobered up without ever finding out his last name, her refrain of "I don't even know his last name" becomes "I don't even know MY last name".

It's funny.

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havana4sale
08-10-2008

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EXCUSE ME for not nailing the EXACT meaning of the song on the head, but that's kind of beside my point: that people shouldn't be paying attention to these people. I'm the idiot? How many of you people have bought this chick's album? If I'm such an idiot, then how come I haven't? Also, that kind of proves part of my point; that, in fact, yes, she is a VERY stupid person. Instead of simply having a drunken one-night stand with a stranger, she marries him.

As if she weren't lazy enough to skip out on getting a real occupation, like a real human being, she's lazy in her writing too, with "yeah, yeah-yeah, whoo" even being included in the lyrical encryptions, giving implications of actual importance to these "words." The closing line of this song is "Oh yeah."

Yuh. Very funny. I'm laughing.

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TheLastLaugh666m/
08-10-2008

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Well since there is a great debate behind the true meaning, I will attempt to analyze each stanza of this song and come to a conclusion at the end on the true meaning.
Stanza 1) It appears as she drank too much alcohol or poison(great metaphor by the way) she lost her sense of judgment and met this African-American on the dance floor in which she proceeded to challenge him to a dance off which was senseless on her part because it resulted in her getting served.
Stanza 2,4,6) She admits that she did not know his name making him a stranger. Later on she says "Oh no what have I done?" meaning she cannot fathom what she has just done which leads to "Oh here we go" in a distraught or sarcastic way
Stanza 3) It is now 3 A.M. clearly past her bedtime and this guy's horse is sitting in the parking lot probably starved to death unless she's speaking figuratively. A warning? obviously this man is the African-American(Black) Knight. At this moment I'm beginning to think she's on drugs because she starts speaking Spanglish by speaking about a "cuervo" which is a crow or raven for you non-Spanish speakers.
Stanza 5) Well now it appears she has had one wild morning thinking about Elvis which may be her new husband's name. O.K. at this point of the song I have become fucking dumbfounded to where these chips she's speaking of came from and what kind of chips. Since she is in Vegas supposedly I will assume casino chips but then again if she steals Elvis' horse she might want some food for the journey so they could also be potato chips. Yeah there is a problem, when they say "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" they also mean for you to not a write a terrible song about your misfortune because you may make the city of Las Vegas look bad.
Stanza 7) She now repeats "What have I done?" about four times before coming to the fact she doesn't know his last name which is stupid. Word of advice...better find out because that's your last name too now you dumb broad
Stanza 8&9) Pretty much the same as Stanzas 2,4&6 but with added yeahs and a whoo just in case someone may be listening and reading the lyrics and suddenly get thrown off because the yeahs and a whoo aren't there.
To sum up all of this "Carrie Underwood can't write songs for shit; I think her parents might be brother and sister"

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Letmein
08-10-2008

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Choosing not to buy a song you don't understand does not put you on some kind of higher intellectual plane. You were wrong about the song lacking social relevance. Alchohol abuse is very socially relevant. The next single out of that album is an interesting cap to "Before He Cheats" and "Last Name" (which are linked together in the videos). While the first two songs are about women who make injudicious lovelife choices probably while drunk in "Before He Cheats" and definitely in "Last Name" the next one is "Wasted" about people who decide not to waste their lives on a bad relationship or a drinking problem.

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havana4sale
08-10-2008

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Why are you defending her so much?! She's just another celebrity! I'll bet that a whole bunch of you are the type of people to cry over something like Heath Ledger dying. This woman is no genius either (thank you LastLaugh for backing me up on that); this woman has simply written a song that ANYONE else on this forum could have written, and the only difference being that she wrote it first, and that much can't even be said for her. This song has pretty much been re-written over, over, over again THOUSANDS of times by different country-western artists. It's a simple formula: do something (or imagine something) regrettable; write a song about it; get people to pity you for doing said thing; make money. This song isn't even true, and she only co-wrote it. Like I mentioned before, the quality of song-writing isn't even good here, whereas she uses such non-words as: "yeah, yeah-yeah, whoo" (I call these non-words because they do not have any actual meaning within the song besides filling in space) and even has an entire stanza dedicated to:
"What have I done
What have I done
What have I done
Oh no, what have I done"

When I say that this song is not socially relevant, I simply mean that she is not introducing anything new or original whatsoever. As mentioned before, she is working a formula that has been worked by thousands of 'artists' if they may so be called that.

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havana4sale
08-10-2008

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Something else that I would like to bring up is how much attention this woman's product is receiving. I've calculated that since she has started releasing music (or at least since her songs have begun activity on this site) there have been 334 total comments on her collection of 31 songs, receiving an average of nearly 11 comments per song. Now look at the influential, ever-evolving, yet now deceased career (RIP Chuck Schuldiner) and look at the amount of comments received: 272 (giving an average of 4.4 comments per song out of a 62 song catalogue). Notice how Death has exactly twice as many songs (by my count) as Carrie Underwood? And yet, after just two albums she has received more attention than Death has after releasing six genre defying metal albums. Now, I understand that this is a very simple survey and does not do complete justice to Death, but it is, in a way, quite accurate.

I wonder why this might be? Could it be because death metal does not have instant appeal, or simply because it's "bad music" no matter how creative and intelligently written it may be. I've listened to a very large portion of Carrie Underwood's songs and have formed the opinion that, yes, this is the case. Carrie Underwood is easy to listen to, therefore making it simple.
I'm willing to bet that after a few weeks, all or most of the people posting on this forum will have gotten bored and moved onto a different song that has a hook that they aren't bored of, and I'm still gonna be enjoying the hell out of Human or Individual Thought Patterns by Death and discovering more and more things about their music.

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Letmein
08-10-2008

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I didn't defend her. I merely explained the lyrics to someone who couldn't figure them out. Explaining the meaning of lyrics after all, is what this site is for. However, I should mention that "socially relevant" doesn't mean "original", and the song doesn't inspire much pity what with the upbeat tempo and comedic punchline.

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havana4sale
08-10-2008

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Haha touche Letmein, touche, but do take note that I did not use both "social relevance" and "originality" interchangeably, but rather both in the same sentence. However, now that you mention it, I suppose that you are right in your saying so, but that does not make the song any more original or even interesting (in my own opinion, of course; much apologies).

The matter of inspiring pity is not found within the song (I personally find the music within the song itself to be the most generic part of the song) as it is being sung, as the whole purpose of this song is most likely to garner attention from fans and newcomers and give people something to nod their heads to, but rather, read as a poem.

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havana4sale
08-10-2008

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Oh wait, I did use "socially relevant" and "original" interchangeably...whoops...
I guess "social relevance" was the wrong term to use, but even so if you think about it, the song isn't very socially relevant because, like I said before, she isn't introducing anything new; the words spoken in this song have been spoken many times before. I would say that it can be seen as a cautionary tale, but not entirely "socially relevant."

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TheLastLaugh666m/
08-11-2008

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how about this song fucking sucks along with every other Carrie Underwood song

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havana4sale
08-12-2008

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hahaha amen to that!

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