Saturday I jotted down some words I cried
All about a girl that I thought I loved
Told a story of what we did and what went wrong
You've heard it all before its the same old shit

So I won't bore you with all the details
I'm sure that you can listen between the lines
I screwed her and she screwed me, but we never once had sex
All we ever had is too much time

Love is just a joyride
Drink a lot of beer and climb inside
Lay your foot down on the gas
Leave it there until you crash

This part of the song is called the second verse
Sounds just like the first verse but with different words
But all it has is three chords and they are A D E and D
There are A D and E and D
There goes the Dm D A E D

Love is just a joyride
Drink a lot of beer and climb inside
Lay your foot down on the gas
Leave it there until you crash

Love is just a joyride



Lyrics submitted by prod

Track duration: 03:37

"Joyride" as written by Kristen Barry

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:this song sounds alot like a blink182 song well at least the corus does the rest of the song's lyrics dont sound like blink
    Flag AimlessyEatingon April 10, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I like listening to this song while Snowboarding.
    Flag DarkDefenderon September 25, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I love built to spill but this song is fucking stupid.
    Flag k0rkadon April 28, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:No one mentioned the best line in the song, 'I screwed her and she screwed me, we never once had sex'.

    This whole song is cynical, and live to the fullest, forget the crap and move on.

    I still like it.
    Flag MamasanScaron July 26, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I would like to note that joyrides are a bad idea and never end up well. Perhaps he has the same feelings towards love.
    Flag lepidoptera3on April 28, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:i love this song. i think the A, E, D chords are mocking of how old school punk bands used to only use three or four chords in every song. "This is a chord... this is another... this is a third... Now form a band."
    Flag constanton April 08, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:this song rocks along with like every other built to spill song i dont have the meaning right now but maybe i will later...
    Flag *Modest_ Mouse*on February 04, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:Love is awesome, but even if you live to be 100 and your partner dies, it is eventually going to end. Alot of people get hurt by love and get "wise" thinking that they wont ever allow themselves to feel, so that they wont get hurt like that again.

    This song tells people to love fearlessly (not carelessly) and to enjoy the ride before the crash... dont spend so much time worrying about the crash...enjoy the ride.
    Flag Bellyfull of Swanson January 16, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:interesting im not sure of the meaning but i like it!
    Flag ryang11r0yon April 07, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:I do! I do!

    This is one of their most straight-forward songs. He's wryly joking about how this is just the typical song about love and how wonderful it seems and then it always ends up in pain. He's saying how it doesn't matter what the details to his story are, because it happens to everyone just slightly differently. It's the same thing again and again in songs. All of them can just be summarized nicely by "love is just a joyride. drink a lot of beer and climb inside. lay your foot down on the gas. leave it there until you crash." brilliant.
    Flag narsilon September 14, 2002   Link

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