My Best Friend's Girl

Album

Cars, The

Label

Elektra Records

Genre

Power Pop

Composer(s)

Ric Ocasek

Entered Chart

Oct 21, 1978

Peak Date

Dec 23, 1978

Released

October 10, 1978

Recorded

February 1978 Studio AIR (London, UK)

Catalog #

Elektra 45537

B-Side

Don't Cha Stop

"My Best Friend's Girl" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their 1978 self-titled debut album on Elektra Records, released on June 6 of that year. Written by Ocasek as a song about something that "probably happened to a lot of people," the track found radio success as a demo in 1977. Written by Ric Ocasek and produced by Roy Thomas Baker, the song was released as the album's second single. It peaked at number 35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and reached number three in the UK. It has since been positively received by critics and included in compilation albums for the band.

You're always dancing
Down the street
With your suede blue eyes
And every new boy that you meet
He doesn't know the real surprise

(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing
'Neath the starry sky
Ooh, she'll make you flip
(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing
'Neath the starry sky
I kinda like the way she dips

She's my best friend's girl
She's my best friend's girl
But she used to be mine

You've got your nuclear boots
And your drip dry glove
Ooh, when you bite your lip
It's some reaction to
Love, oh..ove, oh..ove

(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing
'Neath the starry sky
Yeah, I think you'll flip
(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing
'Neath the starry sky
(Here she comes again)
I kinda like the way
I like the way she dips

'Cause she's my best friend's girl
Well, she's my best friend's girl
And she used to be mine
She's so fine

You're always dancing
Down the street
With your suede blue eye.. eyes
And every new boy that you meet
Doesn't know the real surprise

(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing
'Neath the starry sky
(Here she comes again)
Oh, she'll make you flip
(Here she comes again)
When she's dancing
'Neath the starry sky
(Here she comes again)
I kinda like the way
I like the way she dips

'Cause she's my best friend's girl, uh
She's my best friend's girl
She used to be mine
She so fine

(My best friend's girlfriend)
Oh
(My best friend's girlfriend)
She used to be mine
(My best friend's girlfriend)
Yeah, yeah
(My best friend's girlfriend)
Said she used to be mine
(My best friend's girlfriend)
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
(My best friend's girlfriend)
She used to be mine
(My best friend's girlfriend)
(My best friend's girlfriend)