Saint Etienne - Hit The Brakes Lyrics

Cool and deadly.....

Kids need to know this is a Neil Young song.

1990 👀👀still ♥️ it

When you were young and on your own
How did it feel to be alone
I was always thinking of games that I was playing
Trying to make the best of my time

But only love can break your heart
Try to be sure right from the start
Yes, only love can break your heart
But if your world should fall apart

I have a friend I've never seen
He hides his head inside a dream
Someone should call him and see if he can come out
Try to lose the down that he's found

But only love can break your heart
Try to be sure right from the start
Yes, only love can break your heart
But if your world should fall apart

I was always thinking... I was always thinking...
I was always thinking... I was always thinking...
I was always thinking... I was always thinking...
I was always thinking...

I was always thinking of games that I was playing
I was always thinking of games that I was playing
I was always thinking... I was always thinking...
I was always thinking... I was always thinking... I... I... I... I...
I was always thinking of games that I was playing
I was always thinking of games that I was playing
I was always thinking of games that I was playing
I was always thinking of games that I was playing

Makes me cry this song and I don't know why.

Great Times

Thank You : )

Love this tune to the South of France and back

Sympa morceau intéressant
Nouvel chanteuse
Belle voix jolie aussi

This era was fckg lava!.....🔥😘

Many thanks Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs.

And Moira Lambert, who sang on this track

Blessfull Times... when the world was a safer place..

is it me or is that a Sheffield United mug features in this video played it back and it's sheffield then the next bit you last bit of sheffield and United so yep it's a blade just adds that extra bit of class to an otherwise great video and fantastic song and a beautiful Sarah cracknell

Sarah Cracknell? Not in this video m8.

Charlton athletic 😂 wawaw

Way ahead of its time.

Melhor clipe, grande Lucy😘😘😘😍

This song brings my youth flooding back like a tidal wave 😕

ettiene forever xxx

Moira from Faith Over Reason!

this is so nice

This is literally the solution to all world's problems.

How can this not have like 100 millions of views?

because it is crap

because bad taste rules this world

Agreed - Its a classic track

Never like St Etienne. However Ithink it was in large part 'they were too commercial' snobism. maybe ^^. But always loved this tune - just a beautiful house track :)

Magnif.

love this tune

It's fucking shit bet Neil Young is furious with this version my pleasure was unlocking it

Brandon Duquemin I thin they did a pretty good job, turning a folk rock song into a house pop song is not easy

My favourite St Etienne track. And there are many.

Quando baixei o álbum Music da Madonna essa música vinha como bônus, identificada como "Cyberraga", o bonus que saiu só na edição japonesa do álbum. Passei anos acreditando que era mesmo Madonna quem cantava essa música até descobrir que fui enganado, hehe... Mas continuo curtindo a m´suica.

ahamezu Lo mismo me pasó a mí! También bajé un álbum de Madonna y me salió esta canción, así descubri esta banda.

Saint Etienne es una gran banda

 Fake Cyberraga

OMG! I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers that

крутая песня.а девушка очень милая)

@ Vincent Vega

Bollocks, they look like a pair of skint wannabe hipster students at the SU bar indie night.

Thankfully Saint Etienne got so much better than this stinker.

Lots of bands had the baggy clothes & and floppy fringe this going on back then. That was the fashion.

As for calling it a stinker, well what I imagine you're really saying is that you don't appreciate this genre. A lot of indie dance (and also shoegaze) from this era had hazy, wispy vocals, steady breakbeats, heavy reverbs and psychedelic effects. In the late 80s and early 90s ecstasy was a very pure and powerful drug and lsd was also readily available. Much of the music at the time reflected the altered state brought on by such drugs and this song is no exception.

@PrimeM92 I know it was the fashion, I lived through this particular low point in popular style.

Can't believe I called this a song a stinker. Dull and dated for sure but also pleasant enough if over long.

I think it's the exactly the production style you mention that alienates me from this music. It's neither psychedelic nor funky enough to engage me. Plus I was never a LSD or ecstasy man (cocaine on the other hand...) so I don't make the connection.

@Jehovah Kill Ok fair point. Well we all have different tastes. I like this track as I have some good memories from that time (I didn't try any drugs until a few years later though). I was a fan of a lot of stuff by St. Etienne though, Join Our Club, Like a Motorway, Nothing Can Stop Us and even the cheesy but uplifting He's on the Phone. Great band all round.

only saint etienne can wear this horrible "españa european union" shirt and still be cool XD

Dancin´Neil young

Moira Lambert

absolutely

only love will set you free ...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

And did it break, my heart...

Possibly the best cover ever....

What an incredibly cute girls she is.

@mikey Gay.

Belting tune. I can only think fannyhawkes can hear something completely different to me. Ace.

Download adblock mate. Costs nothing except maybe 5 minutes of your life. Never see an advert again, result!

if you have the original album its worth reading the inner cover to see the inspiration for the songs, really very warming :)

I love this song so much... It was quite hard discover who sang it, haha.

what a beautiful girl and beauty voice!!!

She isn't singing this.

i love Saint Etienne.. am not so keen on the 19 seconds of MacDonalds advert. grr.

I swear I thought it was Madonna's voice until today.

good song !

You are indeed a fanny.

sad??!? this is totally life affirming!

My favourite sad tune

ha. Not quite. But I like a neil young cover. i.e. Nicolette Larson, Lotta Love

Are you Sarah Cracknell?

Um, what's wrong with singing like a 10 year old? I love Neil, from Tonight's the Night to Harvest, from Trans to On the Beach. Tho you can take Weld, thank you very much. Point is, the original of this song is a killer. But I did this cover for its very vapid French sixties chanson style.

Tho admittedly, that house piano has dated QUITE A BIT.

oxygen for me

alot of this video is fimled around the tufnell park and gospal oak area of north london, he bit against the wall with 'go home bible mike' is on burghley road and its the wall of my old school acland burghley.
the bit with thw lido sign in the background is hampstead heath lido,
charlton court is on breaknock road and all thisis where i live and have grown up.
i love this song and stumbled across it a few years ago..

Enjoy this great piece of music everyone

My fave pop band - need a happy tune atm. :o

Soothing

:-( :-D :-)

Should have more views.Quality group and track..

Nice video, good photography, I like the style: very 80s!!

One of the best 90's dance records! :)

This has to be one of my favourite song of the 1990s :-)