Worthless is a song from the 1987 animated film The Brave Little Toaster. It is sung by the Junkyard Cars, who tell their life stories as they are sent to their deaths by the Giant Magnet.
Lyrics
I can't take this kind of pressure
I must confess one more dusty road
Would be just a road too long
Worthless
I just can't, I just can't
I just can't seem to get started
Don't have the heart to live in the fast lane
All that has passed and gone
Worthless
And there ain't nothing you can do about it
Worthless
Pardon me while I panic!
Worthless, worthless, worthless
I come from KC Missouri
And I got my kicks out on Route 66
Every truck stop from Butte to MO
Motown to Old Alabama
From Texarkana and east of Savannah
From Tampa to old Kokomo
Worthless
I once ran the Indy 500
I must confess I'm impressed how I did it
I wonder how close that I came
Now I get a sinking sensation
I was the top of the line, out of sight; out of mind
So much for fortune and fame
Once took a Texan to a wedding
Once took a Texan to a wedding
He kept forgetting, his loneliness letting
His thoughts turn to home and we turned
I took a man to a graveyard
I beg your pardon, it's quite hard enough
Just living with the stuff I have learned
Worthless
Once drove a surfer to sunset
There were bikinis and buns there were weenies
Fellini just couldn't forget
Pico, let's go up to Zuma
Pico, let's go up to Zuma
From Zuma to Yuma the rumor was
I had a hand in the lay of the land
Get up and go hit the highway
(Oo-wooh...)
I worked on a reservation
(Ooh...ooh...)
Who would believe they would love me and leave
On a bus back to old Santa Fe?
Once in an Indian Nation,
I took the kids on the skids where the Hopi
Was happy 'til I heard 'em say...
"You're worthless."
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Trivia
- Worthless is generally considered to be one of the darkest songs to ever be featured in a Disney film.
- According to the producer, due to one particular moment where one of the cars seemingly commits suicide by driving into the Crusher, the song was almost cut from the film entirely, although it was kept in for unknown reasons.
- Interestingly, the song briefly mentions Walt Disney's hometown, Kansas City, Missouri.