"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Kick, kick with the drum lick
Talkin' 'bout a girl named nikki nikki suckin' on my (whuh? )
She can't hang with the dang-a-lang
So just swang everybody say "hay!"
I come, come with the kick drum (kick drum)
Come on and gimme some (why don'tcha)
Come on and gimme some (why don'tcha)
Come on and gimme some (and let me)
Kick, kick with the drum lick
Talkin' 'bout a girl named nikki nikki suckin' on my (whuh? )
She can't hang with the dang-a-lang
So just swang everybody say "hay!"
I come, come with the kick drum (kick drum)
Come on and gimme some (why don'tcha)
Come on and gimme some (baby, why don'tcha)
Come on and gimme some (sing it for me)
Sing it for me yeah
Baby sing it for me (she want's tah)
Swing low, baby swing low
In case you didn't know
That's the way it goes
Talkin' 'bout a girl named nikki nikki suckin' on my (whuh? )
She can't hang with the dang-a-lang
So just swang everybody say "hay!"
I come, come with the kick drum (kick drum)
Come on and gimme some (why don'tcha)
Come on and gimme some (why don'tcha)
Come on and gimme some (and let me)
Kick, kick with the drum lick
Talkin' 'bout a girl named nikki nikki suckin' on my (whuh? )
She can't hang with the dang-a-lang
So just swang everybody say "hay!"
I come, come with the kick drum (kick drum)
Come on and gimme some (why don'tcha)
Come on and gimme some (baby, why don'tcha)
Come on and gimme some (sing it for me)
Sing it for me yeah
Baby sing it for me (she want's tah)
Swing low, baby swing low
In case you didn't know
That's the way it goes
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Fast Car
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Where in God's name did you get that from this song, Indiana?
this song is just so smooth..can't believe no one's commenting on it..its soo good...so is g.love tho..
your right this song is the shit
man hes so cool and so chill
This song is about a guy who starts dating a girl he has liked for a long time, but the girl is only semi interested in him because hes kind of a wennie. Then the girls ex-boyfriend gets out of rehab and she breaks up with the first guy and gets together with her more manly ex. Well the ex falls off the wagon so he gets fired from his job and starts beating that girl. The guy tries to save the girl and confronts the ex boyfriend, but the ex ends up kicking his ass. Now the girl has no respect for the guy and so decides to stay with the woman beater ex boyfriend. So the guy is forced into a lonely life because he's such a pussy and no one respects him.
No.. your all wrong.. this song is about gettin head.. a blow job for all you americans our there.. hence the lyrics "come come to the kick drum", and "sucking on my (what)"..
i kind of agree with Balno there.
they referenced this jam in that hilarious dinner scene in "The Break-Up"
singing brother to vince vaughn, "gary, on the kick drum...come, come with the kick drum!!"
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