"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.
Any minute you will feel
The chemistry
Vibrations in the brain
Can't ever be explained
Slip away and out of sigh
Feel the magnet of a night
The circus lights you see
Is where you have to be
If I've seen it all before
Why's this bus taking me back again
If I don't need anymore
Why's this bus taking me back again
Feel the weight of letting go
Feel more lightness than you've ever known
You can't see when light`s so strong
You can't see when light is gone
The chemistry
Vibrations in the brain
Can't ever be explained
Slip away and out of sigh
Feel the magnet of a night
The circus lights you see
Is where you have to be
If I've seen it all before
Why's this bus taking me back again
If I don't need anymore
Why's this bus taking me back again
Feel the weight of letting go
Feel more lightness than you've ever known
You can't see when light`s so strong
You can't see when light is gone
Lyrics submitted by tfwo, edited by Discordman
Twisterella Lyrics as written by Laurence John Colbert Andrew Bell
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I believe it's about LSD. The "bus taking me back again" is a reference to an acid flashback.
Great song can't help but feel good when listening to it.
What a fantastic tune - simply puts me straight back in Uni in 1993. In a bad mood this song will pick up up in the first 5 seconds. Great great great underrated band!
it certainly is.
i dont think the bus refers to flashbacks though - that happens much later ;-) is more like a self-referential circumpoint in a trip where your brain keeps going round in circles - like when you cant sleep during teh night, , , why am i awake at 6.30am, , , i noes, lets play twisterella,,,
I definitely think it's about an acid trip too.
It's about their trips from OX4 to London on the bus and reminiscing about good times there. Acid trips might have been part of those bus trips!
I think this is about acid too. But then i thought OX4 had a deeper meaning to it than it actually does. :-/
It appears i have been singing along incorrectly all this time. Even though the lyrics are in the cassette iirc.
I thought it was....(changes in CAPITALS)
Slip away and out of sighT Feel the MAGIC of THE night The circus lights you see Is WAITING THERE FOR ME
Seems i was mistaken.
My lyrics are deffo better though.
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