"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.
And this I know his teeth as white as snow
What a gas it was to see him
Walk her everyday into a shady place
With her lips she said
She said, "Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball"
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Lovely legs there are
What a big black mass, what a hunk of love
He'll walk her every day into a shady place
Like the dark, but I'd want him
"Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball"
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
What a gas it was to see him
Walk her everyday into a shady place
With her lips she said
She said, "Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball"
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Lovely legs there are
What a big black mass, what a hunk of love
He'll walk her every day into a shady place
Like the dark, but I'd want him
"Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul
Let's have a ball"
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
A big, big love
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Gigantic Lyrics as written by Charles Thompson Kim Deal
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i agree, but i think it is possible that this song has nothing to do with a black man and possibly more of a metaphor of a forbidden love that no-one else approves of cuz he either is or is not good for her. and gigantic could be a metaphor for the emotin from all that, like the pain, passion, pleasure, situation, irony, etc. ....or it could just be about BBC. only the artist truly knows, no matter what they say, and our guessing and mixed multiple interpretations are a gigantic part of the beauty of music and all art.
Orrrrrr......<br /> <br /> It's just about a big black cock. Don't know, don't care. Cool song.<br /> <br /> Me personally, I always felt like maybe the dude was big physically, as in physique , and thought maybe he was black guy given the lyrics. But maybe he's a white guy with really white teeth, and he's silouhetted or something... Or maybe I am rationalizing it so that he's not a big black guy... But now that EVERYONE mentions it or forbids the mention of it.. hell, it could be about his cock. Shit, good for her. Let her have what she craves, whatever it is. If she ain't getting it this way, she's finding another way courtesy your local grocer or sex shop, so no use getting worked up over it.
The racist thing is, in the past, the myth about black guys and their enormous tools, along with their rampant sexuality and amazing skillz at doin' it, were used to portray black men as more animal-like, more basic, less sophisticated than white people. It is racist in origin, some black men have massive cocks, but according to surveys they're about the same as white men, on average. <br /> <br /> I saw a documentary and at least one black guy was upset, in that every girl expected him to have a massive wang, when he was just averagely provided. Annnyway. I asked my sister, and she'd know, if THAT fact is true. She says some black guys are, some aren't. Just like every other kind of person.