"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.
Caught me with your video lies
It gives you something to lie about
Watch me with your retail eye
It gives you someone to spy on
Stab me with your double blade knife
It gives you something to cry about
Drive me with your chemical high
It gives you something to ride on
I may be an evil girl, with my Colgate smile
And if I am an evil girl, you can put me on trial
I want to kill on video, I want to go real far
Let me kill celebrities, I'll be your next media superstar
Scare me with your little disguise
It gives me someone to hide from
Eating all your roaches and flies
In my mouth like bubble gum
Scar me with your venomous lies
It always helped me remember
Feed you cause them razor blades
Cause nothing lasts forever
I may be an evil girl, with my Colgate smile
And if I am an evil girl, you can put me on trial
I want to kill on video, I want to go real far
Let me kill celebrities and be your next media superstar
(Kill me)
Buy me
Kill me
Fuck me
Buy me
Hurt me
(I'm hurting)
Watch me
You destroy me
(I can't take this shit)
It gives you something to lie about
Watch me with your retail eye
It gives you someone to spy on
Stab me with your double blade knife
It gives you something to cry about
Drive me with your chemical high
It gives you something to ride on
I may be an evil girl, with my Colgate smile
And if I am an evil girl, you can put me on trial
I want to kill on video, I want to go real far
Let me kill celebrities, I'll be your next media superstar
Scare me with your little disguise
It gives me someone to hide from
Eating all your roaches and flies
In my mouth like bubble gum
Scar me with your venomous lies
It always helped me remember
Feed you cause them razor blades
Cause nothing lasts forever
I may be an evil girl, with my Colgate smile
And if I am an evil girl, you can put me on trial
I want to kill on video, I want to go real far
Let me kill celebrities and be your next media superstar
(Kill me)
Buy me
Kill me
Fuck me
Buy me
Hurt me
(I'm hurting)
Watch me
You destroy me
(I can't take this shit)
Lyrics submitted by Catatonik
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I think this song is about the music industry and how it kills the true meaning when artists try to express themselves. They obviously tried to fuck Jessicka up the ass at one point or another....
This is true, this song was on their fourth and last Demo Tape,1996's "Cannibal Songbook," just prior to their self released 1997 debut album "Sexless Demons and Scars."
I need this song! The lyrics are so awsome! "Eating all your roaches and flies In my mouth like bubble gum"
I love it when she goes all dark and morbid with her lyrics.
Me too- Jack Off Jill has some of the best lyrics.<br /> <br /> points to username
The remastered version form the original Demo Tape was released on 2006's "Teenage Humid Mediocrity."
I think this song is simply about the media. People go over the edge to try and exploit celebrities and accuse them of just everything and anything. All this is done just for people to buy the stuff. In doing this they can destroy someone's life and career by exposing something they kept secret. The media then has to find a new victim to watch and tell lies about.
"I want to kill on video, I want to go real far Let me kill celebrities, I'll be your next media superstar" If she killed on video all the media's eyes would be on her, she would be the media superstar of the moment. Celebrities try to get the media's attention, and scandals catch their attention. It's all about pushing the envelopes and trying to be as shocking as they can.
This song is just about how the media rules over all these days.
i got it now, it's pretty grungy...