"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.
Soft pyramids evaporate at daylight.
Internationally fashioned, like disease.
Patterned always yes, (maybe no).
This soft is bulding the softest buildings.
This soft is raising the firmest ceilings.
This soft is dimming the brightest cities every night at midnight.
How can we ask for a blanket and a habitat?
How can we ask for a place.
We can't imagine it.
How can we ask for the brightest cities overnight?
Please pick (select) a color for your chequelist.
Kiss every comma in your chequelist.
How can we ask for a blanket and a habitat?
How can we ask for the best?
We can't imagine that.
The softest blackout is still soft and black,
outside and in.
Clue me in.
Internationally fashioned, like disease.
Patterned always yes, (maybe no).
This soft is bulding the softest buildings.
This soft is raising the firmest ceilings.
This soft is dimming the brightest cities every night at midnight.
How can we ask for a blanket and a habitat?
How can we ask for a place.
We can't imagine it.
How can we ask for the brightest cities overnight?
Please pick (select) a color for your chequelist.
Kiss every comma in your chequelist.
How can we ask for a blanket and a habitat?
How can we ask for the best?
We can't imagine that.
The softest blackout is still soft and black,
outside and in.
Clue me in.
Lyrics submitted by MovieMusic84
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I think this song is about gentrification.
I think 'Soft Pyramids' refers to just the opposite of what the Egyptian Pyramids have been. They have last thousands of years, and stood hard, firm, and in place. I think what he means by Soft Pyramids is that the buildings constructed from gentrification are nothing but Soft Pyramids, that is they are like pyramids, grand in size, but soft, weak, not concrete, and nothing like the actual pyramids themselves.
"How can we ask for a blanket and a habitat? How can we ask for a place. We can't imagine it. How can we ask for the brightest cities overnight? "
This is where I'm getting the gentrification from. He's asking how can we ask for a wonderful city to be built so quickly, yet provide for the needs of everyone. And he answers we can't, we can't even imagine it.
"Internationally fashioned, like disease. Patterned always yes, (maybe no)."
I think this part suggests that gentrification has spread globally as well. Globalization. Who knows, this is what I got from it though.
All the chequelist stuff I think is referring to those benefiting from gentrification, and him telling them that they better kiss that money, because look what its cost them.
Beauty about Q and Not U is that it is so open, that everyone can bring something different to the table and give it their own personal meaning, without being wholly abstract (meaning that the songs are not so vague that one guy can claim that a song is about hating black people while another thinks its about fighting racism *bad analogy, I know)
@johnnyfuckface1 "soft pyramids" are like tents which are taken down each morning, right? So this is about people who live in fancy cities but have no real homes. "Black Plastic Bag" by the same group is about a similar thing.
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um excuse me, q and not u, but why are you so amazing?
does anyone know the lyrics to busy lights busy carpet? or ten thousand animal calls?
brilliant i tell you brilliant!!!
Hearing this song live kicks so much ass. Especially when the skinnier of the two guitarists(the one that doesn't play bass) busts out a recorder and starts jamming to the end of this song. BLAP!
It's a melodica. and it rules.
does anyone have any idea of what "soft pyramids" are, or what he means by the term?
This was the first song I heard by them- and liked it for a long time. I didn't know the name or the band and eventually found out. What a beautiful thing.
Very nice analyzation, Johnny.
every thing is simplific and comfortable.
yes.
maybe no.