"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.
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Wieder lieg' ich auf der Lauer
Denn wir spielen unser Spiel
Wieder wart' ich an der Mauer
Wieder steh' ich kurz vorm Ziel
Und ich höre deinen Atem
Und ich rieche deine Angst
Ich kann nicht mehr länger warten
Denn ich weiß, was du verlangst
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eins, zwei, drei, vier,
Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig dich nicht
Ständig ruf' ich deinen Namen
Ständig such' ich dein Gesicht
Wenn ich dich dann endlich habe
Spielen wir Wahrheit oder Pflicht
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eins, zwei, drei, vier,
Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig dich nicht
Versteck dich
Augen auf, ich komme! (versteck dich)
Augen auf, ich komme! (versteck dich)
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig' dich nicht!
Eins, zwei, drei, vier, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Augen auf, ich - komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig dich nicht
Versteck dich
Augen auf, ich komme! (versteck dich)
Augen auf, ich komme! (versteck dich)
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig' dich nicht!
Alles muss versteckt sein
Wieder lieg' ich auf der Lauer
Denn wir spielen unser Spiel
Wieder wart' ich an der Mauer
Wieder steh' ich kurz vorm Ziel
Und ich höre deinen Atem
Und ich rieche deine Angst
Ich kann nicht mehr länger warten
Denn ich weiß, was du verlangst
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eins, zwei, drei, vier,
Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig dich nicht
Ständig ruf' ich deinen Namen
Ständig such' ich dein Gesicht
Wenn ich dich dann endlich habe
Spielen wir Wahrheit oder Pflicht
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eins, zwei, drei, vier,
Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig dich nicht
Versteck dich
Augen auf, ich komme! (versteck dich)
Augen auf, ich komme! (versteck dich)
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig' dich nicht!
Eins, zwei, drei, vier, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Eckstein, Eckstein
Alles muss versteckt sein
Augen auf, ich - komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Augen auf, ich komme!
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig dich nicht
Versteck dich
Augen auf, ich komme! (versteck dich)
Augen auf, ich komme! (versteck dich)
Aufgepasst, ich komme!
Zeig' dich nicht!
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Great version of a great song,
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I heard, that the song is about a story, happening in France. There were children who killed grown-up people just for fun. In the music-video you can see children faces changing into monster faces and that shows the souls dark side ofe the children.
Sorry for my bad englis...I'm learning in school =D I'm german
hat das lied irgendeine tiefere bedeutung? ich erkenne keine :-/
also, wenn du in dem song keine bedeutung siehst, bist du auf dieser site falsch. der song ist so mehrdeutig!
The beat of this song is awesome, I love the little kid singing.
What's the cornerstone thing though? Seems like there's another meaning behind that. Or is Eckstein just a convenient rhyme?
i guess it's about an ambivalent relationship between two people. he wants to find her, probably he feels like dying without her: "Ständig ruf ich deinen namen Ständig such ich dein gesicht" (="I'm always calling your name I'm always looking for your face") but at the same time he wants to harm her (revenge?): "Wenn ich dich dann endlich habe Spielen wir wahrheit oder pflicht" (="When I finally have you We'll play truth or dare ") (but the lyrics don't show if it's about a woman. i guess it's basically about the feelings that you have when you like an trust someone and then he/she does something bad to you. then you have very ambivalent feelings about revenge.)
I got the impression, combined with the music video, that it's more about a killer that hides in public. That, and I get the vibe of changelings off it in that respect as well, especially with the video and the "flashes" to what the kid's actually are which to me have the air of a glamour failure.
"Eckstein, eckstein, alles muss versteckt sein" is a nursery rhyme children sing when playing hide and seek. It's an idiom, that's why it translates funny. "Sta:ndig ruf ich deinen namen, Sta:ndig such ich dein gesicht" is what you do during a hide and seek game. Masterchiefaph pretty much has it, I believe.
I think, that this Song from Oomph is about a Guy, who is describing his Situation of abusing a Child. The Guy wants to play games like Hide and Seek and Truth or Dare with the child. He wants to abuse it, but dont want to hurt the child in a bad way. So he tries to put the abusive things he does into a playing and fun game. It's a simple way to influence the childish minds to get them to do, what you want them to do. He is addicted to the abuse, cause he cant hink about anything other.(Ständig ruf ich deinen Namen- Ständig such ich dein Gesicht) But he has to be very carefully about the things he does. ( Alles muss versteckt sein).Another hint, that he wants to "play" is the Rhyme of the Game (Echstein,Eckstein) He dont want to get caught. Cause he knows, that its the worst thing of all, what he is doing.
But the Kids arent so dumb. They know everything. So they're planning to take revenge. Thats why the Childs Along the Video being portraited in Scenes, as
Monsters
(The Scene, where the Child got a Knife) They know, what is going one and communicate without words under them. Because of the things which are going on, hey cant even trust any othplace er grown up anymore (The scene, where the parents place the cake on the table. The one kid wants to eat, but looks the other kid, who shakes his head. After that he puts the fork down.) In the end, tha band and Dero Goi are covered in an plastic foil. Cause the rest of the world shouldnt see things like that. Or even dont want to see thing like this. They close their eyes before it and ignore things Like abusive.IT IS REAL. DO SOMETHING. JUST DONT CLOSE YOUR EYES.