"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.
We got road, we got time, so we're out of here
We got rows, we got rows as far as we can see
In the dust we can see your catastrophe
Shining dimly like a mud slick in the sun
Sparks fly from their eyes
Birds fly from their mouths
Echoing off this procession is a sound
Never to be found
With a tip of the hat we would exit here
Off you go with a pie on your face
Down the road we can see the electric chair
Who'll be the first? I don't know, it's a race
With a drop of the fly we should exit here
Off you go with the crumbs on your face
One-eyed clown in the road with electric hair
At his best he's a total disgrace
We got rows, we got rows as far as we can see
In the dust we can see your catastrophe
Shining dimly like a mud slick in the sun
Sparks fly from their eyes
Birds fly from their mouths
Echoing off this procession is a sound
Never to be found
With a tip of the hat we would exit here
Off you go with a pie on your face
Down the road we can see the electric chair
Who'll be the first? I don't know, it's a race
With a drop of the fly we should exit here
Off you go with the crumbs on your face
One-eyed clown in the road with electric hair
At his best he's a total disgrace
Lyrics submitted by ObscuredInDevotion
Never to Be Found Lyrics as written by Curtis Mathew Kirkwood
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I like this song a lot, except I have no clue what this song is about. The lyrics are very... Kirkwoodish though.
i'd always thought it was "like a mudsnake". i think mudslick is right though. it's got loads of snapshots, but from one couplet to the next i'm not sure it has much of a coherent meaning. fucking cool though. Maybe something to do with "let's go, and take what comes". There's also a vague death by electric chair theme.
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you people are all a bunch of frauds. go ahead and comment on the single off of too high to die (backwater) and the 3 or 4 songs nirvana covered. I hope you never listen to this fucking song in your miserable lives, because you're not even fucking worthy of it