"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.
No fame
All there is
All there was
On the second lady
Canâ??t take a cent
Take a cut of that
Kind of ran
Iâ??ll stand kind of bent
Kind of pushed
On that heavy land
Iâ??ll stand for the sake of my friends
I will see him there
Down
Down
Count me down
Down
Down boy
Down
Count me down
Down
Down boy
Down
Down
Down
Count me down
Down boy
The same
Not begin
Not give up
In a better way
Again
Kept the stain
Off his bed
Not to split them off
Iâ??ll stand for the sake of my friends
I will see them there
Well I will see them there
No fame
All there is
All there was
On the second lady
Canâ??t take a cent
Take a cut of that
Kind of ran
Iâ??ll stand kind of bent
Kind of pushed
On that heavy land
Iâ??ll stand for the sake of my friends
I will see him there
Down
Down
Count me down
Down
Down boy
Down
Count me down
Down
Down boy
Down
Down
Down
Count me down
Down boy
The same
Not begin
Not give up
In a better way
Again lost the stain
Off his bed
Not to split them off
Iâ??ll stand for the sake of my friend
I will see him there
Well I will see him there
All there is
All there was
On the second lady
Canâ??t take a cent
Take a cut of that
Kind of ran
Iâ??ll stand kind of bent
Kind of pushed
On that heavy land
Iâ??ll stand for the sake of my friends
I will see him there
Down
Down
Count me down
Down
Down boy
Down
Count me down
Down
Down boy
Down
Down
Down
Count me down
Down boy
The same
Not begin
Not give up
In a better way
Again
Kept the stain
Off his bed
Not to split them off
Iâ??ll stand for the sake of my friends
I will see them there
Well I will see them there
No fame
All there is
All there was
On the second lady
Canâ??t take a cent
Take a cut of that
Kind of ran
Iâ??ll stand kind of bent
Kind of pushed
On that heavy land
Iâ??ll stand for the sake of my friends
I will see him there
Down
Down
Count me down
Down
Down boy
Down
Count me down
Down
Down boy
Down
Down
Down
Count me down
Down boy
The same
Not begin
Not give up
In a better way
Again lost the stain
Off his bed
Not to split them off
Iâ??ll stand for the sake of my friend
I will see him there
Well I will see him there
Lyrics submitted by scream&shake, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Down Boy Lyrics as written by Karen Lee Orzolek Brian Chase
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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i think this song is about a girl whos fooling around with a friends boyfriend and she has to hang out with both of them and hes kindof all over her and shes telling him to back off hence 'down boy'
I’ll stand kind of pushed Kind of bent On this heavy land I’ll stand for the sake of my friends I will see him there
shes feeling guilty maybe
Again Wash the stain Off his bed Not to split 'em up
she seems to be talking about hiding the evidence, washing the sheets because she doesnt want to get caught.
i think it's about facing an old lover.
I think the first verse is about maaaaaybe living in someone elses shadow, that there was never realy anything there. She kind of ran away from stuff, feeling pushed. Standing bent, feeling awkward? With stuff just weighing her down. But she'll stand for the sake of her friends, she'll do it FOR her friends.
The whole 'down boy down' bit makes me think about a dog, someone telling it to stop jumping up and annoying you. Just to sit, stay and leave you alone. Perhaps someone is annoying her, and not listening.. like an animal does. But then the 'count me down' bit confuses me. Like counting her in on something, she's guna do it. whatever it is :s
is it really about cheating everyone? it's too painful to be about watching someone else cheat. it's her, she's hurting and it's not her cheating, because i don't know if she ever even got there. there is some real submission here it's a girl stuck fighting her own pain, her own selfish notions to just keep it together for everyone else, although she mentions friends and says 'not to split them up'
the count me down, is because everyone does, no matter what, she is just- exhausted there isn't really any way for her to express herself anymore, so she's just done. that's the repetion, it's imposrtant that they didn't do rhyming couplets or anything. just 'down' the second lady- it's the lady that was never quite there. there is someone else that she can't ever be. so she is just beneath, never good enough the heavy land is everything everything drags her down. no one knows, the 'pushed and bent' it's like people don't get her posture, so it's a metaphor for her poor mind. she just smiles in front of her friends. doesn't want to cause trouble or anything... the 'stain' is the most powerful metaphor i think. yeah pretty bleak.
i'm replying to myself. the very first lines make it totally apparent that she is the 'second woman' and that she gets nothing for it.<br /> just the dirty sheets that she refers to later.<br /> i was wrong<br /> but i still think the point in this song is anguish
Why the hell are there no comments of this song?? It's one of their best songs up to now does anyone knows if there's a recorded version? cause I have it in the yyy's dvd
Yes there's a recorded version!!<br /> It's in their Is Is ep!
love it love it love it. so hot
Zerovermars
its on "Isis" (2007) EP
yep coming soon, i really like this song. don't really know what iot means though.
Love love love this
This is becoming my new favorite YYY's song its fucking nuts! The whole EP is nuts! you all must must buy it! im still tryin to figure out the meaning of this. But the guitar riff is insane!