"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.
Oh! baron Saturday
Sorrow, he'll show you games to play
He bends his mouth up to your ear
The words won't disappear
He'll take your eyes out for a ride
Through an eyeglass of tears it's not clear.
Oh! baron Saturday
White visions black, mister malady
'Neath a sky of milk
You're drinking silk
You've fast the runcible spoon
On satin plates
Young maidens wait
To be devoured in the glare of the moon.
Except for baron Saturday
Your life was cool
Good senses rule
Throw your life away.
Oh! baron Saturday
Let him steal your mind away
He'll show you the grave
Of someone who was saved
From living their life in a year
He'll show you the grave.
Of someone who was saved
From taking his life with a knife.
Except for baron Saturday
Your life was cool
Good senses rule
Throw your life away.
Sorrow, he'll show you games to play
He bends his mouth up to your ear
The words won't disappear
He'll take your eyes out for a ride
Through an eyeglass of tears it's not clear.
Oh! baron Saturday
White visions black, mister malady
'Neath a sky of milk
You're drinking silk
You've fast the runcible spoon
On satin plates
Young maidens wait
To be devoured in the glare of the moon.
Except for baron Saturday
Your life was cool
Good senses rule
Throw your life away.
Oh! baron Saturday
Let him steal your mind away
He'll show you the grave
Of someone who was saved
From living their life in a year
He'll show you the grave.
Of someone who was saved
From taking his life with a knife.
Except for baron Saturday
Your life was cool
Good senses rule
Throw your life away.
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same here, heard that the singer of kasabian recommended this song to noel. Absolutely love it. But does anybody know what it's about and what the entire album is about? im told it's the first rock opera/concept album ever.
The song is about Baron Samedi (or Baron Saturday in englisg) He is Lao in the voodoo religion.
Yeah, to understand this song, you'll have to listen to the whole album. It's the story of a guy who loves this girl, but when she dies he gets really depressed and cuts himself off from the world. Sort of similar to Pink Floyds "The Wall." This song in particular is sort of a metaphorical way of thinking for the main character. Baron Saturday comes and helps him keep from suicide (He'll show you the grave Of someone who was saved From living their life in a year He'll show you a grave Of someone who was saved From taking his life with a knife).
But this only keeps him alive and he is unable to achieve happiness again.
@smroo that's not exactly true and Baron Saturday does the opposite of that. He makes him remember and realize all the horrible things that have happened to him throughout his life.
Nobody confused this for the Beatles the first time they heard it?