"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.
Right now, in the heat of my head
A flower blooms that was already dead
December's long gone
But these fields are forever frozen
And everything she said
Burns in the back of my head
Quick-sands of silver
Under dreams still glittering golden
All along I sing this song
It runs wild like a river inside
A voice cries out sharp words of doubt
If I take them to heart they make me bleed
Everyday my attention strays
Light like life it fades away
The clock it ticks
I turn my back
I feel the surface bulge and crack...
Tick tick tock tick tock tick tick tick tock tick tock tick
SLAM!
I want the change
I feel the change
Then post-metamorphosis where do the answers lie
One above and one below with lions locked inside
Then in silence turn the key
Setting all those lions free
Then I hold my head up higher and higher
Reach out tentacles to every desire
I faced the sea and it's time for a change
I am an octopus in flames
Sinking underwater
Sweating boiling getting hotter
Bubbles burst between my fingers
My breath is cracked and drawn
Sinking like an anvil
And facing several tentacles
My eyes go black and pop red cherries
The surface me is gone
Gone
I'm gone
Gone
I'm gone
I'm mesmerized - a servant to the light I can't deny it
With everyone standing here
I'm a million miles away
A change
A flower blooms that was already dead
December's long gone
But these fields are forever frozen
And everything she said
Burns in the back of my head
Quick-sands of silver
Under dreams still glittering golden
All along I sing this song
It runs wild like a river inside
A voice cries out sharp words of doubt
If I take them to heart they make me bleed
Everyday my attention strays
Light like life it fades away
The clock it ticks
I turn my back
I feel the surface bulge and crack...
Tick tick tock tick tock tick tick tick tock tick tock tick
SLAM!
I want the change
I feel the change
Then post-metamorphosis where do the answers lie
One above and one below with lions locked inside
Then in silence turn the key
Setting all those lions free
Then I hold my head up higher and higher
Reach out tentacles to every desire
I faced the sea and it's time for a change
I am an octopus in flames
Sinking underwater
Sweating boiling getting hotter
Bubbles burst between my fingers
My breath is cracked and drawn
Sinking like an anvil
And facing several tentacles
My eyes go black and pop red cherries
The surface me is gone
Gone
I'm gone
Gone
I'm gone
I'm mesmerized - a servant to the light I can't deny it
With everyone standing here
I'm a million miles away
A change
Lyrics submitted by postlapsaria
Octopus on Fire Lyrics as written by Buckley Arkenstone
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I like Seven Tentacles and Eight Flames more personally.
how come nobody's posted anything!? this is my second favoritest horse song. it's so awesome. especially the part where it stops the vocals for the delightful keyboard goodness leading to "Sinking underwater Sweating boiling getting hotter..... you know what i'm talking about!
Well.. i know what u're talking, i love this song too much, i rather the guitar part after "million miles away"... so explosive. Im playing this song for my kids also.. they love the lyrics.. ROCK ON!
Also, best song title ever.
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By the way, I know Manateen's keyboard isn't too complex, it's just perfect with the music.
My favorite song. Period. You fuck with this song and you fuck with me. I first heard the MIDI version, wich was great in and of itself, but it's just not the same. The guitar in it is amazing, especially the little riff during the "I'M GONE" part.
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