"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.
Bones, bones brittle little bones
It's not the milk you seek
It's the sun you need
And the sleek sleek skeleton I hold
Where are the hidden folds
Where's the meat that you eat
Total boy
Tells me stories
Sometimes they make me sorry
I need another
I need another
Sugar doughnut and muffin baby
This world is going crazy
I think I'm through listening to you
Bones bones brittle little bones
Its not the milk you see
Its just the sun you need
And the sleek sleek skeleton I hold
Where are the hidden folds
Where is the meat that you eat
Gonna make some plans
Wait and see
Turn it off
Turn me on
Open your eyes look around you
Fuck what you heard
You were lied to
Sweetheart
Sick body part
Sickheart
Sweet body part
Bones, bones brittle little bones
Its not the milk you seek
Its the sun you need
And the sleek sleek skeleton I hold
Where are the hidden folds
Where's the meat that you eat
It's not the milk you seek
It's the sun you need
And the sleek sleek skeleton I hold
Where are the hidden folds
Where's the meat that you eat
Total boy
Tells me stories
Sometimes they make me sorry
I need another
I need another
Sugar doughnut and muffin baby
This world is going crazy
I think I'm through listening to you
Bones bones brittle little bones
Its not the milk you see
Its just the sun you need
And the sleek sleek skeleton I hold
Where are the hidden folds
Where is the meat that you eat
Gonna make some plans
Wait and see
Turn it off
Turn me on
Open your eyes look around you
Fuck what you heard
You were lied to
Sweetheart
Sick body part
Sickheart
Sweet body part
Bones, bones brittle little bones
Its not the milk you seek
Its the sun you need
And the sleek sleek skeleton I hold
Where are the hidden folds
Where's the meat that you eat
Lyrics submitted by missteenwordpower
Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby Lyrics as written by Nicholas Shanahan Thorburn
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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"fuck what you heard you were lied to"
Damn right we were! Contrary to what most people believe, drinking milk doesn't make your bones stronger. In fact, it actually makes them weaker. The vitamin D that we get from sunlight is healthy for your bones.
maybe its about whitney houston and bobby brown?
@petietothecore I don't think it's an accident
@petietothecore I don't think it's an accident
maybe its about being skinny and being whitney and bobby and don't call me a skinny crack head biznach bobby... call me queen.
nice interpretation samanthasecretagent... Before I read that I was hearing the song as a guy who was sick of his skinny girlfriend. He prefered someone with a little booty (where's the folds" Noot only does she deprive herself of food, but she is vapid (double meaning for total void--her stomach and the girl's personality. Also, the kidneys are the most important organ in activating (beta-hydroxylating) vitamin D, sunlight only plays a minor role. I listen to this song while inserting hemodialysis catheters in patients without functioning kidneys. all of them require vitamin D supplementation with already activated vitamin D. Most of them don't hear the song because they are sedated while I work on them, but I hear the song and always smile when it comes on, thinking of ex girlfriends who were skinny. too much info? oh well
i really like it, but what does this song mean?
i'm pretty sure that it's about eating disorders and the pressure to be thin.
...this is a cover. I think. It's really a song by The Unicorns. Unless I've been misinformed.
etakorz...you're probably thinking of the song "jellybones" by the unicorns. but i thought it was odd to have so many references to bones since his former band's most popular song was also about bones.
Nooope. Not Jellybones. Uhm. If you look throught The Unicorns Lyrics index, it also lists a Don't Call me Whitney Bobby.
two of the members from Islands were in the unicorns, so everyone gets their songs mixed up. they opened for metric