"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.
Parasites will be excited when you're dead
Eyes bulging, ants are in your head and
All your thoughts, yeah, they rot
God and Satan, they gamble when you're dead
Beams of light, one's bright, the other's burning instead
And all your thoughts, yeah, they rot
It was hot and time was sticking to my skin
To all the punch lines of the jokes they won't let us in on
And all your thoughts, yeah, they rot
Eyes bulging, ants are in your head and
All your thoughts, yeah, they rot
God and Satan, they gamble when you're dead
Beams of light, one's bright, the other's burning instead
And all your thoughts, yeah, they rot
It was hot and time was sticking to my skin
To all the punch lines of the jokes they won't let us in on
And all your thoughts, yeah, they rot
Lyrics submitted by plosion
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it should be beams of light ones sprite the others bourbon instead
"oh ok" is right "cheesenugget" you're a dipshit. dont put speak your mind unless you know what the hell you're talking about.
Where did this come from?
idk, i'm wandering the same. i even just youtubed it and its not on there. hmmmmmm......
this is a demo of an ugly casanova song that modest mouse are doiung
correct me if i am wrong but isn't that a kazoo? you can dowwnload it here: modestmouselive.zeromethos.com/ click the one second to the bottom
yeah, this is an Ugly Cassanova song... the real lyrics are (as printed in the cd insert): The parasites are excited when you're dead, eyes bulging, entering your head. And all your thoughts. They rot. God and satan they gamble when you're dead. Beams of light, one sprite the bourbon instead. And all your thoughts. They rot. It was hot and time was sticking to my skin. We're all the punch line to a joke that they won't let us in on. And all your thoughts. They rot.
uh, isaac wrote this song in 1996, before ugly casanova was a twinkle in his eye.
they first played it at the '96 dub narcotics session.
"uh, isaac wrote this song in 1996, before ugly casanova was a twinkle in his eye." - Firstly, how the hell would you know when the idea of Ugly Casnova became a thought in I. Brock's head? Secondly, the studio recorded version of this track was done at the Dub Narcotic Studios in Olympia, WA in 1993, not '96. So, cheers...
yes i effed up but my point remains
wrong lyrics
it's NOT a modest mouse song anyway
it's ugly cassanova and I think it's called "parasites"
it is a modest mouse song and I think he wrote it way before 96. go to that web site its there. song is my favorite on the ugly casanova record but it was also a modest mouse song. cock suckers.