"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.
Hey, what's the big idea?
Yo Mika
I said
Suckin' too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down (girl)
I said
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
I went walkin' with my mama one day
When she warned me what people say
Live your life until love is found
'Cause love's gonna get you down
Take a look at the girl next door
She's a player and a down right bore
Jesus loves her, she wants more
Oh bad girls get you down
Singing
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
Mama told me what I should know
Too much candy gonna rot your soul
If she loves you, let her go
'Cause love only gets you down
Take a look at a boy like me
Never stood on my own two feet
Now I'm blue, as I can be
Oh love couldn't get me down
Singing
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
I went walking with my mama one day
When she warned me what people say
Live your life until love is found
Or love's gonna get you down
Singing
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love (say love), say love (say love)
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love (say love), say love (say love)
Or love's gonna get you down
Mama told me what I should know
Too much candy gonna rot your soul
If she loves you, let her go
'Cause love only gets you down
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down (lollipop)
Yo Mika
I said
Suckin' too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down (girl)
I said
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
I went walkin' with my mama one day
When she warned me what people say
Live your life until love is found
'Cause love's gonna get you down
Take a look at the girl next door
She's a player and a down right bore
Jesus loves her, she wants more
Oh bad girls get you down
Singing
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
Mama told me what I should know
Too much candy gonna rot your soul
If she loves you, let her go
'Cause love only gets you down
Take a look at a boy like me
Never stood on my own two feet
Now I'm blue, as I can be
Oh love couldn't get me down
Singing
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love, say love
Or love's gonna get you down
I went walking with my mama one day
When she warned me what people say
Live your life until love is found
Or love's gonna get you down
Singing
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love (say love), say love (say love)
Or love's gonna get you down
Say love (say love), say love (say love)
Or love's gonna get you down
Mama told me what I should know
Too much candy gonna rot your soul
If she loves you, let her go
'Cause love only gets you down
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down
Say
Sucking too hard on your lollipop
Or love's gonna get you down (lollipop)
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I Find It Interesting. Sucking To hard On Your Lollipop... That Just Interests Me.. Now, I Think That Means That You Should Take Your Time Finishing Your Lollipop. The Lollipop Symbolizes Innocence. Basically, I Believe This Saying Is Talking About Taking Your "Sweet" Time With Falling In Love. Loves Gonna Get You Down. This Is In Direct Phrasing With Bad Girls Are Gonna Get You Down. One Might Put These Together And Think That These Two Lines Mean Overall Love Makes You Sad.
I Find This Very Ironic However. The Song Is Talking About Never Finding Love, And If You Do, Don't Love Back. The Song Has Sad Lyrics. However The Songs Rhythm And Beat Is In The Form Of Happy Music.
This Rarely Happens In Music.
It's Like Singing A Song About 9/11 To The Rhythm Of When The Saints Go Marchin' In.
Overall I Think This Song Is Appealing To Us Because It Reminds Us Of Our Innocence. The Ironic Lyrics And Beat Also "Tickles" Our Sensories. When Something Is Funny, It Is Usually Because The Opposite Of What Should Happens, Happens.
A Song With Sad Lyrics And A Happy Beat Means That Our Brain Interprets The Song As Being Funny.. And When Something Is Funny, It Makes Us Happy.
I agree with you completely, and i got confused in the same part you discuss the Irony. If you ever figure out that, please let me know.
Oh, I don't think it's so sad. I think it's saying take your time falling in love, "live your life until love is found, or love's gonna get you down". As in, be happy and don't force anything, live completely in and out of love, and enjoy being what you are instead of pushing too hard for something you don't need.
Dude, Mika has a ton of ecstatically happy music and suicide-sad lyrics. Get used to it.
This is why i'm amazed Bastille haven't done any covers of mika yet: an upbeat song with sad lyrics, perfect for bastille to make it eery and a little depressing if you actually concentrate on it instead of siniging along as you inevitably would