"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.
When I think that I'm over you
I'm overpowered
Your data, my data
The chromosomes match
Exact as in matter
A matter of fact
These amaranth feelings
A cognitive state
Need the love object
To reciprocate
When I think that I'm over you
I'm overpowered
It's long overdue
I'm overpowered
When I think that I'm over you
I'm overpowered
It's long overdue
But I'm overpowered
As science struggles on
To try to explain
Oxy-toxins flowing
Ever into my brain
As science struggles on
To try to explain
Oxy-toxins flowing
Ever into my brain
A chemical reason
If reason's your game
A chemical needing
Is there in the brain
With pre-programmed meanings
Like a little more pep
Alien feelings
We have to accept
When I think that I'm over you
I'm overpowered
It's long overdue
I'm overpowered
When I think that I'm over you
I'm overpowered
It's long overdue
I'm overpowered
As science struggles on
To try to explain
Oxy-toxins flowing
Ever into my brain
As science struggles on
To try to explain
Oxy-toxins flowing
Ever into my brain
I'm overpowered
I'm overpowered
Your data, my data
The chromosomes match
Exact as in matter
A matter of fact
These amaranth feelings
A cognitive state
Need the love object
To reciprocate
When I think that I'm over you
I'm overpowered
It's long overdue
I'm overpowered
When I think that I'm over you
I'm overpowered
It's long overdue
But I'm overpowered
As science struggles on
To try to explain
Oxy-toxins flowing
Ever into my brain
As science struggles on
To try to explain
Oxy-toxins flowing
Ever into my brain
A chemical reason
If reason's your game
A chemical needing
Is there in the brain
With pre-programmed meanings
Like a little more pep
Alien feelings
We have to accept
When I think that I'm over you
I'm overpowered
It's long overdue
I'm overpowered
When I think that I'm over you
I'm overpowered
It's long overdue
I'm overpowered
As science struggles on
To try to explain
Oxy-toxins flowing
Ever into my brain
As science struggles on
To try to explain
Oxy-toxins flowing
Ever into my brain
I'm overpowered
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This song makes reference to recent discovery that homosexuality is a genetic/scientific characteristic that humans are born with.
"A chemical reason If reason's your game A chemical needing Is there in the brain
With preprogrammed leanings Like a little more pep Alien feelings We have to accept"
the chorus makes reference (possibly) to a character in this story, who is only recently coming to terms with thier sexuality. perhaps a gay fling has occured (see verse 1) and the character is finding it hard to repress their homosexual feelings, hence being Overpowered by them.
thoughts?
Or it could be, y'know, a playful response to the claim that love is just a series of chemical reactions and electrical impulses in your brain.
further to my previous comment, i dare argue that: "your data my data the chromosomes match" would be another refrence to the chemistry of homosexuality, in that, "our gay chromosomes match"?? ahhhh... eh?
"when i think that i'm over you, i'm overpowered, it's long overdue, i'm overpowered". classic case of homosexual repression...
the references go on and on. so so clear to me what this song is about
also, i think its "with pre-programmed leanings"
I LOVE this song! It's on her Myspace, and I play it constantly! It's so funky, and electronic sounding!
Love is not just a chemical process, that what roisin wanted to say. And this theory that this song is about being gay is also interesting. Anyway, I just wanted to inform you that on one site lyrics go like this: ''You're dating my daughter The chromosomes match''
if the lyrics ARE "you're dating my daughter," then indeed they would have the same chromosomes if they are both female<br /> it kinda makes sense!
@Sava007 Those are the correct lyrics. I remember Roisin herself talking about them in an interview. All the other lyrics sites have got the lyrics wrong. <br /> Isn't that funny?
She's overpowered opposed to the illusion of being "in love" , a chemical needing, like the amfetamine substance (pep) does act in the brain. The illusion of real unconditional love...
I used to think that the character in the song had (inappropriate) feelings for a family member, like a cousin.
'Your data my data The chromosomes match'
She might have had a crush on that person when she was a child/teenager, and is surprised that she still feels the same way.
'When I think that I'm over you I'm overpowered'
Usually pheromones prevent us from falling in love with a family member, but it's not impossible.
'As science struggles on to try to explain Oxytoxins flowing ever into my brain'
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Roisin is a great vocalist. She is a chameleon so thats why shes so appelaing as an artist ot me.
This song is about a great relationship that really was meant to be according to the singer. And she just can't get over the fact that it is over. She just wants him back. She tries to explain it to herself (science) to get a grip on her feelings but her thoughts are swiped away every time by feelings of love. Or love-hurt actually. She wanted to have his babies (oxytocin), but she can't and so these feelings change in oxy-toxins, they hurt. It's long overdue, it became an obsession as in PTSS. Great 303. Can listen to this song forever.