"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.
Hot lava
Big Monkey flow
Chokin' on a color
Floating down like a rain ("Oh yeah")
Hot lava
Cool down
Big travel every town
Roll it over with a ball and chain
Hot lava
On the always
Make ready to burn
What the hell is in your
Lost and your found
Got lotta those time
Some owner lost
He wants nothin' but the kick underground
"(Be Healed, Be healed!)"
Hot lava, lava
"(Be Healed Be healed!)"
Big kicka mule
Dipped in hot cotton
Make water like candy
And a fever like mine
Big boiler
Make rotten grey matter
not spoiled like the child who pops them two at a time
"Be healed!"
Hot lava, lava
"Be Healed, Be Healed!"
Hot lava
Hot lava
Big Monkey flow
Chokin' on a color
Floating down like a rain ("Oh yeah")
Hot lava
Cool down
Big travel every town
Roll it over with a ball and chain
Hot lava
On the always
Make ready to burn
What the hell is in your
Lost and your found
Got lotta those time
Some owner lost
He wants nothin' but the kick underground
"(Be Healed, Be healed!)"
Hot lava, lava
"(Be Healed Be healed!)"
Big kicka mule
Dipped in hot cotton
Make water like candy
And a fever like mine
Big boiler
Make rotten grey matter
not spoiled like the child who pops them two at a time
"Be healed!"
Hot lava, lava
"Be Healed, Be Healed!"
Hot lava
Hot lava
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Lava Lyrics as written by Alien Jourgensen Al Jourgensen
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Drug Abuse and or Self destruction? or Volcanoes .... good song
Awesome, powerful song. A few corrections;
First lyrics are "Hot lava, Come Down, Big Monkey Flow" And another is that he says "Big kicka mule dipped in black cotton" not hot cotton.
Anyway, in my opinion the song is no question about drugs... The title is perfect. In nature, Lava is awe inspiring to witness first hand, a rush of sorts (not unlike the hot rush from taking certain drugs). But once lava gets out of hand, it can be quite destructive. Also, as lava cools, it hardens and more and more lava and rock build up on top of it, representing addiction. Each verse represents a different drug. The first is alcohol, 2nd marijuana, 3rd coke, 4th heroin, and 5th is meth. After certain "gateway" drugs like alcohol and MJ, one just wants to get higher and higher, building up more and more of an addiction to harder and harder drugs (alluding to the lava build up once again)... Thats how i feel about the song anyway...
I may be wrong but its still a bada$$ song...
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Lava is about Heroin, certain parts of the lyrics seem to go through the whole terrible cycle.
starting with using, then coming down, "floating down like a rain". Then starting to get sick, and needing and searching to get some more. " hot Lava cool down big travel every town", with "roll it over with a Ball and Chain" meaning you're doing it with the monkey on your back.
"On the always make ready to burn What the hell is in your Lost and your found Got lotta those time Some owner lost He wants nothin' but the kick underground"
could be that you're at all times looking to rob and steal, no matter who or what, because nothing else matters except getting that next fix.
"Big kicka mule Dipped in hot cotton Make water like candy And a fever like mine Big boiler Make rotten grey matter not spoiled like the child who pops them two at a time"
This could be getting a hot shot, "big kicka mule", or doing too much " big boiler". But either way....eventually..... You're gonna get that permanent " kick underground".
And all the while you have the voice of Heroin, or Satan...or both, gleefully telling you that with the "Hot Lava", you will indeed " BE HEALED!!!!".
whatever its meaning is, it's another phenomenal song from what I consider their best album, "Filth Pig".
@DiamondDBagDarrell <br /> <br /> Just re-read this and missed a couple:<br /> <br /> Hot lava <br /> Big Monkey flow<br /> Chokin' on a color<br /> <br /> Big monkey flow is the brown in the needle, Chokin’ on a color is the blood (red) from vein as you pull syringe.<br /> <br /> Hot lava<br /> Cool down<br /> Big travel every town<br /> Roll it over with a ball and chain<br /> <br /> Cool down is running out, big travel is going wherever you gotta to get fixed, roll it over is using with your partner.<br /> <br /> the devil put opiate on the earth <br /> God put Marijuana on the earth<br />