"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.
"We're rollin..."
One more day to complete my service
One more hour to decay my nerves
Wondering how I'm gonna find a way
It's over
One more day to complete my service
One more time here to find my servant
One more day to find a way
It's over
She seen through me and mine
And I know a later time
We could make it with you
We're the same
Old age (x4)
One more day to complain, my servant
One more doubt here to find a servant
Wondering how I'm gonna find a way
It's over
Wondering how I'm here date my cover
One more doubt here to save my nerves
Wondering how I'm gonna find a way
It's over
She seen through me and mine
And I know a later time
We and we're you to you
Leave the soul
Old age
Just you need and read you free
Hmmm
And knew
You read
You flew
Ooo
Hmmmmm
One more day to complete my service
One more hour here to find my nerves
Someday I'm gonna find a way
It's over
One more doubt here to claim my supper
I can have anything you wanted
Wondering how I'm gonna find a way
It's over
He seemed to read minds
And I know we're out of time
Breathe away here with you
Dream the same on the dew
Breathe the same on her
Breathe to moan on a man
Breathe and shame on you
He's late
Old age
"...or we could fade out"
One more day to complete my service
One more hour to decay my nerves
Wondering how I'm gonna find a way
It's over
One more day to complete my service
One more time here to find my servant
One more day to find a way
It's over
She seen through me and mine
And I know a later time
We could make it with you
We're the same
Old age (x4)
One more day to complain, my servant
One more doubt here to find a servant
Wondering how I'm gonna find a way
It's over
Wondering how I'm here date my cover
One more doubt here to save my nerves
Wondering how I'm gonna find a way
It's over
She seen through me and mine
And I know a later time
We and we're you to you
Leave the soul
Old age
Just you need and read you free
Hmmm
And knew
You read
You flew
Ooo
Hmmmmm
One more day to complete my service
One more hour here to find my nerves
Someday I'm gonna find a way
It's over
One more doubt here to claim my supper
I can have anything you wanted
Wondering how I'm gonna find a way
It's over
He seemed to read minds
And I know we're out of time
Breathe away here with you
Dream the same on the dew
Breathe the same on her
Breathe to moan on a man
Breathe and shame on you
He's late
Old age
"...or we could fade out"
Lyrics submitted by cobainsprodigy
Old Age Lyrics as written by Kurt Cobain
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One of my favs. This is how I have always heard it...the are parts i just don't know what i hear
Am I afraid to find her Oh she's gone and I refrain you gone you go you ain't no more and oh the pain in me before And now like a baby being ignored oh I want to obey me feeds me power and need the grain Be silent bit and I will say you see empower me away And I and I hey
Verse: Keeping down due to one more stresses One more high and I'll free my servants Someday I will allow my way to something It's not hard to relieve my service Come inside of her inner circles Someday I walk behind away it's over
Chorus: She seems to read minds And I'm deaf dumb and blind Frame to frame my use She's the same.
Old Age
Verse 2: Some are gone and some are wanting some were kind and I feigned my service Someday I won't find my way to sober it's unfair he believes my servant One more hour and awake my servant Someday I will allow my way to something
Chorus 2: She seems to read minds when I'm deaf dumb and blind Face to Face in the mirror we survive
Old Age
Bridge: It's such a fantasy You're all free Come on higher way I'm begging see?
Verse 3: One more hour and I face my service Come on down to relieve my servant Someday I'll allow my way to nothing Second there I obey my service One more high and I won't need servants Someday I'll allow my way to something
Chorus 3: She seems to read minds and I'm deaf dumb and blind Way the frame I use Jesus Saves
Old Age
Jesus Saves
Old Age..
Amazing version of this BEATIFUL song! Congratulations cobainsprodigy for writing down the words,I personally would've never managed that(it's impossible to understand what the hell Cobain is murmuring-I personally believe he is simply trying to keep up with the music without paying any attention to what he is saying,at least at some parts he is obviously doing that).Anyways,I was taken aback when I realised he was singing in the end of the song "Jesus saves".I was under the impression that he was not a christian so I came up with this theory(based on my belief that he was not a christian-correct me if I'm wrong): "Old age" is the age when many people start believing in the "Lord Jesus Christ" so that they "shalt be saved".I think he is mocking the fact that a lot of people turn to religion when they reach the "Old age" because they are afraid of what is coming next -death,hell,anything.This is how I connect the line "Jesus saves" with the rest of the song(what is understandable of it anyways). I adore this song no matter what is the "true" meaning of it! The music is my favourite Nirvana music,so sad and yet so beatiful.
Rest in peace Kurt,you're alive through your music
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My favourite nirvana song, ever... I think his voice is great in this song, just kinda hard to understand. I can't find it anywhere though, I can only listen to it on youtube, kinda sucks. But still, my favourite nirvana song :)