"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.
Yeah...
So much sound like dirt today
Turn on the radio and it make you thirst away
Like a dumb bitch lookin' for nerds today
Or like good food, dig in ya' purse to pay
Sometime it make me so sad
like the worst of days
This industry makin' cash while the earth decays
Then I seen a little black boy
with a shirt that say
Don't you miss the fucking
classics like purple rain
You need something to cool you off
Man, my beat like a bitch
because you and your car
It shine bright like the night and
the moon and the stars
And I wake up and make more by noon tomorrow
Now, the critics ask will we be dumbing it down
Says N.E.R.D. is not coming around
What, sit and watch who you summin the sound
If I catch you when I see you
I'm gunnin' it down Because
I am the laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
Milky way master
(Times [ x2 ] )
What did you expect, it's the reemergence
Loosin ya neck, shorty get to jerkin'
You rockin with the best, and that's for certain
It's almost like your ears are now virgin
Ready fresh, wet for insertion
It's like your first time with insurgen
Except you're screwed you're
locked, you're sippin syrup
Now mami, close your eyes
Like curtains
Look who coolin it off
We be tearin down show for the moon tomorrow
Stay in the future, what you think
you they can rule tomorrow
That's like Larry Bird came and
just schooled Jabaar
You should be happy, that
should be news to ya'll
Like a little boy hearin no school tomorrow
That's the point, ain't no
beatin or runnin around
Violate me when I see you, I'm gunnin it down
I am the laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
Milky way master
(Times [ x2 ] )
One more time, c'mon!
I am the laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
Milky way master
(Times [ x2 ] )
I am a product of flex
A product of clue
A product of Interscope
A product of you
A product of my parents, my little brother too
A product of cam
A product of ganoo
So the beat gotta be like stealth in dark
I mean, the beat gotta knock ya helmet off
Knock you crab ass niggas who's shells is soft
Show you're pussy and you only do well in talk
I kill pussy, kill beats, kill real word
I can't decide, am I Lucas or Spielberg
They pay a night to see me, a night to TV
cause I'm bright like the
finger that lights on E.T.
In a flash a sonny went down
Didn't want to see it but you confrontin' it now
Draw your mind in the sand til
you done in the ground
And if a nigga step across me
I'm gunnin' it down And tell em
I am the laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
Milky way master
(Times [ x2 ] )
So much sound like dirt today
Turn on the radio and it make you thirst away
Like a dumb bitch lookin' for nerds today
Or like good food, dig in ya' purse to pay
Sometime it make me so sad
like the worst of days
This industry makin' cash while the earth decays
Then I seen a little black boy
with a shirt that say
Don't you miss the fucking
classics like purple rain
You need something to cool you off
Man, my beat like a bitch
because you and your car
It shine bright like the night and
the moon and the stars
And I wake up and make more by noon tomorrow
Now, the critics ask will we be dumbing it down
Says N.E.R.D. is not coming around
What, sit and watch who you summin the sound
If I catch you when I see you
I'm gunnin' it down Because
I am the laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
Milky way master
(Times [ x2 ] )
What did you expect, it's the reemergence
Loosin ya neck, shorty get to jerkin'
You rockin with the best, and that's for certain
It's almost like your ears are now virgin
Ready fresh, wet for insertion
It's like your first time with insurgen
Except you're screwed you're
locked, you're sippin syrup
Now mami, close your eyes
Like curtains
Look who coolin it off
We be tearin down show for the moon tomorrow
Stay in the future, what you think
you they can rule tomorrow
That's like Larry Bird came and
just schooled Jabaar
You should be happy, that
should be news to ya'll
Like a little boy hearin no school tomorrow
That's the point, ain't no
beatin or runnin around
Violate me when I see you, I'm gunnin it down
I am the laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
Milky way master
(Times [ x2 ] )
One more time, c'mon!
I am the laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
Milky way master
(Times [ x2 ] )
I am a product of flex
A product of clue
A product of Interscope
A product of you
A product of my parents, my little brother too
A product of cam
A product of ganoo
So the beat gotta be like stealth in dark
I mean, the beat gotta knock ya helmet off
Knock you crab ass niggas who's shells is soft
Show you're pussy and you only do well in talk
I kill pussy, kill beats, kill real word
I can't decide, am I Lucas or Spielberg
They pay a night to see me, a night to TV
cause I'm bright like the
finger that lights on E.T.
In a flash a sonny went down
Didn't want to see it but you confrontin' it now
Draw your mind in the sand til
you done in the ground
And if a nigga step across me
I'm gunnin' it down And tell em
I am the laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
(The laser gun carryin')
The laser gun carryin
Milky way master
(Times [ x2 ] )
Lyrics submitted by angelbird9
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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No Surprises
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
i think this is just saying how cool they are, who they are, and that they can't be messed with