"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.
Darling you never know
It started years ago
When you're less than kind of done
An adolescent singin' out real loud
Some wild English tune:
"Sha-la-la-la"
Sha la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
We'll never talk it out this time
You'll learn from all of us
When your time's up
How it all began
Seriously dumb
When you're less than kind of certain
An adolescent calling out real loud
It's what singers do
Sing sha la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
We'll never talk it out this time
You'll learn from all of us
When your time's up
Bet your life on a cruise ship
Bartending crucial lies
We're destined, wise and we socialize
Bourgeois, why would you care for more?
They give you almost everything
You believe almost anything
Bourgeois, you're fire's a false alarm
They give you almost everything
You believed almost anything
Darling you never know
Darling you never know
When you're less than kind of done
Adolescence's looking at you now
Like foreign legions do
Sing sha la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
We'll never talk it out this time
You'll learn from all of us
When your time's up
You lost your mind on a cruise ship
Bartending crucial lies
We're destined, wise and we socialize
Bourgeois
Why would you care for more?
They gave you almost everything
You believed almost anything
Bourgeois
Your fire's a false alarm
They gave you almost everything
You believed almost anything
Bourgeois
Why would you care for more?
They gave you almost everything
You believed almost anything
Bourgeois
Your fire's a false alarm
They gave you almost everything
You believed almost anything
It started years ago
When you're less than kind of done
An adolescent singin' out real loud
Some wild English tune:
"Sha-la-la-la"
Sha la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
We'll never talk it out this time
You'll learn from all of us
When your time's up
How it all began
Seriously dumb
When you're less than kind of certain
An adolescent calling out real loud
It's what singers do
Sing sha la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
We'll never talk it out this time
You'll learn from all of us
When your time's up
Bet your life on a cruise ship
Bartending crucial lies
We're destined, wise and we socialize
Bourgeois, why would you care for more?
They give you almost everything
You believe almost anything
Bourgeois, you're fire's a false alarm
They give you almost everything
You believed almost anything
Darling you never know
Darling you never know
When you're less than kind of done
Adolescence's looking at you now
Like foreign legions do
Sing sha la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
We'll never talk it out this time
You'll learn from all of us
When your time's up
You lost your mind on a cruise ship
Bartending crucial lies
We're destined, wise and we socialize
Bourgeois
Why would you care for more?
They gave you almost everything
You believed almost anything
Bourgeois
Your fire's a false alarm
They gave you almost everything
You believed almost anything
Bourgeois
Why would you care for more?
They gave you almost everything
You believed almost anything
Bourgeois
Your fire's a false alarm
They gave you almost everything
You believed almost anything
Lyrics submitted by ReclusiveRaider, edited by piant
Bourgeois Lyrics as written by Frederic Moulin Christian Mazzalai
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Well first and foremost a "Bourgeois" according to the dictionary, lol, is a person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class, knowing this, the meaning of this song is pretty straightforward.
It speaks of a person, a youth most notably, who lives in this world of comfort being in the middle class has it's perks but of course being in this state also brings one to becoming blind and disinterested of what is happening outside this world pretty much losing ones freedom in the process. A mind that is contented couldn't grow. It could also speak of a person who is never satisfied even when one already has pretty much everything that others could only dream of hence the line:
"Bourgeois Why would you care for more? They gave you almost everything"
But it also speaks of the person becoming blind because of the wealth that one has and the conformity it brings.
"You believed almost anything"
They can't have everything just almost, so that the person will be contented but not enough to be able to think for themselves.
well that was my two cents. lol I really don't know what I'm talking about here. :p
@Emzee4life I agree with your opinion on this phoenix track, one of my most liked, It spells out for me, the devide of wealth between the have and have not,s economically in our capitalist world... I am an abstract expressionist painter and this is the equivalent in song...