"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.
One night upon my motorcycle through the desert sped
And smashed my body so that all my friends thought I was dead
My sister held me close and whispered to my bleeding head
"You are the son of a motherfucker"
One, two, three, four
I shook all night and held her hand
Chocolate people, well, I'll be damned
Land of plenty, land of fun
To find out I'm Nimrod's son
Oh, bury me
Far away please
Bury me
Ha-ha
The joke has come upon me
In my motorcycle mirror, I think about the life I've led
And how my soul's been leaking out all the holes where I have bled
My image spoke to me, yes, to me it often said
"You are the son of incestuous union"
One, two, three
Now my head is clear, my roof has walls
My daughter's pure, my son is tall
Land of plenty, land of fun
To find out I'm Nimrod's son
Oh, bury me
Far away, please
Bury me
Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha
The joke has come upon me
And smashed my body so that all my friends thought I was dead
My sister held me close and whispered to my bleeding head
"You are the son of a motherfucker"
One, two, three, four
I shook all night and held her hand
Chocolate people, well, I'll be damned
Land of plenty, land of fun
To find out I'm Nimrod's son
Oh, bury me
Far away please
Bury me
Ha-ha
The joke has come upon me
In my motorcycle mirror, I think about the life I've led
And how my soul's been leaking out all the holes where I have bled
My image spoke to me, yes, to me it often said
"You are the son of incestuous union"
One, two, three
Now my head is clear, my roof has walls
My daughter's pure, my son is tall
Land of plenty, land of fun
To find out I'm Nimrod's son
Oh, bury me
Far away, please
Bury me
Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha
The joke has come upon me
Lyrics submitted by riffic, edited by DanVitaleRocks
Nimrod's Son Lyrics as written by Charles Thompson
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YOU ARE THE SON OF A MOTHER FUCKER. Haha...literally.
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@impact <br /> I get paid over 190$ per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing..<br /> :) AND GOOD LUCK.:)<br /> HERE====)> hmjobz.com
Jjoe, just because Frank Black wasn't the product of incestuous union doesn't mean the song's a joke.
It's like listening to "Motorway to Roswell" and thinking "oh Frank Black is an alien."
He is most likely writing from another person's perspective...such as Nimrod's son...Anyways, Nimrod was the founder of Babylon, and a great hunter.
Random fact of the day!
The whole reason "Nimrod" got it's negative connotation is because Elmer Fudd was called Nimrod (since he's a hunter) and since he's such an idiot people associated it with idiocy.
@Audaciousmoose Ha! I love how culture can twist the meaning of something so easily. I remember seeing that Bugs Bunny cartoon as a kid. We used Nimrod as an insult when people did stupid things.
@Audaciousmoose <br /> I get paid over 190$ per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing..<br /> :) AND GOOD LUCK.:)<br /> HERE====)> hmjobz.com
I'm pretty sure that his lyrics tend to stem far deeper than our interpretations. I realy don't think this song is just about t his little story he threw together about some dude whose mother is also his grandmother. I'm sure its biblical or mythilogical, and I'm pretty sure there's some crazy reason that he decided to sing about it.
@Bret LeBeau <br /> I get paid over 190$ per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing..<br /> :) AND GOOD LUCK.:)<br /> HERE====)> hmjobz.com
Incest is a common theme in early Pixies stuff and this song is probably influenced by "Odeipus". Both the motorcycle rider and Opedipus discover they are products and participants of incest.
The lyrics are pretty clear; the rider realizes that he has been damned since birth and his whole life is a joke. The "Ha-ha Ha-ha" at the end of the song isn't a happy laugh, but an insane and disturbing one.
Sad stuff. : - (
Good song though. The Holiday Song is the sequal to it, I guess.
@lactosefreeman No, not influenced by Oedipus, but by Nimrod, the great grandson of Noah, who’s wife diefied him after his death and claimed he was reincarnated as Nimrod (or Gilgamesh), their offspring, technically making marrying him to his own mother......like the rest of the bible, it’s always good for a chuckle.
@lactosefreeman <br /> I get paid over 190$ per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing..<br /> :) AND GOOD LUCK.:)<br /> HERE====)> hmjobz.com
live this was great, and they played the holiday song right after it. maybe the two are related, or that could be a complete coincidence
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Nimrod was the bigest enemy of Abraham in Bible. Frank was crazy about Book...
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It's a great song to get peoples attention at parties. Frank wasn't really the product of incestuous union surely? I think its all just a childish joke, though a good song.
@jjoe It’s a biblical reference.
@jjoe <br /> I get paid over 190$ per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing..<br /> :) AND GOOD LUCK.:)<br /> HERE====)> hmjobz.com
Nimrod is in Genesis: 10
Well, actually, I don't think The Holiday Song and Nimrod's Son have anything to do with eachother. Maybe the person in The Holiday Song finally hooked up with his sister and the result is the guy in Nimrod's song, but likely, the pixies songs about incest are probably not connected.
oh shit, the mother fucker wasnt an insult it must be real. shit never really thought bout that