"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.
Miss America sits in the shower
She's plucking hours from the sky
Picks up the telephone, into another home
Don't ask me why
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
She's a well wisher and she wishes you well
Wish away, wish away
She no jellybean, she a Jemima ho ho
Wish away, wish away
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
Here is here and I am here, where are you?
Far away, far away
She no jellybean, she a Jemima ho ho
Wish away, wish away
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
She's plucking hours from the sky
Picks up the telephone, into another home
Don't ask me why
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
She's a well wisher and she wishes you well
Wish away, wish away
She no jellybean, she a Jemima ho ho
Wish away, wish away
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
Here is here and I am here, where are you?
Far away, far away
She no jellybean, she a Jemima ho ho
Wish away, wish away
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by tpfang56
Miss America Lyrics as written by David Rowntree Steven Alexander James
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Actually I didn't understand the meaning of this song at all....can someone explain it to me, please??
It always annoys me when people "it's so obvious I'm not going to bother explaining." Why bother posting, then?
If it's "obviously" about America, per the title, I don't get it. America, as a country, sits in the shower and uses other people's phones? Or is it a pun on Miss (unmarried woman) America and "[I] miss [being in] America"? Either way, it still doesn't make sense.
I have aboslutely no idea of the actual meaning of this song although I suspect it somehow might be anti-american, but that is mainly due to the trend of the rest of MLIR (I think they were gonna call it Blur vs America of something)
Could Albarn just be saying he likes English girls better? It sounds like a man who is living in close vicinity with an American girl, and her tendencies (dress, manner, language) don't seem as pure or feminine as those of the girls he knows. The song sounds like he's reassuring a girl back home that she need not worry because he has no interest in the girl he has to be near. That's just what it sounds like to me, though.
i can honestly say Blur is my favorite band, hands. down. anything Damon Albarn does.. just golden
Me neither. o_o
The Michael at the start of the song was Coxon shouting, he was pissed recording his parts while everyone else left him to go see a pulp gig and as they returned they walked in with their producer Mike Smith (I think thats his name) and he shouted Michael at him =)
To add to Mattio, I don't believe it was Coxon - I believe it was actually Dave who was drunk when they made this song. They came back and found him pissed up, sitting underneath a table, banging a chairleg against it, and yes, he screamed out Michael!.
This is why there are no drums on the song and in the record sleeve where the song's contributions are mentioned, Dave is credited with being in a local pub.
The song is about how LAbam prefers English girls- feminine women of substance, intellect and worth hanging around after a shag As opposed to the title Miss American- which mouths off about American girls as trite, trivial, vain, superficial and non-feminine. Yes, it is about men males open preference to European girls versus Americans. Why? Yanks are obnoxious, opinionated (with no intellect to support their opinion), spoilt, entitlement-issued, immature, superficial, vulgar quasi-females. No you didn't beat Britain- it was British red coats fighting mainly ex-British settlers. Nothing American about it- and now under your own idiot 2-party dictatorship "Democracy"- you have less "liberties" and higher taxes than under "tyrant" King George. Enjoy the wiretaps.
@SepticTanker someone’s got their knickers in a twist
this has got to be my 3rd favorite song from the album.....its obvious what hes talking about so im not gonna go there