"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.
What's got you so jumpy?
Why can't you sit still, yeah?
Like gasoline you want to pump me
And leave me when you get your fill, yeah
Every time I touch you honey you get hot
I want to make love you never stop
Come up for air you push me to the floor
What's been going on in that head of yours
Unskinny bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
Unskinny bop nothin' more to say
You look at me so funny
Love bite got you acting oh so strange
You got too many bees in your honey
Am I just another word in your page, yeah, yeah
Every time I touch you you get hot
I want to make love you never stop
Come up for air you push me to the floor
What's been going on in that head of yours
Unskinny bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
Unskinny bop nothin' more to say
You're sayin' my love won't do ya
That ain't love written on your face
Well honey I can see right through ya
Yeah whose ridin' who at the end of the race
What's right
What's wrong
What's left
What the hell is going on
Unskinny bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
(Up for air, pulled to the floor)
Unskinny bop
No good, no good
Unskinny bop, bop
All night n' day, do it
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
No good, no good, good, no good
Unskinny bop (oh ooh)
Unskinny bop
Why can't you sit still, yeah?
Like gasoline you want to pump me
And leave me when you get your fill, yeah
Every time I touch you honey you get hot
I want to make love you never stop
Come up for air you push me to the floor
What's been going on in that head of yours
Unskinny bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
Unskinny bop nothin' more to say
You look at me so funny
Love bite got you acting oh so strange
You got too many bees in your honey
Am I just another word in your page, yeah, yeah
Every time I touch you you get hot
I want to make love you never stop
Come up for air you push me to the floor
What's been going on in that head of yours
Unskinny bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
Unskinny bop nothin' more to say
You're sayin' my love won't do ya
That ain't love written on your face
Well honey I can see right through ya
Yeah whose ridin' who at the end of the race
What's right
What's wrong
What's left
What the hell is going on
Unskinny bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
(Up for air, pulled to the floor)
Unskinny bop
No good, no good
Unskinny bop, bop
All night n' day, do it
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
No good, no good, good, no good
Unskinny bop (oh ooh)
Unskinny bop
Lyrics submitted by magicnudiesuit
Unskinny Bop Lyrics as written by Bret Michaels Bobby Dall
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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FYI to all the younger music fans. If you were a guy in the 80s who actually liked Poison you would get your ass beat like a drum. If you wanna know all about Poison just look at their first album cover (and No it wasn't cool at the time).
True dat. :)
@BusterCornwell Hahaha, I always wondered as a little girl growing up in the 80's why men wanted to dress so androgynous in music. Lol. I never could get it. That's why I liked Guns n' Roses when they came out because they marked the end of that stuff.
Yeah an easy bassline, but the rhythm guitar in the verses is pretty sweet.
huh?why has noone commented this song rocks.
I dont know either this song is a great song
this song doesnt really have a meanin. poison were doing the music for it and there was a hot girl in the room. bret wanted to get her attention, if you know wat i mean, so he started singing sexual lyrics which later became unskinny bop. The title "Unskinny Bop" has no particular meaning, which guitarist C.C Deville later confessed. The phrase was used on the basis that it was phonetically suited to the music. The song was later played to producer, Fairbairn, who stated that although he did not know what an "unskinny bop" was, the phrase was perfect. I hope this helps you understand how this great song came to be perfection......
I remember hearing back in 1990 when this song was big that it was about getting it on with a large, insatiable woman. I can't remember who, but it came from a member of Poison, perhaps on MTV???
its about a fat chick who loves the cock. so she keeps getting on the dude singing
Is it true this song is about oral sex. Because someone told me it was.
In the song "Home (Bret's Story)" it makes reference to Unskinny Bop... Bret says... "Nick asks me what the hell unskinny bop means, it's slang for C.C. banging a prono queen "
since my dad knows bret i asked him toask bret what this song is about. i was shocked to find that the song is bout a girl jacking him off