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.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
It's knocking off
My diamond wig
Knocking me down
Into the platinum ground
Woke up in a beautiful dream
Alone
Alone
I got hit by a Mink Car
Hit by a Mink Car
Driven by a Guitar
And the silver Chauffeur says
That it's all in your head
When you're 24 carrot dead
Dead
In my dream
She is reaching past my hollow form
And her smile's
An open sign in an abandoned store
I got hit by a Mink Car
Hit by a Mink Car
Driven by a Guitar
And the silver Chauffeurs says
That it's all in your head
When you're 24 carrot dead
Dead
Dead
My diamond wig
Knocking me down
Into the platinum ground
Woke up in a beautiful dream
Alone
Alone
I got hit by a Mink Car
Hit by a Mink Car
Driven by a Guitar
And the silver Chauffeur says
That it's all in your head
When you're 24 carrot dead
Dead
In my dream
She is reaching past my hollow form
And her smile's
An open sign in an abandoned store
I got hit by a Mink Car
Hit by a Mink Car
Driven by a Guitar
And the silver Chauffeurs says
That it's all in your head
When you're 24 carrot dead
Dead
Dead
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This song is an obvious spoof of the Burt Bacharach's musical style... and they nailed it, right down to the flugel-horn solo. The very idea of a car covered in mink fur fits very nicely into the excesses of the era.
Of course, it wouldn't be TMBG without the song really being a depressing song about death and abandonment hidden by a sugary-sweet melody. :)
"And her smile's an open sign on an abandoned store" is one of my favorite lyrics ever. What a beautiful and yet painful metaphor.
ndo and Lombardi are on the right track I think. It's about the fear that too much success can kill an artists integrity. The "Mink Car" is money, success and fame. It's "driven by a guitar" because the singer's music career is what has brought all that success to him. But he's afraid that all of that success has killed his artistic integrity. He's afraid that his music has become a "hollow form".
I don't get this song...I like it, but I don't understand... I understand that all the adjectives are expensive items, normally bought for women (ie Mink, Silver, Diamond), but why is a guitar driving the car?
The "car" is a guitar case that hits the speaker in the head (and kills him?)
The music in this song is better than the lyrics, IMO. But that doesnt mean the lyrics suck, it only means the music is well orchestrated.
Do you really wanna know what i think? I think the hidden message within this song definitely has something to do with governement/some other sort of monarchy... All the expensive stuff in the song, of course, could only be afforded by such a godly figure, and when the singer dies, that's symbolic of how much these gods hate us... I gotta stop buyin this stuff from Johnny. Oogh....
It's about being rich and successful...and dead inside.
I agree with ndo. I think being "hit by a mink car" is sort of a metaphor for selling out.... The song is all about being rich and successful and how much it sucks.
I like the phrase "24-carat dead." Also "open sign on an abandoned store."