"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.
they want to socialize you
they want to purify you
they want to dignify, analyze and terrorize you
this is love and you can't make it
in a formula or shake me
i'm your monster i'm not like you
all your life is written for you
(look out they want what you know
steal a kid break a heart steal the show
peel back the skin see what's there
i'll never show you what's in here)
you're life is good for one thing
you're messing with what's sacred
they want to simplify your needs and likes
to sterilize you
this is love and you can't make it
in a formula or break me
i'm your monster i'm just like you
all my life is right before you
(don't need you to explain the pain
i can prove to you it's all fake
she's dead but she can stand she can walk
call the doctor miracle she can talk)
call the doctor
this is love and you can't break it
in a formula or make me
i'm no monster i'm just like you
all my life is right before me
(this is not really me at all
stunt girl daring twirls watch me fall
carbon copy same body different hearts
can't tell anymore the real parts)
they want to purify you
they want to dignify, analyze and terrorize you
this is love and you can't make it
in a formula or shake me
i'm your monster i'm not like you
all your life is written for you
(look out they want what you know
steal a kid break a heart steal the show
peel back the skin see what's there
i'll never show you what's in here)
you're life is good for one thing
you're messing with what's sacred
they want to simplify your needs and likes
to sterilize you
this is love and you can't make it
in a formula or break me
i'm your monster i'm just like you
all my life is right before you
(don't need you to explain the pain
i can prove to you it's all fake
she's dead but she can stand she can walk
call the doctor miracle she can talk)
call the doctor
this is love and you can't break it
in a formula or make me
i'm no monster i'm just like you
all my life is right before me
(this is not really me at all
stunt girl daring twirls watch me fall
carbon copy same body different hearts
can't tell anymore the real parts)
Lyrics submitted by OwnPersonalDemon, edited by Jestoon425
Call The Doctor Lyrics as written by Corin Lisa Tucker Carrie Rachel Brownstein
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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i think it's not just about not conforming.. it's about not conforming to gerneral expectations in love and conventional realationships.. in other words, it's about how you're treated when you're gay. "this is love and you can't make it in a formula" also lines like "your life is good for one thing/you're messing with what's sacred" sounds like it is about how women are told all they're good for is marriage and making homes and how gay marriage messes with the "sacred" aspects of marriage
Great song! I can appreciate the theme of them not conforming to societal standards. Also, there's the importance of looking inwards to discover one's self rather than allowing outside circumstances to mold you into some kind of artificial entity.
this is my favourite song. and i LOVE it so.
it makes me FEEL so much. and i could listen to it forever.
defintly about breaking out of the frame, and not conforming.
yep, I agree with StephNJ. Carrie Brownstein has such a powerful voice.
oops.. wtf, Corin Tucker** haha, my mistake.
Carrie does too tho... (it's her that screams "YOU ARE NOT ME" behind the title phrase)
really powerful, amazing song. Carrie's scream gives me chills every time....
It could also talk about what society expects people with disabilities when they fall in love and they're not their own guardians. People like this have guardians who say they can't see their boyfriends/girlfriends because they think they're too immature to handle things like sex. When there are staffs around, people like this can't get into sex mode because they think being naked is inappropriate and that no one wants to see nudity. This is not true. The lovers might want to see each other naked, and the staffs want to call the doctor because they think that the lovers are sickos.
I know it is not the ultimate meaning of it but I think there are slight Doctor Who references in it.