"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.
Here I stand (here I stand)
Look around around around around around
But you won't see me (but you won't see me)
Now I'm here (now I'm here)
Now I'm there (now I'm there)
I'm just a
Just a new man
Yes you made me live again, wow
A baby I was when you took my hand
And the light of the night burned bright
The people all stared didn't understand
But you knew my name on sight
Ooh whatever came of you and me
America's new bride to be, ooh, don't worry baby I'm safe and sound
Down in the dungeon just peaches 'n' me
Don't I love her so
Yes you made me live again, yeah
Yeah, ooh, a thin moon me in a smoke-screen sky
Where the beams of your lovelight chase
Don't move, don't speak, don't feel no pain
With the rain running down my face
Your matches still light up the sky
And many a tear lives on in my eye
Down in the city just Hoople 'n' me
Don't I love him so
Ooh, don't I love him so
Whatever comes of you and me
I love to leave my memory with you
Now I'm here (now I'm here)
Think I'll stay around around around around around around
Down in the city justa you 'n' me (down in the city justa you 'n' me)
Don't I love you so
Go, go, go, little Queenie
Look around around around around around
But you won't see me (but you won't see me)
Now I'm here (now I'm here)
Now I'm there (now I'm there)
I'm just a
Just a new man
Yes you made me live again, wow
A baby I was when you took my hand
And the light of the night burned bright
The people all stared didn't understand
But you knew my name on sight
Ooh whatever came of you and me
America's new bride to be, ooh, don't worry baby I'm safe and sound
Down in the dungeon just peaches 'n' me
Don't I love her so
Yes you made me live again, yeah
Yeah, ooh, a thin moon me in a smoke-screen sky
Where the beams of your lovelight chase
Don't move, don't speak, don't feel no pain
With the rain running down my face
Your matches still light up the sky
And many a tear lives on in my eye
Down in the city just Hoople 'n' me
Don't I love him so
Ooh, don't I love him so
Whatever comes of you and me
I love to leave my memory with you
Now I'm here (now I'm here)
Think I'll stay around around around around around around
Down in the city justa you 'n' me (down in the city justa you 'n' me)
Don't I love you so
Go, go, go, little Queenie
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Brian May has unraveled the song many times before. The song is about his experiences during their first visit to the US when they were supporting Mott The Hoople. He apparently met a girl named "Peaches" at a club called Dungeon. You can find the story on Brian May's website (if it's still online)
i always thought 'peaches' referred to princess peaches in mario, who was always kidnapped and trapped in the dungeons with bowser
It's actually Princess Peach, and she was not introduced until 1985, and this album was released in 1974.
@karrado +1 for being hilarious
Peaches is the elegant and captivating Debra Vidacovich, wife of famous jazz drummer Johnny Vidacovich. The Dungeon is a rock and roll bar on Toulouse St, near Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the 70's, it was a private key club that attracted everyone from Led Zeppelin to rowdy bikers.
These lyrics are just plain WEIRD
Also who are 'Peaches' and 'Hoople'? I might just be ignorant but I dunno.
Listening to this after "Lilly of the Valley", it makes perfect sense. "Now I'm Here" is their progression to more hardcore rock and a departure from the fantasy stuff from their earlier albums. "Stone Cold Crazy" comes right after this.
The truth about Peaches
Excuse me. It's Deborah, not Debra. My bad.
I like it. :) You feel a man transformed.
Peaches was a record store in the 80s. His hairdresser wore a T-shirt depicting the logo ‘Peaches Records and Tapes’ across the front. Freddy would make up nicknames off the top of his head for people. Maybe in his quick writing of the song he referenced his hairdressers shirt and the many times backstage he would do his hair.
@Cinbar autocorrected. Should read ‘Freddie.’ And I meant to write ‘in Brian’s writing of the song...’ yeesh! you’d think they’d allow an edit feature.