"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.
You're like a seraphim,
You're good to the bone
The slightest mending could not finely hone
You would not make it if you were on your own,
And this is why I'll never leave you alone
You can't start from
Where I end
You can't start from
Where I end
You walked into my trap
And I let it spring
(follow me home)
Because someone should take you under his wing
(follow me home)
You felt the cleansing of my pain-killing sting
(follow me home)
Now if you need some more just give me a ring
You can't start from
Where I end
You can't start from
Where I end
Unite and take over create a supernova
Unite and take over create a supernova
Give it to me give it to me give it to me
(Give in to me)
You can start from
Where I am
You can start from
Where I am
Unite and take over create a supernova
Unite and take over create a supernova
Unite and take over now I´ve got you deep inside me
Unite and take over now I´ve got you deep inside my soul
You're good to the bone
The slightest mending could not finely hone
You would not make it if you were on your own,
And this is why I'll never leave you alone
You can't start from
Where I end
You can't start from
Where I end
You walked into my trap
And I let it spring
(follow me home)
Because someone should take you under his wing
(follow me home)
You felt the cleansing of my pain-killing sting
(follow me home)
Now if you need some more just give me a ring
You can't start from
Where I end
You can't start from
Where I end
Unite and take over create a supernova
Unite and take over create a supernova
Give it to me give it to me give it to me
(Give in to me)
You can start from
Where I am
You can start from
Where I am
Unite and take over create a supernova
Unite and take over create a supernova
Unite and take over now I´ve got you deep inside me
Unite and take over now I´ve got you deep inside my soul
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Am I the only one who listens to Oomph! ??
Some Ommph! is nice. This is one of the good ones.
Well, most people upload lyrics just to do something but I upload only lyrics of bands I like. So you're not the only one, I love Oomph! :)
Oomph! the best. =)).
Ehh, I'm not really sure what this song means...
Uhmm, from the sounds of it, I get a guy obsessing over some girl.
Love this song, especially since i actually understand this song. lol. Love the german but a song in english is nice every now and again. lol
Oomph are like an industrial version of Faith No More which is never a bad thing.
They made a video for this.
" Am I the only one who listens to Oomph! ?? "
No way Oomph is my 2nd favorite band behind Metallica.
Supernova, I think it is about a guy who strongly feels some girl and himself belong together.
I read the lyrics a couple times while listening to the song, and, uh, I think it's about sex, at least in part. He sees this chick as absolutely perfect and wants her to be with/a part of him. But this perfect image involves her being helpless, like a porcelain doll or something. "You could not make it on your own". It refers to his unwillingness to see her as an independent being "You can't start from where I end". But this is where the meaning doubles, I think "You can't start from where I end" and "unite" both refer to sex, and the supernova is climax...
I'm a massive Oomph! Fan and this is one of my favourite songs by them. I will tell you my interpretation of this song.
(You're like a seraphim, you're good to the bone. The slightest mending could not finely hone. You would not make it if you were on your own and this is why I'll never leave you alone.) This could be about someone who is considered to be bad who has met his opposite, someone who is seen as good and well behaved. Maybe a pessimist meeting an optimistic person? The pessimist saying you couldn't survive on your own due to their view that the world is a place which is there to make life a miserable place.
(You can't start from where I end. You can't start from where I end.) They are basically saying they are so deep within their thoughts and views that no one can change it.
(You walked into my trap and I let it spring because someone should take you under his wing. You felt the cleansing of my pain-killing sting. Now if you need some more just give me a ring.) Trap could refer to a relationship, that the two opposites entered into either a friendship or became lovers. Maybe something bad happened to the good person. The pessimist is saying he was right, it was refreshing to see his view point was right however it did hurt the other person. The ring bit explains itself, they will be a phone call away. The follow me home is a thought to take them where they are whether it thoughts or a physical place.
You can't start from where I end. You can't start from where I end. (Further on this could mean the optimistic, good person is changing their view on life but still the pessimist is saying they can't think that way as they been that way for a very long time.
(Unite and Take over. Create a supernova. Unite and Take over create a supernova.) In my opinion this means to join together, pessimist and optimist however you can't as there would be arguments about view points. A supernova is an explosion so I'm taking that as mean join together, share your views however an argument would occur.
(Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me. Give in to me.) This to me is coming to an end of the relationship and the pessimist is saying to give them the worst.
(You can start from where I am. You can start from where I am). Part of the argument, they can't be where they are as they are clinging to their old ways.
(Unite and Take over Create a supernova. Unite and Take over Create a supernova) This goes back to my point of an argument.
(Unite and take over. Now I´ve got you deep inside me. Unite and take over. Now I´ve got you deep inside my soul.) Either one of them has been touched by the other, their core values have made them think differently about their own view on life.
I am a pessimist, my other half is the opposite. Hence why I view the song as I do.