"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.
I'm runnin' water through,
I'm runnin' water through my mind
I'm runnin' water through,
I'm runnin' water through my mind
Nothing but shops
and roads to go to roads in America
All's best forgot, and it's easy
when you try and remember everything you've come across
Can't turn nothin' off
for the fear that you'll be alone with your own thoughts
I'm runnin' water through,
I'm runnin' water through my mind
I'm runnin' water through,
I'm runnin' water through my mind
Nothing but shops
and roads to go to roads in America
All's best forgot,
and it's easy
when you try and remember everything that you've come across
Can't turn nothing off
for the fear that you'll be alone with your own thoughts
It was grey and there was no sunset
She said she liked it when you spoke in Spanish,
it reminds her of sex
It was grey and it felt flat
She said it leaves me feelin' flat
I said, "Why don't you speak in Spanish?
Why the fuck don't you speak in Spanish, then?"
I'm runnin' water through my mind
I'm runnin' water through,
I'm runnin' water through my mind
Nothing but shops
and roads to go to roads in America
All's best forgot, and it's easy
when you try and remember everything you've come across
Can't turn nothin' off
for the fear that you'll be alone with your own thoughts
I'm runnin' water through,
I'm runnin' water through my mind
I'm runnin' water through,
I'm runnin' water through my mind
Nothing but shops
and roads to go to roads in America
All's best forgot,
and it's easy
when you try and remember everything that you've come across
Can't turn nothing off
for the fear that you'll be alone with your own thoughts
It was grey and there was no sunset
She said she liked it when you spoke in Spanish,
it reminds her of sex
It was grey and it felt flat
She said it leaves me feelin' flat
I said, "Why don't you speak in Spanish?
Why the fuck don't you speak in Spanish, then?"
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"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
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Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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Isn't this called Magic Eye Singles #4? Good song, I like UC. :)
what cd is this on?
Magic Eye Singles was a record label that put this song out.
yeah this is a great song, i think its just about pleading ignorance to what is around you, or since the lyrics are by isaac brock it could be about anything
i think that it's about washing your mind clean of all the bad and awful feeling that you were feeling. then you realize that- now you just feel empty. and thats not good either. at the very end i think he's trying to help someone else with the same feeling of emptiness. it seems so easy. "why don't you just speak in spanish?"
"I'm runnin' water through my mind" -He wants to cleanse his mind of all the bullshit around him
"Nothing but shops and roads to go to roads in America All's best forgot, and it's easy when you try and remember everything you've come across" -Driving through America, he looks around and sees a lot of meaningless things, nothing worth remembering
"Can't turn nothin' off for the fear that you'll be alone with your own thoughts" -This is referring to technology, how we've always got to have the TV on or something going on, because we don't want to be left to think about things.
"It was grey and there was no sunset She said she liked it when you spoke in Spanish, it reminds her of sex It was grey and it felt flat She said it leaves me feelin' flat I said, 'Why don't you speak in Spanish? Why the fuck don't you speak in Spanish, then?' " -He's feeling irritable and bitter towards this girl, probably because he's trying to reflect and clear out his mind.