"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.
He stood in line with the rest
And waited got his chance
To take his place behind the glass
And watch the ladies dance
It's the nature of things
He stepped into the darkened space
The air was thick and warm
He drops the coins in one by one
The scene unfolds before him
He stands looking eye to thigh
As she looks down from above
Only to be recognized
As his former love
It's the nature of things
And waited got his chance
To take his place behind the glass
And watch the ladies dance
It's the nature of things
He stepped into the darkened space
The air was thick and warm
He drops the coins in one by one
The scene unfolds before him
He stands looking eye to thigh
As she looks down from above
Only to be recognized
As his former love
It's the nature of things
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Yeah, I think everyone else pretty much has this covered. However, in case anyone didn't get the reason for the song title: The guy and his ex are separated by a pane of glass, so it's a "glass sandwich" so to speak.
In certain... "gentlemen's clubs" they have these booths where you go in, and you put in your money, and the shutter thing on the window will open, and you have your show.
This is pretty much just a funny story of total irony. THe guy goes in for a little show, and he pops in his money, only to see the girl he had dated before was now stripping for a living.
I think it's a bit deeper than that, y'allses. When he's saying "It's the nature of things," he saying what goes around comes around. Like maybe he broke up with her cause he loved some one else, or she broke up with him cause he was a cheater, and he went to a porno palace like he does every day, and his ex-girlfriend is the new skank.
Oh the irony! It beleive it means that the nature of things is for majorly fucked up things to happen in your life.
sounds like he puts some change in a nickelodeon...thats playing porn?
and its his ex-girlfriend it sounds like?
I think this may (or may not) be a true story of les's past. In "De Anza Jig" and "Hats off," he speaks of one of his early girlfriends who happened to lose her virginity to him.
In de anza, "I remember the day that she gave me her virginity, and then she gave it ti everyone in our vicinity."
and in hats off, "At seventeen, I'd get naked with a beauty queen At the Hot Tub Zone At nineteen, she was livin' hard and snortin' drugs That decayed her bones"
It is possible that he is speaking of Jenny, who after she dated les, became a total whore.
Definately worth asking les.
There's a scene in the Crow 2 that has Iggy Pop's character going into a booth like the one described in this song. Just for referance ;)
I was at the Wells Auto Museum in Maine, and they had Nickelodeons With porno in them. You drop in a few dimes and there's a bucnh of naked chics dancing or something. Yeah that's what the song reminds me of.
Yah, the guy steps into a private protection dance booth (glass wall that seperates the dancer from the room where the customer jacks it) and the stage is elavated above him as he sits, "eye to thigh as she looks down from above" and sure enough its his former girl friend.
I think it's more specifically about happiness coming and going over time, though otherwise I agree.