"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 simply defy
I cannot even look to the sky
We try it single filed
Take on me, and it's my denial
I cannot ever find
something safe, not done on the fly.
I cannot live this way
Floor and me will kick the P.A.
You wanna play with me
I'm really gonna rock your world
You want to comfort me
I'm gonna rock your world
You say everything is fine
I cannot compete with the skies
My sing has crossed the line
Come in me, I fly through the sky
I can not ever find
You and me will make all the lines
Oh, if they could see the plague,
no one would want to be me.
You wanna play with me
I'm really gonna rock your world
You wanna comfort me
I'm gonna rock your world
So I fly
Take me
I cannot fly
Most people hate me
To fly away from this pain
Please take away, please take away my P.A.
I cannot even look to the sky
We try it single filed
Take on me, and it's my denial
I cannot ever find
something safe, not done on the fly.
I cannot live this way
Floor and me will kick the P.A.
You wanna play with me
I'm really gonna rock your world
You want to comfort me
I'm gonna rock your world
You say everything is fine
I cannot compete with the skies
My sing has crossed the line
Come in me, I fly through the sky
I can not ever find
You and me will make all the lines
Oh, if they could see the plague,
no one would want to be me.
You wanna play with me
I'm really gonna rock your world
You wanna comfort me
I'm gonna rock your world
So I fly
Take me
I cannot fly
Most people hate me
To fly away from this pain
Please take away, please take away my P.A.
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
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No Surprises
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Just A Little Lovin'
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Page
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it is p.a....I have the album it was on (spawn soundtrack) and it's p.a.
yup i agree with sidx! KoRn RULES !!!!!!
It's Kick the Pain Attacks. JD has said it himself that P.A. stands for Pain attacks.
"This song is about people who think that they feel jon's pain and can relate to it. they think they know what he's going through but they dont. so many people say to Jon, i wish i could be you or i wish i could be like you which kinda pisses him off sometimes. they dont seem to understand what he has had to go through in his life to have the emotions that make him a great singer. he doesnt want any of it. he'd give up his career to make it all go away. -David" i go this from a interview in a magazine.
Just to throw it out there, this song is Korn & Dust Brothers together.
Johnathan davis is a fucked up dude....hes on anti depressants. and anyone whose been there knows that anxiety is a big factor of that. So that being said, i always took the meaning P.A. as "PERFORMANCE ANXIETY". sort of a hidin meaning in the song. also anxiety as anyone should know is a form of pain that he wants to be taken away as stated in the song Most performers have to deal with this in one way or the other. thats why theyre usually fucked up on drugs or alcohal.
It's clearly not a typo. I'm not positive on what it's about, but I personally believe that it's Parental Advisory because of the lyrics "I cannot ever find something safe my tongue on the fly./I cannot live this way" As in, he can never say the right things so they block it. That's just my personal opinion. It could be an amp and it could also be Pain Addiction/Attack, because it reads "To fly away from this pain." All I'm saying is, this song could be about many things. I think that music is like poetry, you can relate to it in your own way.
I think this is about a couple things...if you know Davis he's slick at hinting shit. Yea hes prolly talking about taking away his mic, and hinting that sometimes he really wish he did quit singing. But what mantus quoted from was that Jon is also hinting "hey fuck you for wanting to be me, you dont really know the extent of my past to say something so ignorant" so I believe him. We only find out about it through...well...pretty much the whole KORN album, and songs like "Pretty" which to those of you who didnt know its about an infant he had seen while working for a morgue and it was really messed up. But anyways Im trying to say a lot of Davis' songs are 'read between the lines' type of shit or interpret want you want. KORN RULES Peace
I think is stands for panic attack:
"The video opens with Davis recalling, “It was the most horrible thing — I remember when I got my first panic attack, I thought I was gonna die.” The rocker recounts how he was drinking heavily and very much into drugs at the time and it led him down a very dark path. “I started getting really paranoid thinking medicine was bad for me and stuff like that. I wouldn’t take any kinds of meds and I actually turned schizophrenic for a while,” says the singer." loudwire.com/korn-jonathan-davis-depression-anxiety/
Atmosphere - Panic Attack (The P.A.) genius.com/Atmosphere-panic-attack-the-pa-lyrics
"That one of the worst PA’s I has ever had I would say I went into shock." quora.com/Can-panic-attak-cause-paralysis
You will find additional sources, where panic attacks are referred to as PA. Especially among patients who suffer from this symptom.
this song is obviously about B.A. and the P was a typo