"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.
Who's in the bunker? Who's in the bunker?
Women and children first, and the children first, and the children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow 'til I burst
Until I burst, until I
Who's in the bunker? Who's in the bunker?
I have seen too much, I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen it
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first, and children first, and children
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
Ice age coming, ice age coming
Let me hear both sides, let me hear both sides, let me hear both
Ice age coming, ice age coming
Throw it in the fire, throw it in the fire, throw him on the
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
Mobiles squirking, mobiles chirping
Take the money and run, take the money and run, take the money
Here I'm alive (-n first, and children)
Everything all of the time (-n first, and children)
Here I'm alive (-n first, and children)
Everything all of the time (-n first, and children)
Here I'm alive (-n first, and children)
Everything all of the time (-n first, and children)
Here I'm alive (-n first, and children)
Everything all of the time (-n first, and children)
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Women and children first, and the children first, and the children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow 'til I burst
Until I burst, until I
Who's in the bunker? Who's in the bunker?
I have seen too much, I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen it
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first, and children first, and children
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
Ice age coming, ice age coming
Let me hear both sides, let me hear both sides, let me hear both
Ice age coming, ice age coming
Throw it in the fire, throw it in the fire, throw him on the
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
Mobiles squirking, mobiles chirping
Take the money and run, take the money and run, take the money
Here I'm alive (-n first, and children)
Everything all of the time (-n first, and children)
Here I'm alive (-n first, and children)
Everything all of the time (-n first, and children)
Here I'm alive (-n first, and children)
Everything all of the time (-n first, and children)
Here I'm alive (-n first, and children)
Everything all of the time (-n first, and children)
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Lyrics submitted by piesupreme, edited by Paymaan, ParanoidDroid8
Idioteque Lyrics as written by Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood Paul Lansky
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I love this song but will someone explain what it is about please
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Yea i dont see how people can misunderstand his lyrics:<br /> <br /> who's in a bunker? women and children first.<br /> mobile's chirping, take the money and run. <br /> we're not scare mongering. this is really happening<br /> <br /> that just gives me chills: it reflects our fleeting anthropocentric tendencies that destroys our biotic community (and thus ourselves). he is ironic and yet totally serious when he tells you to take the money and run: the world is ending god damnit take everything you can get the women and children in the bunker and run.<br /> <br /> Here I'm allowed everything all of the time...I laugh until my head falls off. <br /> <br /> reminds me of a boiling, smiling frog that just gets happier as the fire underneath warms him until its too late and he's already been boiled to death there still and frozen with his smile. Even when the first bubbles appear, the frog is just too happy and warm to take notice or care until it smiles its head off.
I agree with AntiGravityTapes. Thats what I get from this song. When taken into consideration what this song is really refering to...it gives me chills as well.<br /> <br /> Granted I had to look up the lyrics before I could completely understand it...but as soon as i saw the lyrics, I knew what it means.<br /> <br /> This is exactly what I perceived from the song. <br /> And he doesnt directly say it..but I think that he is refering to the apathy that our nation has developed as a whole. He is telling you to prepare for the coming of the end...because it is most certainly coming and to protect your families. <br /> Ergo--<br /> "Who's in a bunker...women and children first...take the money ans run".<br /> Implying...that we have past the point of no return with War, global warming, and just about everything else.<br /> <br /> Oh..and I also read this on the song:<br /> <br /> Several of the "Idioteque" lyrics (as well as those of certain other songs from the period) are audibly different in live performance. The "Idioteque" lyrics, like others on Kid A, were created from cutting up phrases and drawing them from a hat.[5]<br /> <br /> The song opens with the lines: "who's in a bunker, who's in a bunker, women and children first..." Yorke has not explained the reference, but has said other songs, such as 2003's "I Will" and "Sit Down. Stand Up." were about civilians killed in military conflict and genocide ("I Will" had originally been written before Kid A. Its lyrics also reference a "bunker," likely based on an incident in which Iraqi civilians, most of them women and children, were killed by air raids on the underground Al Amiriyah shelter in the 1991 Gulf War).<br /> <br /> Near the end of the song, a line that sounds like "the first of the children" is repeatedly sung, possibly a reference to the album's title Kid A (this line is actually a sample of Yorke's vocal from earlier in the song, played halfway through the line "women and children first, and the children", making the line "the first, and the children"). However, when Yorke sings the song live, it varies between "the(re's) fathers and the children," "this one is to the children," "this one is for the children," or "if I asked you to kill me."<br /> <br /> The lyrics are paralleled in the visual artwork for the album Kid A by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, under the pen name "Tchock". Donwood's paintings depict a wasteland covered by sheets of ice and snow, with fires in distant forests and genetically modified bears and other mysterious shapes taking control of human civilization.<br /> <br /> The cover of the band’s 2000 album Kid A, Donwood says, was inspired by a Guardian front page photograph he saw during the Kosovo war. "It was of a square metre of snow and it was full of the detritus of war, all military stuff and fag stains. I was upset by it in a way war had never upset me before. It felt like it was happening in my street."[6]<br /> <br /> The graphic novel Brought to Light by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz, has been acknowledged by Kid A cover designer Donwood as the source of the blood-filled swimming pool on the "Kid A" cover.[7]<br /> <br /> Many official Radiohead shirts sold during their 2001 tour featured a melting iceberg with the lyrics "This is really happening", taken from the lyrics of "Idioteque" written underneath.<br /> <br /> If you want to read more on this song...go to this link:<br /> <br /> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioteque<br /> <br />
f you watch the documentary Reflections on Kid A, Thom tells us that this, and most of the songs on Kid A, were written by cutting up lyrics he had been unhappy with [due to writers block] and had previously been throwing away, then putting them all in a hat and pulling out bits of lyrics from the different, unsuccessful songs. Putting them together to form the lyrics you hear on at least half the songs on the album [inc. Everything in it's Right Place and National Anthem if i rmbr rightly]. IOW this and a lot of the other Kid A lyrics are not supposed to have any comprehensive meaning.