"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.
Buh duh buh buh buh
Bud duh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh
You go right through me
I go right through but I'm about to
Go on reminding you I am about to see you through it
Buh duh buh buh buh
Bud duh buh buh buh buh duh buh buh
Buh duh buh buh buh
Your mouth not mind is open wide
You don't have a clue
I I am a reminder
You've got a voice so talk to yourself
Lift the bad weight off your mullet
And let the thoughts fall off your tongue
Cause I'm callin' callin' callin'
I've never written to anyone
So this is about ugly lovers
And this is about pretty songs
Cause I'm a bastard bastard bastard
In my lipstick I'm so much fun
Connect your wood feet to a motor
And the chrome dance trophy is won
A little classy plastic lumber
I'm embarassed but I ain't that stunned
Looks like the humans' days are numbered
That's a sitcom that was number one
Cause we're a past tense late rate (?)
I must've thouroughly convinced us not to mess this place up
(Shameful shameful shameful)
Bud duh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh
You go right through me
I go right through but I'm about to
Go on reminding you I am about to see you through it
Buh duh buh buh buh
Bud duh buh buh buh buh duh buh buh
Buh duh buh buh buh
Your mouth not mind is open wide
You don't have a clue
I I am a reminder
You've got a voice so talk to yourself
Lift the bad weight off your mullet
And let the thoughts fall off your tongue
Cause I'm callin' callin' callin'
I've never written to anyone
So this is about ugly lovers
And this is about pretty songs
Cause I'm a bastard bastard bastard
In my lipstick I'm so much fun
Connect your wood feet to a motor
And the chrome dance trophy is won
A little classy plastic lumber
I'm embarassed but I ain't that stunned
Looks like the humans' days are numbered
That's a sitcom that was number one
Cause we're a past tense late rate (?)
I must've thouroughly convinced us not to mess this place up
(Shameful shameful shameful)
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excellent lyrics in this song... Modest Mouse has got to be one of the most unique bands I listen to
the lyrics to this song are amazing, and it wrote them when he was only around 17
where'd you read/hear that?
This was the first album/EP they wrote and recorded, but they shelved it and waited to release it until 2001.
late rate nowheres :)
this song make me really happy whenever i hear it for some reason
this song make me really happy whenever i hear it for some reason
For the past week this has been my favorite Modest Mouse song... It switches about everyother week... But I love this song.
yea this song does rock its kool how it goes from like crappy sounding to like ...idk really happy sounding. modest mouse rocks
Did anyone else notice that they forgot to list it on "Sad Sappy Sucker"? It says that "SSS" only has 23 tracks, but in reality it has 24 because they forgot this song.
i think they forgot to list it, and then realizing what they did, they kept it off the lists so it looked intentional. Now if you would like to question a comment, you don't include dumbass. Since a comment is a personal opinion, that is what I felt happen. So get off your highhorse jackass. You dont know why that track isn't on. They either forgot, intentionally left it off, or did both. So thank you jackass. You will only take your own comments as truth and not listen to others.
I always thought the first lines were "Lift the bad weight off your molars, And let the thoughts fall off your tongue " So I figured he was saying it's bad to keep things in. You should open your mouth and speak your mind (thoughts fall off your tongue)