"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.
Blue cadet three, do you connect?
Blue cadet three, do you connect?
Blue cadet three
Do you connect?
Blue cadet three, do you connect?
Blue cadet three
Do you connect?
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maybe his dad was a blue cadet, and they were talking on a radio, and he couldnt hear his dad so we was going "BLUE CADET DO YOU CONNECT?" for like an hour, and then someone shot his dads radio and tahts the last thing he heard from his dad. And then he wrote float on
lawl
you do realize that this was literally one of the first songs he ever wrote, and float on was one of the most recent....sad sappy sucker was supposed to be his first album ever released
or maybe issac is an alien!!!! yea that sounds cool! and hes trapped in jail on earth and cant make it home for autumn on planet x......dumbfuck cock lol
I don't think that anyone but Issac or the rest of modest mouse knows what this song is about it could be anything, or whatever you want it to be. Thats the best part of some music, when it means something different to you, and in that sense it kind of becomes unique to the listener. Maybe Issac thought all these songs sucked to much to be the debut album and all the short songs are really just unfinished. One of my all time favorite albums, and i love his innocence and youth in it. Now he just seems angry at the world.
Well there is a long silence (half a minute long) at the end of the song, so that must mean that all connection is lost. Which really leaves a sad message, that the person is definitely gone.
It could mean that he had just lost someone in his life, he was trying to contact them but the person won't talk to him or that the person was dead and he could, again, no longer contact them.
it appears to be a message to a person who can discern language as absolute code. but i believe blue cadet 3 is the sender rather than the receiver of the message do you connect.
like a call on a marine radio when you identify yourself first, then say what you want..
i really hope none of you took cocacola's take on it as anything more than a joke, although it sounds like you did
man, this is SO incredibly deep...
i actually have this 7" and it is awesome
I like Cock's take on it.
I like Cock's take on it.
hahaha, I like the cocka cola kid's idea too, especially the last part.