She's driving away
With the dim lights on
And she's making a play
She can't go wrong
She never waits too long
She's winding them down
On her clock machine
And she won't give up
'Cause she's seventeen
She's a frozen fire
She's my one desire
And i don't want to hold her down
Don't want to break her crown
When she says, let's go
I like the nightlife baby
She says, I like the nightlife baby
She says, let's go
She's laughing inside
'Cause they can't refuse
She's so beautiful now
She doesn't wear her shoes
She doesn't like to choose
She's got wonderful eyes
And a risque mouth
And when I ask her before
She said she's holding out
She's a frozen fire
She's my one desire
And i don't want to hold her down
Don't want to break her crown
When she says, let's go
I like the nightlife baby
She says, I like the nightlife baby
She says, let's go
(repeat)
With the dim lights on
And she's making a play
She can't go wrong
She never waits too long
On her clock machine
And she won't give up
'Cause she's seventeen
She's my one desire
And i don't want to hold her down
Don't want to break her crown
When she says, let's go
She says, I like the nightlife baby
She says, let's go
'Cause they can't refuse
She's so beautiful now
She doesn't wear her shoes
She doesn't like to choose
And a risque mouth
And when I ask her before
She said she's holding out
She's a frozen fire
She's my one desire
And i don't want to hold her down
Don't want to break her crown
When she says, let's go
She says, I like the nightlife baby
She says, let's go
(repeat)
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This song is about a party girl-- a young free spirit, the one you'd like to possess, but it's all you can do to keep up with her. We've all had this chick in our lives at one point or another.
so true.
so true.
I used to be that chick...
I used to be that chick...
Actually the dude needs to get on more heroines. It's heroin he needs to avoid.
probably the best cars song ever
"She" is a car.
Dude, you need to get off the heroine.
Listen, there's no subliminally metaphorical lyrics there whatsoever.
Eh, seems more like acid or E is at work here.
Eh, seems more like acid or E is at work here.
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This song reminds me of one girl... Shara... Funnest girl I know and out every night.. But it fits her ya know?
Continuing on the "concept" album idea I posted in "It's All I Can Do"
This song is basically a ballad describing the ultimate party girl whose older, more experienced, but does not look or act her age (per the "Frozen Fire" reference). She's leading him through the "Night Life" - I get the feeling the guy in this story is relatively inexperienced.
I tend to think that the girl in question is a race car girl, but she also loves to be the center of attention. She is wanting to love someone, clearly the person that is in the car that she is with, but, for all of her false courage, she is really a scared paper tigress that honestly has parental issues in her life. She is also scared at her impending, as well as unavoidable, very soon to come adulthood, as well as her own mortality. She is trying to live life as fast as she can by being in big cities and racing with the person that is singing about her in the song, but, despite being the "frozen fire," she realizes that she can not be that to the man that she is with forever, but she changes the subject and wants to race and be the center of attention alongside the man that she is with, hence the lyrics about the crown, not wanting to hold her down, her inability to choose, or, more accurately, her immaturity and indecisiveness at this stage in her life, as well as her general insecurity about her impending shackling to adulthood, as well as leaving the home that she had known for seventeen years, her risque' mouth, meaning she says things to dare people, but she is barely even aware of what they mean in the terms of context, and yet, despite all of that, she kind of goes through life in an Irresponsible Captain Tailor sort of way, that is, she lucks out on things going her way and she also bends everything towards her way to boot, not unlike a seductive sorceress. The reality of the situation is that women like her honestly need to be put into their proper place and grounded into reality, as well as they need to be rescued from the potentially deadly and/or insanity producing environment in which they are living in with their lives. This is not to say that her dating a racer, and/or being a racer herself, are bad things, far from it, but there ARE some people that are in the bad crowd in that scene that may or may not have her best interests at heart, and ditto for her parents and/or any other authoritative types in her life. I do apologize for my long sentences, my seeming first year psychology student observation of her behavior, and my grimdark view of the girl in this song, but I have known people like her and, sadly, they often end up like the Black Dahlia, and that is not a good thing in life.
@pax1151370 Basically, the frozen fire means that she burns with passion for the man that is singing about her, but she has the ice queen mentality to present to the world...think Helga Pataki from Hey Arnold, but less tomboyish and not a bully in her particular sense, yet, like her, she manipulates people. Such behavior is destructive and it also leads to insanity, as well as potentially towards things like bipolar disorder, manic depressive disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and schizophrenia if left unchecked within a person.
@pax1151370 Basically, the frozen fire means that she burns with passion for the man that is singing about her, but she has the ice queen mentality to present to the world...think Helga Pataki from Hey Arnold, but less tomboyish and not a bully in her particular sense, yet, like her, she manipulates people. Such behavior is destructive and it also leads to insanity, as well as potentially towards things like bipolar disorder, manic depressive disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and schizophrenia if left unchecked within a person.
What does anyone else think of my comments that I posted on here?
@pax1151370 They are deep! I never imagined there would be so much behind the lyrics, but who knows?
@pax1151370 They are deep! I never imagined there would be so much behind the lyrics, but who knows?
Thinking of Ric Ocasek today, rip. I've always thought this great song was about having sex with a girl and it's her first time. He's feeling a little guilty about popping her cherry (break her crown) but after being denied in the past, she now gives him the green light "let's go."