"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.
The party's over
A CD skipping
It's the same hook repeating
Grows more grating with each passing second...
And the walls contain a resonation, laughter and conversation
It was fun while it lasted but now we should be going
I hope everybody had a real good time
The hospitality's partaken
My head is flying, my heart's racing to keep up
And i hope i haven't overdone it no
I hope my body can take it
I hope i make the occasion
It's only this fucked up i start realizing
All this living is just dying
If these are my friends, If this is my home
If this is how i spend my nights
How i communicate and demostrate a love of life
My eyes roll into the back of my head
If these are the last words that i've ever said
No i'm not, ready to die just yet...
A CD skipping
It's the same hook repeating
Grows more grating with each passing second...
And the walls contain a resonation, laughter and conversation
It was fun while it lasted but now we should be going
I hope everybody had a real good time
The hospitality's partaken
My head is flying, my heart's racing to keep up
And i hope i haven't overdone it no
I hope my body can take it
I hope i make the occasion
It's only this fucked up i start realizing
All this living is just dying
If these are my friends, If this is my home
If this is how i spend my nights
How i communicate and demostrate a love of life
My eyes roll into the back of my head
If these are the last words that i've ever said
No i'm not, ready to die just yet...
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Mountain Song
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Just A Little Lovin'
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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how come lyrics on songmeangins.net are always posted by dumbasses who get the most simple lyrics wrong?
anyways.
i think its about partying waaaaaaaay to much. hes looking around and realising he's gotta quit the partying while he's still alive/
deffinitley drugs.
if you've ever done way too many drugs & you've convinced yourself you're dying, this song is dead on.
nice
god this is such a great song & a really great way to start off a CD. It just makes me laugh.
It sounds like he says "it's the same hook repeating" idk.
Definitely "It's the same hook repeating."
I don't know how you could think he says "song."
Definitely "It's the same hook repeating."
I don't know how you could think he says "song."
i hear this song is about coke. yeah i do think am! are or some of them are coke heads. could i be wrong? of course. am i? i don't know. if it is true that's the coolest thing ever and if i'm wrong i will applogize to the band. not that my opinon matters.
This song is so rad, my view is its about how people just sit around and live the same life day after day, (" and if these are my friends, if this is my home, if this is how i spend my nights, how i communicate, and demonstrate a love of life.") and how you might as well be dead if you allow that to happen to yourself, but no, I'm not ready to die just yet!
i think in the lyric sheet that accompanies the CD it says "song". a lot of times, an artist will change a word or two at the last minute and itll be too late to change the lyrics sheet. i think its actually kind of cool when that happens. great song though.