"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.
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Fast Car
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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.
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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I think it's so funny that the cocteau twins have a page on songmeanings.
@Possibilities you get it. i learn to love a vulgar bumblebee.
@Possibilities I love it it too, and it reinforces why songmeanings.com is so great! Every one hears everything differently, and brings their own unique interpretation into song!
you guys doesn't she say "i want to love a boy that won't love me" not "i want to love me"?
HyperGlitter- <br /> <br /> I definitely hear "I want to love a boy that won't love me"~<br /> <br /> you're 100% right- they need to amend these lyrics, for sure....<br /> <br />
@HyperGlitter <br /> "i learn to love a vulgar bumblebee"<br /> is what the acid told me she is singing.
Carnivals are bluster loud I'm dizzy so i go under the 'big dipper' Come fantasy for a carnival How fitting before a wedding
This is what I think it is: Paramours are blessed they are I'll do some self adore under the 'Big Dipper' Come fantasy for a carnival How fitting for a wedding day.
awesome song. also i like the fact that she pronounces almost everything entirely different.
HyperGlitter-
I definitely hear "I want to love a boy that won't love me"~
you're 100% right- they need to amend these lyrics, for sure....
I love the sound & feel of this song- not as much as Lazy Calm, but a close 2nd....
This song was inspired by the Cocteau's visit to Vegas.
It certainly wasn't. When they played there at the end of the HOLV tour, they stated they had never been there before.
Her voice is very confident and sexy! The guitar solo is for famous lovers!
I think that the phrase "Heaven or Las Vegas" arose in a much earlier Cocteau Twins song. Lawrence, the singer of Felt, told the band how much he loved that phrase, in that it's so ambiguous: Is it saying that Las Vegas is heaven or hell or both?
I don't think it was inspired by them going to Las Vegas--at least I've never heard that. Naturally, though, they ended their US tour of that album in Las Vegas.
I thought the whole idea of the CT was that the lyrics weren't important. It wasn't supposed to be interpreted because they sang words that fit and sounded in harmony. To try to translate in interpret the lyrics may be a total waste of time.
I'm brazilian and, as you can see, my english is pretty poor. But, even so, even I can't understand anything, or almost anything she says, many of her songs make me melancholic, not sad, but introspective . Ok, maybe a little sad. It brings me back to my teen years. It's strange because I didn't know the CT that time.