"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.
claim your place as victim in the perverse knowledge of something to fall back on with hands held so loosely as i pour the water through so many times i tried not to wonder conflicts avoided words mumbled under breath truth buried out behind a face the advantage taken with no thought to rectify when the well is dry they will reattach themselves and again the face smiles but not to mine
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What is the sample? ive VERY VERY curious!
sorry...that was meant to say I'm very very curious!
the world will be different, because I have understanding...of digital watches. And soon I shall have understanding of videocassette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them, I shall have understanding of computers. And when I have understanding of computers, I shall be the Supreme Being! God isn't interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time! Forty-three species of parrot! Nipples for men! Slugs!! He created slugs. They can't hear! They can't speak! They can't operate machinery! I mean, are we not in the hands of a lunatic? If I were creating a world, I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, day one!
It's taken from 'Time Bandits'.
This is one of my favorite songs!
Right after the sample with the guy talking, this song gets unbelievably awesome. One of my favorites.
the sample that starts at 2:00
The sample comes from the 1991 film 'Slacker'. "Wake up, America. Weapons giveaway program. It's like one of those government programs. Just come and fuckin' get anything you want. We're gonna give away all the fuckin' automatic weapons. All the side-loaders, clip-loaders, shoot-em-backs... Saturday night specials... Colt. 45s, shotguns. Anything you want, chains, knives, straight razors... bottles, brick bats, baseball bats... and big kind of slanted jagged kind of things. I wanna see a goddamn big motherfuckin'... shoot 'em up, kill 'em, bang, stab 'em, crush... slice, kill, motherfuckin' boilin' oil. Catapults throwin' rocks and shit and blowin' up. Undercover shit, yeah. So I wanna see people putting secret things in fuckin' cars... and fuckin' explodin' and see the people explodin'. I wanna see knife cuttin', slice cuttin' choppin' and blowin' up. Oh, yeah. That's right. A free fuckin' weapons give away program. I see it. I'm gonna solve all these goddamn problems."
i think you're mistaken, energycondom because <br /> it doesn't sound like the sample at 2:00. i think it's something else.
Yes, my mistake. The sample I quoted is actually at 3:25 of Sleeping Boy the Paranoid.<br /> <br /> My apologies. The sample in My Fist Smalls Like Graveyard is from Time Bandits.