"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.
Hey, sister, why you all alone?
I'm standing out your window
Hey, little sister, can I come inside, dear?
I want to show you all my love
I want to be the only one
I know you like nobody ever, baby
Little sister, can't you find another way?
No more living life behind the shadow
Little sister, can't you find another way?
No more living life behind the shadow
You whisper secrets in my ear
Slowly dancing cheek to cheek
Such a sweet thing when you open up, baby
They say I'll only do you wrong
We come together 'cause I understand
Just who you really are, yeah, baby
Little sister, can't you find another way?
No more living life behind the shadow
Little sister, can't you find another way?
No more living life behind the shadow
Now shake it up
I'm standing out your window
Hey, little sister, can I come inside, dear?
I want to show you all my love
I want to be the only one
I know you like nobody ever, baby
Little sister, can't you find another way?
No more living life behind the shadow
Little sister, can't you find another way?
No more living life behind the shadow
You whisper secrets in my ear
Slowly dancing cheek to cheek
Such a sweet thing when you open up, baby
They say I'll only do you wrong
We come together 'cause I understand
Just who you really are, yeah, baby
Little sister, can't you find another way?
No more living life behind the shadow
Little sister, can't you find another way?
No more living life behind the shadow
Now shake it up
Lyrics submitted by Subliminal012, edited by TheBronze, S0LEX
Little Sister Lyrics as written by Joshua Homme Joey Castillo
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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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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Yea, great song. I would just like more people to post what thay think the song's about ando not so many comments about cowbells or woodblocks or plastic cowbells and how great they are. I mean thats the main reason I joined the page to discuss lyrics. Eanyway if the song was really about banging his sister i'd be very dissappointed if i was his sister. or maybe happy u never know. But I could certainly believe it they look kind of perverted to me. i dunno maybe is kis friends much younger sister or somethin'.
amen to that. I didn't join so I could see who likes/dislikes this song. I think the "little siser" he is referring to is a girl who is younger than him and is kind of like his little sister 'cause she's innocent.
oh, and a good point you made; it may be a friends little sister
Even tho its like 5 years since u posted. I love this song & love qotsa! J\k i think that homme is a big fan of white wedding (billy idol, hinse the cover he did on the 2 disk version of era vulgaris) i think homme was like,"he wants to marry his sister? Thats weird but i like it" then he made his on confusing ass song like that to make people wonder what he means. Homme always writes in code in a way anyways. <br />
Guys say "Little sister" in many contexts, not just age. There's "Let me tell you how this or that really works little sister", there's "There is never a good reason to do this or that (unsafely), little sister", there's "Keep on doing what you're doing and this will happen, little sister" and "Don't BS me, tell me whats really going on, little sister" All of these things have been said to me by male friends who were chronologically younger, its a figure of speech. Somewhere between irritation, affection and protectiveness. My younger biological brother uses the term in reference to my physical stature.