"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.
I've made a fist but I cannot knock upon that door
Cause once I walk through it I won't be coming back no more
It's strange how everything can change oh, so very fast
Somewhere someone out there will always have the last laugh
Just say a prayer for me, in case I forget
And when you speak of me, don't say it in regret
Life's a grave, dig it
I'll put the noose around my neck
Will you get to me just in time?
I've got no reason left to live
But I've got a hundred to die
I'll put my hands together now
Hold them up to the sky
But there's no one to save me, yeah
Cause I know, God is a lie
God is a lie
Everyday I look at myself and I wonder why
I have written the soundtrack to the end of my life
And as I climb this ladder now it is certain I will fall
God, he must be deaf because he never heard me call
Just say a prayer for me, in case I forget
And when you speak of me, don't say it in regret
Life's a grave, dig it
I'll put the noose around my neck
Will you get to me just in time?
I've got no reason left to live
But I've got a hundred to die
I'll put my hands together now
Hold them up to the sky
But there's no one to save me, yeah
Cause I know, God is a lie
God is a lie
Somebody save me!
Just say a prayer for me, in case I forget
And when you speak of me, don't say it in regret
Life's a grave, dig it
I'll put the noose around my neck
Will you get to me just in time?
I've got no reason left to live
But I've got a hundred to die
I'll put my hands together now
Hold them up to the sky
But there's no one to save me, yeah
Cause I know, God is a lie
God is a lie
Cause once I walk through it I won't be coming back no more
It's strange how everything can change oh, so very fast
Somewhere someone out there will always have the last laugh
Just say a prayer for me, in case I forget
And when you speak of me, don't say it in regret
Life's a grave, dig it
I'll put the noose around my neck
Will you get to me just in time?
I've got no reason left to live
But I've got a hundred to die
I'll put my hands together now
Hold them up to the sky
But there's no one to save me, yeah
Cause I know, God is a lie
God is a lie
Everyday I look at myself and I wonder why
I have written the soundtrack to the end of my life
And as I climb this ladder now it is certain I will fall
God, he must be deaf because he never heard me call
Just say a prayer for me, in case I forget
And when you speak of me, don't say it in regret
Life's a grave, dig it
I'll put the noose around my neck
Will you get to me just in time?
I've got no reason left to live
But I've got a hundred to die
I'll put my hands together now
Hold them up to the sky
But there's no one to save me, yeah
Cause I know, God is a lie
God is a lie
Somebody save me!
Just say a prayer for me, in case I forget
And when you speak of me, don't say it in regret
Life's a grave, dig it
I'll put the noose around my neck
Will you get to me just in time?
I've got no reason left to live
But I've got a hundred to die
I'll put my hands together now
Hold them up to the sky
But there's no one to save me, yeah
Cause I know, God is a lie
God is a lie
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God Is a Lie Lyrics as written by Joseph Poole
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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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This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
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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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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
This album is fucking awesome...
roger that
I'll have to second to that,
ill third it
i'll fourth it. and this song is about a christian thats just realised god doesnt exist and is about to kill themselves.
The solo album is a lot more serious than anything the drag queens or murderdolls ever did with tracks like elect death for president, god is a lie, and a bullet named christ
a serious wednesday song. never thought it was possible until I heard this.
Tis about suicide :)
This is probably one of the most serious songs Wednesday has ever made! I don't think its about a Christian period losing faith. I think its just about someone (Most likely Wednesday) Just committing suicide and realizing God is a lie since no one has saved him yet ya know? But thats just me lol Its a damn good song! Then again most of his songs are
you guys are stupid. this song is not about suicide. this song is not about a christian discvering that god is fake so he kills himself.
this song is just plain and obvious its about wednesday 13 himself and he is telling his story about god. he doesnt believe in god. plain and simple
so... its not bout suicide but he kills himself. lol i killed myself but i didnt commit suicide :L wtf? x