"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.
Oi ga-ra-to Pi-qa mine nu-mu-ro
Me leaga-you teaser
Leaga para min,
Please sin
Excuse me little hombre
Take my number call me
I can get squeaky
So you can come and oil me
My finger tips and the lips
Do the work yeah
My hips do the flicks
As I walk yeah with a good head
I came to make it with a good head
I came to break it
Did your mama tell you
About me what she say
Don't go play there
Gonna make that hot boy
Want me gonna make that hot boy
Take me
You can stick me
Stab me grind me or wind me
Fuck we can even ask your wifey
Rich bored at home with a kiddie
She don't know about
You getting nookie
Member when you first started
Call me you had a ticket
Waitin' for me
SAid you want to meet in miami
So we can start a
Family
Hoytu hoytu
Cept cept
Cinko, quadro
Tres doie
You can call me over
Me leaga-you teaser
Leaga para min,
Please sin
Excuse me little hombre
Take my number call me
I can get squeaky
So you can come and oil me
My finger tips and the lips
Do the work yeah
My hips do the flicks
As I walk yeah with a good head
I came to make it with a good head
I came to break it
Did your mama tell you
About me what she say
Don't go play there
Gonna make that hot boy
Want me gonna make that hot boy
Take me
You can stick me
Stab me grind me or wind me
Fuck we can even ask your wifey
Rich bored at home with a kiddie
She don't know about
You getting nookie
Member when you first started
Call me you had a ticket
Waitin' for me
SAid you want to meet in miami
So we can start a
Family
Hoytu hoytu
Cept cept
Cinko, quadro
Tres doie
You can call me over
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Fast Car
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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"
Holiday
Bee Gees
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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.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
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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,
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
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“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.
you guys are retarded, its not about her being kinky, its about prostitution
Maya's not speaking portuguese incorrectly. In fact, she isn't really speaking portuguese. She's speaking portañol: portugues + español. It's a mix of spanish and brazilian portuguese. It's spoken a lot here in Miami because of the mix of latin cultures and the fact that portuguese and spanish have so many similarities. It has a lot of slang words and it tends to distort both the languages from time to time. So it's not so much Maya's mistake as it is portañol's.
Michi can you break down what all the words mean? I get the general message but I'd like to know the individual words. If so, thanks!!!
Oi ga-ra-to Pi-qa mine nu-mu-ro -> Hey, Boy, take my number<br /> Me leaga-you teaser Call me-you teaser<br /> Leaga para min, Call me<br /> Please sin Please, ok?
Just for the sake of argument, I'm Brazillian and have only ever heard Spanish speakers use the word 'hombre'.
Its still a hot song. Listening to it brings out my vampy side.
I'm a hellsa white American and I say hombre. In jest, of course. But still.
Does anyone know what "Oi Ga-Ra-To..." etc. mean? (If they mean anything).
Hey! Of course they mean something... In these first lines she's trying to speak portuguese (Brazil), since she really like brazilian funk. And it means: Hello Boy Take my number Call me Call me Please sir :*
this is like the only non political song
It's still damn good.
I hate this. Why is the song called "Hombre" and she's saying or at least tryin to rap/sing in Portuguese? Then call the song "Homem", as is the word for "man" in Portuguese.
And the Portuguese lyrics are wrong.
Oi, garoto Pega minha numero Liga, you teaser Liga para mim, please sir
And the correct way to would be "meu numero" but oh well.
Good for you, you can speak fucking portuguese better than a Sri Lankan chick. If she desperately wanted to say it properly, she would've just looked up how to say it in a dictionary or something. I'm guessing she didn't want to say it right and she probably had a reason, most all of her lyrics have some deeper meaning to them, so go bitch about her improper portuguese to M.I.A herself and stop argueing with random people.
The Variable:
I didn't have to google anything. I am Portuguese and can speak it, which is why I was annoyed at MIA's errors.
And I love M.I.A. but sampling from different cultures, an innovator does not make. Being an innovator but be doing something completely new on her own. Instead she borrows from reggae and baile funk. Not that that's bad, but still.