"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'm going to Africa
Yes ma'am
I'm a brick
Was president Lincoln okay?
Mittens
There's a dog in the vent
Chicken necks?
I pick ken griffey jr.
I fell out 2 times
I'm pedaling backwards
This snowflake tastes like fish sticks
We're a totem pole
Dying tickles
I hear a frankenstein lives there
She's touching my special area
Go banana!
Ralphie [Ralphie]
Get off [get off]
The stage [the stage]
Sweetheart [sweetheart]
Oh say, can you rock?
I'm a pop sensation
I'm a pop sensation
Salmon gutter?
I'm idaho
You smell like dead bunnies
That's where I saw the leprechaun
Fun toys are fun!
Chocolate microscopes
You're not it
That is so 1991
I bit my tongue
Ralphie [Ralphie]
Get off [get off]
The stage [the stage]
Sweetheart [sweetheart]
Oh say, can you rock?
I'm a pop sensation
I'm a pop sensation
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
My sash says ultraman!
Yes ma'am
I'm a brick
Was president Lincoln okay?
Mittens
There's a dog in the vent
Chicken necks?
I pick ken griffey jr.
I fell out 2 times
I'm pedaling backwards
This snowflake tastes like fish sticks
We're a totem pole
Dying tickles
I hear a frankenstein lives there
She's touching my special area
Go banana!
Ralphie [Ralphie]
Get off [get off]
The stage [the stage]
Sweetheart [sweetheart]
Oh say, can you rock?
I'm a pop sensation
I'm a pop sensation
Salmon gutter?
I'm idaho
You smell like dead bunnies
That's where I saw the leprechaun
Fun toys are fun!
Chocolate microscopes
You're not it
That is so 1991
I bit my tongue
Ralphie [Ralphie]
Get off [get off]
The stage [the stage]
Sweetheart [sweetheart]
Oh say, can you rock?
I'm a pop sensation
I'm a pop sensation
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
Yvan eht nioj
My sash says ultraman!
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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.
Magical
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How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
The Ralph quotes i miss the most is "My cat's breath smells like cat food." "I bent my wookie." and don't forget "He's gonna smell like hot dogs." that's some good stuff
Ah i love it
lovely
Funny Shit.
This song is obviously a bunch of lines from Ralph Wiggum from "The Simpsons". Yvanehtnioj! Yvanehtnioj!
Yvanehtnioj! - wots that mean
Yvanehtnioj! = Join the Navy!
Remember the Simpsons episode where Bart, Millhouse, Ralph and Nelson become a boy band. In their music videos are secret subliminal messages to join the Navy.
This song kicks my ass.
YOU SMELL LIKE DEAD BUNNIES! (best line EVER)
Awesome track. This is probably my favorite off the new album. I wish it was longer though, damn it.
Pretty cool concept for a song, yet I feel they left out some really great quotes... whatever, the chorus makes up for it a lot- Jimmy's voice comes off as quite endearing.
yeah.. i would have died if such classics as
"I look like cable tv"
"it tastes like burning"
made it into the song. maybe even the whole "soliloquoy" he utters after he sees Skinner ands Krabapple in the closet together..