"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.
As I walked into the bar
A man came up to me and said:
You know the older you will get
The more perverted you will get
Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Optzay, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Be bad transvestattn? (Da yuta nigh!)
Or be a good zoldatten?! (Ozay Optzay!)
Yeah, give it a try, (By by by by)
But me I'm jasto Bordello kind of guy!..
Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily, Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth
Ah ha hey!
When the Trickster starts a-walking
He sends the whole world asque
Just when you think that it's all through
Its just a birth of something new
And when the Trickster starts a-pokin
Who does he need to ask permission
Before he goes in third position
I guess he's justo Bordello kind of guy!...
Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth
Ah ha hey!
So I walked out out of a bar
And drove like crazy for half mile
I was thirteen beers drunk
On Houston I jumped in some trunk...
We ventured on New York Throughway
Where myself I heard I say:
Shall I be classic self crasher?
Or be a good flasher?!
Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Heeeeeeey, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Da yuta nigh!
Ozay Optzay!
By by by by!
I guess I'm justo Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
A man came up to me and said:
You know the older you will get
The more perverted you will get
Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Optzay, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Be bad transvestattn? (Da yuta nigh!)
Or be a good zoldatten?! (Ozay Optzay!)
Yeah, give it a try, (By by by by)
But me I'm jasto Bordello kind of guy!..
Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily, Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth
Ah ha hey!
When the Trickster starts a-walking
He sends the whole world asque
Just when you think that it's all through
Its just a birth of something new
And when the Trickster starts a-pokin
Who does he need to ask permission
Before he goes in third position
I guess he's justo Bordello kind of guy!...
Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth
Ah ha hey!
So I walked out out of a bar
And drove like crazy for half mile
I was thirteen beers drunk
On Houston I jumped in some trunk...
We ventured on New York Throughway
Where myself I heard I say:
Shall I be classic self crasher?
Or be a good flasher?!
Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Heeeeeeey, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Da yuta nigh!
Ozay Optzay!
By by by by!
I guess I'm justo Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
When the Trickster Starts A-Poking (Bordello Kind of Guy) song meanings
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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"
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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This song is great to dance to.
trickster = Loki?
Well, a bordello is a whore house, and hes talking about a drunk guy telling him about how you will go to bordellos and such as you get older. hes talking about being realy drunk and getting perverted himself. a "bordello kind of guy" would be a very perverted man, IMO
"What's that?! Me, a bad priest?!" Should read "Opzay! Be a bad priest?!"
"Mama, of course the hopes are so FRAGILE!"
"I was THIRTEEN beers drunk,"
"[Ukrainian] so drunk." should read: "ON HOUSTON I JUMPED IN SOME TRUNK"
"We ventured on New York FREEWAY"
"Shall I be CLASSIC self-crasher?"
"HEY be a bad priest"
The hopes are not frail they're fragile.
"Shall I be CLASSIC self-crasher?"
what's the line after that?
"or be a goat flasher?"
that can't be it...
could it be "sends the world askew" instead of "sense the worlds askew" maybe? oh and this is such a fucking awesome song
After the "bad priest" bit, and the two ukrainian lines which follow it, the lyrics are:
"[Ukrainian], do you deny? Or a-be a good Siddhartha (oh try oh try!)"
He's offering different types of lifestyles (to be like Siddhartha would be to abstain from material wealth and physical pleasures).
In the end, this is not for him - He's just a bordello kinda guy!
'He does not need to ask permission, Before he goes in to position'
sounds like the bordello guy is a rapist
it's fun to dance to for sure. see em live..
It seems like: Opzay! Be a bad priest или примерный онанист! (or exemplary fistfucker!) maybe it' a decision situation, a choise between two evils?