"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.
Sluts in skirts, scattered all over this scrabble board
And it's no wonder very few words worth using are being played.
All this unintelligible squawking is drowning out anything
Worth listening to, so we're dumbing down everything
And using huge hand gestures trying to get a point across
To the deaf and blind. Chubby disgusting infants
In a giant damp crib teething and in dire need of a mothers
Rum soaked digit. Anything to numb anything to encourage
Ignorance. Anything to put us to sleep.
Someone, anyone, take off your shirt and pacify.
Make it easy for us to eat, easy for us to sleep.
I think we deserve it rephrased!
Someone, anyone, take us out back and put us down!
I think we deserve it.
Because it's not far from pleasure island where this
Pink flesh gets it's fur. It's there that the noise you speak
Can finally be heard. It will make sense to the rest of
Your four-legged stench-ridden gluttonous kin.
You can feel comfortable in your skin.
You will feel comfortable in your skin.
We're trying to speak clearly but our voices get
Drowned out by the over-excessive braying and
The always open mouth...
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mtv?
"mtv?"
I don't get it.
lol, I think he meant the song is about MTV.
"All this unintelligible squawking is drowning out anything worth listening to So were dumbing down everything So were dumbing down everything"
Says it all really, I agree with him if he did mean that. Awesome song, maybe my favourite off T.A.O.M.
I think that this song is about the degridation of culture. People talk all the time, but are they really saying anything worth listening to? So while people keep droning on about nonsense, the singer is trying to get his message across, but they get drown out by the "over excessive braying and the always open mouth."
I get the sense listening to this album that this is the most socially conscious album by Fear Before, and I love it.
This song is about stupid people that cant keep their mouths closed....and its about the media, i saw it on some interview with Adam fisher (singer/guitar)....P.s. if you are ever at a Fear Before show and you dont want them to hate you......dont say Play freebird :D
LOL
Society, media is a disease that affects us all.
The need to get rid of this all?
"Anything to numb Anything to encourage ignorance Anything to numb Anything to put us to sleep Anything to numb Anything to encourage ignorance Anything to numb Anything…"
And the lyric "Because it’s not far from pleasure island where this pink flesh gets its fur "
Obviously has to do something with female anatomy, actually females are mentioned quite abit in this song.
"Because it’s not far from pleasure island where this pink flesh gets its fur" is a reference to Pinocchio where the kids become donkeys.
i think this song is about society in general. more specifically dumb girls that will do anything for attention, like acting dumb.
InvalidPacket is 100% correct:
"Because it’s not far from pleasure island where this pink flesh gets its fur" is a reference to Pinocchio where the kids become donkeys."
In the lyrics sheet for The Always Open Mouth, every other page has certain letters bolded within the lyrics. Mouth's liner notes spell out, "WAATCH PINNOCHIO"
whoooa i never noticed that!!!