"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.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo
波に呑まれた モラルは籠に揺れ眠る
地に落される雨は止むことなくただ打ち続ける
殻に閉じた愛情さえ
心破る獣に呑まれて
何がそうさせる? 胸に手を当て
産声は昨日の時と去る
声を出せず消えてゆく
Ah oh ah ah, ah oh ah ah ah, ah oh ah
争い得たもの それは自由なのか?
夢の体温感じ願う
閉じた瞳
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah
声を出せず消えてゆく
Ah oh ah ah, ah oh ah ah ah, ah oh ah
争い得たもの それは自由なのか?
夢の体温感じ願う
全てが捻じ曲がる
紅い闇の中
高々しく掲げた命を
波に呑まれた モラルは籠に揺れ眠る
地に落される雨は止むことなくただ打ち続ける
殻に閉じた愛情さえ
心破る獣に呑まれて
何がそうさせる? 胸に手を当て
産声は昨日の時と去る
声を出せず消えてゆく
Ah oh ah ah, ah oh ah ah ah, ah oh ah
争い得たもの それは自由なのか?
夢の体温感じ願う
閉じた瞳
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah
声を出せず消えてゆく
Ah oh ah ah, ah oh ah ah ah, ah oh ah
争い得たもの それは自由なのか?
夢の体温感じ願う
全てが捻じ曲がる
紅い闇の中
高々しく掲げた命を
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It's so obvious... look at the words.
"The morals swallowed by the waves, sway inside the basket and sleep"
"It disappears without even being able to let out a word Was it freedom that we won? Feeling the body temperature of my dream and I pray Everything gets twisted Deep into the red darkness This life I hold high and proud.. "
Something pure and beautiful was shattered; the goals and ideals that were so deeply cherished within some great strugle were lost, perverted, became depraved somehow... and no one remembers. Everyone has forgotten what it meant, what the purpose was to it all in the first place. Almost mindlessly, a true and benevolent thing was twisted until it became something disgustingly opposite to what it should have been, and no one remembers what it was for anymore.
first comment. woot. So far this song(well the whole album)has been my favorite. Everything plays off eachother so well in this song. Kyo's singing also adds a haunting melody to the instruments, it's just so awesome. For what's it about, I can hazard a guess, but it's about trying to continually try to grasp something that's so far high above you, just to plummet bcak down to start over. Just a guess if anyone wants to build off of it ^^
What a beautiful song.<br /> <br /> As for the meaning, I'm pretty sure it's yet another song about abortion, following wuit with 'Mazohyst of Decadence' and 'Obscure'.<br /> <br /> "Even the love that is locked inside the shell is swallowed by the heartless beast"<br /> <br /> The "love" being the product of sex, the baby, is "swallowed by the heartless beast", the mother who aborted it.<br /> <br /> "What makes them do it?<br /> I put my hand on my heart<br /> The baby’s first cry disappears with yesterday"<br /> <br /> Why do people abort their children? "The baby's first cry disappears with yesterday" likely means that the baby didn't even have a chance to cry.<br /> <br /> "It disappears without even being able to let out a word<br /> Was it freedom that we won?"<br /> <br /> The baby didn't have a say in what happened to it, and the second line probably means that the mother didn't get any freedom from aborting because she now she's confined by guilt.<br /> <br /> "Everything gets twisted<br /> Deep into the red darkness"<br /> <br /> The baby well... dies in the red darkness that is the womb of the mother.<br /> <br /> "This life I hold high and proud..."<br /> <br /> I guess this is like saying he's lucky he hasn't been aborted, or it could also be a sarcastic statement saying that their life isn't as high and proud as it once was.<br /> <br /> That's my take on it. :D
I think the "high & proud" line could mean he feels comfort knowing that if he were in the shoes of whoever he's singing of, he'd endure whatever he had to, no matter how inconvenient it was. I hope that makes sense. o.0
Oh man. This is so powerful. It could be about a myriad of things. Abortion...A hope crushed. I feel like the title says it all "An Inconvenient Ideal"...its life. A very jaded view of what the world has become, and how the choices people have made in the name of freedom and free choice, are destroying us. I love this part "Was it freedom that we won? Feeling the body temperature of my dream and I pray Everything gets twisted Deep into the red darkness This life I hold high and proud.." It's like him saying wow...this is what we did. The world is going to hell...this is what I did with my life...I"m not happy with myself.
I LOVE THIS
I do so love this song ^_^ and i do so love Dir en grey. XD
I dont know, but the ending lines make it sound like a whole subject thats personal.
I've thought some about this lately, and yeah it could mean more than the abortion thing which deadxlettersxc mentioned. Kyo seems to have sung enough about that I think, he probably means something more. Particularly from the chorus:
"It disappears without even being able to let out a word Was it freedom that we won?"
I think it could also be referring to war. I infer that from the line "was it freedom that we won?" That one line doesn't quite seem to fit in with the abortion theme, although I once thought it did.
"It disappears without even being able to let out a word" -- that could be the people who are destroyed before they know what hit them.
The rest doesn't really conflict with it either (and maybe is strengthened, like by "the heartrending beast"). Perhaps the baby, shortly after birth, was killed in a time of war. And the mother is left wondering why it has to be this way. The lines in the end don't fit all too well though.
I definetly think it's about abortion.
"The morals swallowed by the waves, sway inside the basket and sleep"
Much like Jaitara already said, he's describing how our sense of morality and meaning is slipping away in a world where people can have promiscuous sex then snuff out the responsibility and meaning that comes with it.
"Was it freedom that we won?"I almost cried when I read this. Wagahomodachi, I think this line definitely fits with the abortion theme. In the name of freedom, we're taking the lives of our unborn babies obviously without their consent. Also, our own freedom is tainted with guilt, and having meaningful relationships with others is becoming more and more difficult.
Well, then, it's the "won" part I don't quite get. It could be referring to how the right to abortion has been challenged in court and the "freedom of choice", or that from "responsibility" which you mentioned.
I still don't think it has to be about just that; "arasoieta mono" seems to signify more warfare than anything else, being that which you fought for.
I think there's still a certain amount of disconnect from the original lyrics and the translation. But yes, I can see where you're coming from.
what's with the "hironori nishimura" stuff? i thought his name was tooru.
well anyway, great song, i always go to sleep on it
I think this is about either abortion or killing a baby; "was it freedom what we won" makes me think of a couple asking themselves if now that their baby is gone, are they really "free" again? Then, "even the love that is locked inside the shell is swallowed by the heartless beast, what makes them do it?" The shell could be either the womb or a cradle; maybe even an incubator or whatever is called. The heartless beast could be the mother aborting or the person who killed the baby. Then he asks what makes people do such thing. "Deep into the red darkness" could be about blood. If this song was about abortion, maybe the mother bleeds out... She feels dizzy ("everything gets twisted") and then she dies, thou I don't really get the part when he says "This life I hold high and proud.. " if it were about abortion or killing a child... It's just a wild guess...