"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.
Can't sleep thinking about it
Rubbing stones together until the magic comes out,
Embracing the purity, the purity of obscurity,
Try to capture the name as it spins in your mind,
Follow it with our eyes,
The dizzy epiphany discovered an artifact of my own,
It's the little things that get us through life,
Squishing flesh together until the magic comes out,
Until we both ejaculate ride the wave
As a little dies, the orgasmic of the fantastic,
We well up, and then we explode!
It's the little things that get us through life,
I need a little escape
Burning plants together until the magic comes out,
Take it in the inhalate, inhalate what escalates,
Hold the vapor deep down inside the toxic fumes,
Initiate the levitate,
We slowly start to drift off,
It's the little things that get us through life
Rubbing stones together until the magic comes out,
Embracing the purity, the purity of obscurity,
Try to capture the name as it spins in your mind,
Follow it with our eyes,
The dizzy epiphany discovered an artifact of my own,
It's the little things that get us through life,
Squishing flesh together until the magic comes out,
Until we both ejaculate ride the wave
As a little dies, the orgasmic of the fantastic,
We well up, and then we explode!
It's the little things that get us through life,
I need a little escape
Burning plants together until the magic comes out,
Take it in the inhalate, inhalate what escalates,
Hold the vapor deep down inside the toxic fumes,
Initiate the levitate,
We slowly start to drift off,
It's the little things that get us through life
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Black Albino Bones Lyrics as written by Joshua Elliot Zucker Damian Abraham
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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I think the first verse is about records. Vinyl, you know? Some lines, not so much, but the "purity of obscurity" and the line about "try to capture the name as it spins" or whatever, it all makes me think of records and record players. And I know a few of the guys in this band are obsessed with record collecting. Haha.
Oh holy fucking shit...the song is about:<br /> <br /> a)Rock n roll<br /> <br /> b) sex<br /> <br /> c)drugs<br /> <br /> I've heard this song at least thirty times before that dawned on me.
I've been trying to figure out the first verse ever since I heard this record for the first time. I knew verses two and three were about sex and drugs, respectively, but the first verse never made sense until now. Thanks.
Before introducing the song on "Coke Sucks, Drink Pepsi": "This song goes out to anyone who collects records."
What an awesome song. It seems to be about the little pleasures in life. The second verse is about sex and the last is about smoking weed. I'm not sure what the first is about though.
yer this song is about pleasure, and vikings 1902 is right but i dont get the name
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so basically it about sex, drugs and rock & roll
Or a very small penis:)
I'm sorry, but when they are so young they have nothing to compare it to everything looks larger and better;)
Ehhh, I disagree.
The first verse could be interpreted to be about record collecting, even by Fucked Up's own admission, but it is actually about man's inventive nature or problem solving skills (science).
"Rubbing stones together" is how we made fire and got out of the dark ages- using our imagination. "Try to capture the name as it spins in your mind" could reference a spinning record, but more likely tries to describe the abstract idea of thought. It is a continuation of the Hidden World concept from their first album. An imagine in one's mind crossing through the hidden world into symbolic speech- giving something a name.
I will agree that record players were created using human thinking so it does make sense, but indirectly.