"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.
Tonight we beg, tonight we beg the question
If a married man, if a married man fucks a Catholic
And his wife dies without knowing
Does that make him unfaithful, people?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Tonight we beg, tonight we beg the question
If a married man, if a married man fucks a Catholic
Does that mean you have gone to seed?
Or does that mean you owe him nothing?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
A situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan
Separates us the questions without a home
A situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan
Separates us the questions without a home
If a married man, if a married man fucks a Catholic
And his wife dies without knowing
Does that make him unfaithful, people?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Tonight we beg, tonight we beg the question
If a married man, if a married man fucks a Catholic
Does that mean you have gone to seed?
Or does that mean you owe him nothing?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
Oh mummy what's a sex pistol?
A situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan
Separates us the questions without a home
A situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan
Separates us the questions without a home
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Jackie Collins Existential Question Time Lyrics as written by Nicholas Jones James Bradfield
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CORRECT LYRICS:
Tonight we beg, tonight we beg the question If a married man, a married man fucks a Catholic And his wife dies without knowing Does that make him unfaithul, people?
Oh Mummy, what's a sex pistol? x3
Tonight we beg, tonight we beg the question If a married man, a married man fucks a catholic Does that mean you have gone to seed? Or does that mean you owe him nothing?
Oh Mummy, what's a sex pistol? x3
Situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan Seperates us the questions without a home Situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan Seperates us the questions without a home
Most people either value sex to such a degree that they try to preserve its 'purity' or devalue sex so much that they see it as only an 'animalistic' act. I think JCEQT is about trying to find a middle ground between the two.
I think it's "fucks a Catholic" not "begs a Catholic."
these lyrics are wrong, why couldn't you just wait till the album is released next month?
best song on the album.
The lyrics come from a book of drawings and songs that Richey wrote and gave to Nicky a few weeks before he disappeared. They're no more distorted than any of Richey's lyrics that appeared on Everything Must Go.
Existential question means questioning the meaning of life. Jackie Collins is a lowbrow novelist who writes trite books obsessing on relationships more about lust than love. I'm sure it really peeved Richey that more people cared about reading her idiotic novels than reading thought provoking books.
"Situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan. Separates us the questions without a home."
Jackie's books, and her sister Joan's movie roles, often glorify infidelity and sex without a loving relationship. Richey, although according to Nicky he never really had a real relationship and often mocked relationships (like on Life Becoming A Landslide) really had longings for a serious romance, even if he really didn't believe in it. Towards the end of his life he grew very conservative in his views on sex and spoke out against the 90s anti-monogamy sexual relationship as "love" (the question without a home.)
Hey this is a pretty interesting take on the song and closest I think to what was intended by the band. I have been trying to break this down for a while. I got as far reading into it an imaginary forum taking place in which Richey poses questions to Catholics about how broad they consider one person's infidelity supposedly reaches by their (un)reasoning. Jackie Collins is a great example of someone who's work flys in the face of dogmatic views on sex according to Catholicism. I agree I think Richey hated the fact that so many people read crap like Collins' but I think he was equally pissed that people went to the other extreme and believed unquestioningly in the hard-nosed Catholic obsession with the sin of sex. He's questioning the extremes of Collins and religious sex-obsession and sees both as equally wrong in their own ways. I don't think Edwards was speaking directly about himself at all - if he failed to have meaningful relationships, wasn't that more to do with his apparent self-loathing? <br /> <br /> The lyric "Oh Mummy what's a Sex Pistol?" intrigues me. I get the impression he was saying children kept sheltered and made afraid of sex in homes that practice a loose Catholic upbringing (I was unfortunately raised Catholic, so I can kinda relate). This imagined child's first idea of sex is not to do with sex at all but a band's name which is confusing if you don't understand the obvious metaphor because you live in a "sexless" environment. The mother's greatest fear is her child first asking about sex, if you think about it from a deeply religious angle, in which the innocent question is made a loaded one with the parent's own fear of sex (through being religious) in mind. The mother here is unlikely to be a Sex Pistols fan, and like the child is unaware of their music, so she is not really in a position to answer simply - 'it's a band'. Instead the question cuts into her deepest fear of having to explain something she has grown up with being told is wicked to think about, do outside of marriage etc... etc... The song therefore also deals with how at home, (depending especially on religion) we are taught our bias's and fears despite the parent's best intention to protect us as children, and keep talk of sex - a natural curiosity for children to have - oppressed. You could even go on to say many of us as children had our first encounter with a very adult world through seeing the cover of some steamy/cheesey Jackie Collins novel, at the same time as being told the religious ideals regarding sex. Richey is simply discussing in his lyrics the misinformation/misconceptions about sex we pick up in early life lead to much greater woes later on. <br /> <br /> I think....<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
@MBlack @lateleigh I see how Jackie and Joan play into this but I'm not so sure it just utterly disgusted Richey that people consumed the Collins' media. I doubt Richey sat around reading drugstore romance novels, but Nicky has stated that both he and Richey enjoy(ed) low art as well as high art. Class and trash; if that doesn't describe the Manics I don't know what does.
It's a shame the "And if you buy new lingerie, but your husband doesn't notice" line was left out
@ShakerMaker1994 It's a shame a lot of the lyrics that were in the binder he gave to them were left out. And then they absolutely butchered "William's Last Words" to the point that it takes on an entirely new meaning all together. But that's their right, I suppose. I'm still glad they made the album and I like it a lot.
Alright I love the song but have no fucking clue... possibly something how the strength of the family unit has disintegrated?
would someone please correct these lyrics, it's embarrassing