"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.
In the temple (I was an offering)
Of the heartless (I was an offering)
I was humbled (I was an offering)
And reborn
Into a god.
Darling,
A sensitive soul is just,
A tyrant who enslaves,
All those around him,
To make certain he
Is hurt, always
I don't need a reason baby,
Put your arms around me.
Hold me real close,
Clap me in irons,
C'mon caligulove me,
C'mon caligulove me.
You can hear it (as an offering)
If you're a good girl (as an offering)
A righteous choir is singing (as an offering)
No, screaming,
As they burn.
Darling, there are no taboos
In lust.
My veins coarse blood that's so
Venomous.
When heartless hears a heartbeat
He's jealous, so jealous.
I don't need a reason baby,
Put your arms around me.
Hold me real close,
Clap me in irons,
C'mon caligulove me.
I already gotcha baby,
Put yourself upon me.
I'm in lust,
A slave to desire,
When you caligulove me.
C'mon on,
Love me.
Hold me real close
Love me.
I need your caligulove girl.
Caligulove.
Of the heartless (I was an offering)
I was humbled (I was an offering)
And reborn
Into a god.
Darling,
A sensitive soul is just,
A tyrant who enslaves,
All those around him,
To make certain he
Is hurt, always
I don't need a reason baby,
Put your arms around me.
Hold me real close,
Clap me in irons,
C'mon caligulove me,
C'mon caligulove me.
You can hear it (as an offering)
If you're a good girl (as an offering)
A righteous choir is singing (as an offering)
No, screaming,
As they burn.
Darling, there are no taboos
In lust.
My veins coarse blood that's so
Venomous.
When heartless hears a heartbeat
He's jealous, so jealous.
I don't need a reason baby,
Put your arms around me.
Hold me real close,
Clap me in irons,
C'mon caligulove me.
I already gotcha baby,
Put yourself upon me.
I'm in lust,
A slave to desire,
When you caligulove me.
C'mon on,
Love me.
Hold me real close
Love me.
I need your caligulove girl.
Caligulove.
Lyrics submitted by DeadEndFriend
Caligulove Lyrics as written by Josh Homme John Baldwin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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As Josh Homme is fond of saying (and as a lot of songs seem to be) "This song's about fuckin"
sounds a little like "in a gadda da vida / in the garden of eden"
Love this song, have only listened to it a couple of times. Not sure yet what the lyrics mean but think Caligula was a Roman Emperor who was particularly debauched.
I think it's pretty self explanatory in the chorus this one. It's just a guy that wants to fuck the brains out of some girl, it's got a primitive feel to it with the rhythm as well which makes me think it's more about pure lust than love (and it's backed up by the lyrics). Caligula was a Roman Emporer who was known for being a bit insane and particularly ruthless by the way, so it fits in with crazy, primitive sex with no strings attached.
You're missing a line after "He's jealous". It should be "He's jealous... So jealous..."
Also, Caligula was a lusty transvestite of an emperor, so the name certainly fits.
Yep, definately about fuckin. Great song off a great album.
Josh Homme at Rock AM Ring - "This song is about loving someone too god damn much"...
I think it's about a guy who gets offered as a sacrifice to 'the gods' long ago, and comes back as some sort of undead creature who falls in love with some girl.
"in the temple/i was an offering/and was reborn"
"when the heartless hears a heartbeat/he's jealous"
"I don't need a reason baby / Put your arms around me"
It's awesome how Homme borrowed a verse from Eagles of Death Metal's "Solo Flights," another band also co-formed by Homme.