"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.
I've made up my mind and I will be leaving
Leaving this cruel, dark world
For the soulless to share
But first
Women will shriek and watch their husbands bleed
Children will cry and watch their mothers die
Because tonight, tonight we all go to hell
Why?
I have to let go of what happened to my love
I am taking out on everyone else
All the problems I've brought on myself
When I made your heart melt
My belle, we soon will meet again
There's nothing left for me to lose
Except confusion
I'm finished trying to tell myself this will go away
There's no one left to talk me down
My feet are slipping
One day, oh, I hope my name doesn't bring back memories
Of the day that I left her
Goodbye, so long, my heart belongs to the one
I am chasing after
For better or even for worse
Remember me forever
Now the only question left is how
To take you all down with me
The coroner will have his hands full tonight
That is if he is not among the dead
Dead will choke the streets
With such vulgarity that grown men will weep
And then you will find
The end is drawing night
There's nothing left for me to lose
Except confusion
I'm finished trying to tell myself this will go away
There's no one left to talk me down
My feet are slipping
One day, oh, I hope my name doesn't bring back memories
Of the day that I left her
Goodbye, so long, my heart belongs to the one
I am chasing after
For better or even for worse
Remember me
The dizziness stuns me
Would someone please distract me?
Can I really get through this?
Can I really betray myself?
For better, for worse, remember forever
There's sweat on my hands and a knife at my throat
And as the blade bites my skin Annabel appears
For better, for worse, remember forever
One day, oh, I hope my name doesn't bring back memories
Of the day that I left her
Goodbye, so long, my heart belongs to the one
I am chasing after
For better or even for worse
Remember me forever
Leaving this cruel, dark world
For the soulless to share
But first
Women will shriek and watch their husbands bleed
Children will cry and watch their mothers die
Because tonight, tonight we all go to hell
Why?
I have to let go of what happened to my love
I am taking out on everyone else
All the problems I've brought on myself
When I made your heart melt
My belle, we soon will meet again
There's nothing left for me to lose
Except confusion
I'm finished trying to tell myself this will go away
There's no one left to talk me down
My feet are slipping
One day, oh, I hope my name doesn't bring back memories
Of the day that I left her
Goodbye, so long, my heart belongs to the one
I am chasing after
For better or even for worse
Remember me forever
Now the only question left is how
To take you all down with me
The coroner will have his hands full tonight
That is if he is not among the dead
Dead will choke the streets
With such vulgarity that grown men will weep
And then you will find
The end is drawing night
There's nothing left for me to lose
Except confusion
I'm finished trying to tell myself this will go away
There's no one left to talk me down
My feet are slipping
One day, oh, I hope my name doesn't bring back memories
Of the day that I left her
Goodbye, so long, my heart belongs to the one
I am chasing after
For better or even for worse
Remember me
The dizziness stuns me
Would someone please distract me?
Can I really get through this?
Can I really betray myself?
For better, for worse, remember forever
There's sweat on my hands and a knife at my throat
And as the blade bites my skin Annabel appears
For better, for worse, remember forever
One day, oh, I hope my name doesn't bring back memories
Of the day that I left her
Goodbye, so long, my heart belongs to the one
I am chasing after
For better or even for worse
Remember me forever
Lyrics submitted by Aphrodisiac
Heavy Hangs the Albatross Lyrics as written by Dennis Lavell Lee Dennis Lee
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
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""Finding it nearly impossible to come to grips with the emergence and confession of the Thespian, the Artist gives up on his fleeting fantasy that Annabel could still be alive. Without his vengeance, his anger, his insanity and without the chance of Annabel coming back from the dead, he attempts to decipher a way to join her in death. With thoughts of suicide on his mind, the Artist contemplates storming the town with a rage unmatched by anyone. He must draw out the Thespian to die heroically as he avenges the death of his lover. Wandering the town as the feeling of defeat weakens his every step, the Artist falls to his knees in an abandoned alley. Mere seconds before his plan comes to fruition, she appears." -Alesana
why do you keep quoting this?
woah smart
Think about the title of this song... "Heavy Hangs the Albatross"... first of all, it's an allusion to carrying a burden like in the poem by Samuel Coleridge "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" The burden the narrator is carrying is the murder of Annabel, HE MURDERED HER!!!!!!!! The Albatross is figuratively chained around his neck which is a metaphor for carrying a burden on your soul! Hmmm.... murder
im pretty sure its about how hes gonna be killing himself. and at the end when he finaly does it he sees annnabel. pretty awesome song.
Okay...so he's planning on killing himself, but he wants to kill all these men and women as well, taking them all to hell. Then he finally starts the act of killing himself, he sees Annabel...
He met the thespian and he said he's the one who killed her, So he now is in such anguish that he couldnt be there to save her, and now he wants to Join her in death, but he also wants to have some fun on his way out, and he didnt kill anyone else, he only killed those 7 men in the Tavern. Then when he goes to the alley and puts the knife to his throat, Annabel appears infront of him, he gets shocked and passes out into a dream, which the entire dream he had is depicted in the song 'The Lover'.