"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.
Deaf chords, dead ends
Sling set can't meet their demands
Dumb whores, best friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Street wars, straight men
Cowboys, Indians
Red souls, red friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Deaf chords, dead ends
Sling set can't meet their demands
Dumb whores, best friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Street wars, straight men
Cowboys, Indians
Red souls, red friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Deaf chords, dead ends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Dumb whores, best friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Street wars, straight men
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Cowboys, Indians
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Red souls, red friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Sling set can't meet their demands
Dumb whores, best friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Street wars, straight men
Cowboys, Indians
Red souls, red friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Deaf chords, dead ends
Sling set can't meet their demands
Dumb whores, best friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Street wars, straight men
Cowboys, Indians
Red souls, red friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Deaf chords, dead ends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Dumb whores, best friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Street wars, straight men
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Cowboys, Indians
Infinity guitars, go 'head
Red souls, red friends
Infinity guitars, go 'head
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LYRICS FROM THE NEW VINYL INSERT | Band Official:
deaf chords deaf hens
sling set can't meet the demands
deaf whores best friends
infinity guitars, your heart
ah ah ah ah
straight wars straight men
cowboys indians
red souls red friends infinity guitars
uh uh uh uh
^ Yes ok, but guys, any ideas on the actual song meaning, cos you guys sound like you haven't a clue.
I'm stabbing in the dark here, but here's what I've come up with. It's definitely an angry song. Ideas of conflict between the Indians and the European settlers are all over the lyrics, "Cowboys, Indians" "Red souls, red friends" "Sling set can't meet their demands." I think it might be about people never being satisfied with what they have, human greed. The writer uses the case with the "cowboys and Indians" in the past to compare with what's going on now, perhaps also in the music industry, "Deaf chords, dead ends, Sling set can't meet their demands..." I think it's about people stabbing each other in the back "devil horns, best friends", and at the end of the day, the writer is angry about the situation and so wants the "infinity guitars" to go ahead and bring judgement. I don't really know what infinity guitars are, but I suggest it might be linked to the music industry also, and might symbolise a group of musicians who feel the same way and might team up to bring an end to this all. It's far fetched but that's what comes to mind when "infinity guitars" is said.
The line "Dumb whores, best friends" makes me think about high school.
um, yes.
Deaf chords, deaf hens Sling set can't meet their demands Deaf whores, best friends Infinity guitars, go 'head
Street (Strict?) wars, straight men Cowboys, Indians Red souls, red friends Infinity guitars, go 'head
I'm just putting this out there so if anyone who gets where I'm going could lay it out for everyone a bit better.
Deaf chords, dead ends [chords are some that are to be harmonious, but deaf implies that the notes are indifferent to each other... loud. Like an argument/dispute that doesn't add up or make sense. The dispute goes nowhere; dead ends.]
Sling set can't meet their demands [their weapons(in this case, words) aren't as damaging as they'd like]
Dumb whores, best friends [frenemies? Yes, yes, Sleigh Bells is very high school. We know.]
Infinity guitars, go 'head [guitars make the chords, so I guess they are the people who are dueling... fighting. go 'head=have at it.]
(physically aggressive vs. internal battles) Street wars, straight men [violence on the streets, gangs. "straight" men? I was thinking of homophobia? Like guys who have to make it clear that they are straight... more typical high school behavior.]
Cowboys, Indians [out for blood(cowboys-glorified icons) vs. the attacked(Indians-the less politically correct term for Native Americans)]
Red souls, red friends [red=aggressive, violent, blood-thirsty souls, red=derogatorily used to refer the color of a native american's skin. prejudice hit about appearance... "friends" is sort of contradictory to the slur... goes back to a frenemy/backstabbing mindset.]
Infinity guitars, go 'head
As you can see my line for line interpretation kind of goes somewhere, but I can't seem to tie it all together. Obviously conflict is involved and drawing parallels with other themes.... Implicit. Explicit.
CORRECT LYRICS (mostly thanks to wornwhite, I just fixed it a bit)
Ah ah ah ah
Dead chords Deaf hens Sling set can't meet the demands Deaf whores Best friends
Infinity guitars, your heart Ah ah ah ah
Straight wars Straight men
Cowboys Indians
Red souls Red friends
Infinity guitars, your heart
Uh uh uh uh
Dead chords Deaf hens Infinity guitars, your heart Ah ah ah ah Deaf whores Best friends Infinity guitars, your heart Ah ah ah ah Cowboys Indians Infinity guitars, your heart Ah ah ah ah Red souls Red friends Infinity guitars, your heart
Infinity guitars, your heart
(Thanks so much wornwhite for posting the right lyrics. I just wanted to add this as a comment in case the edit never goes through).
nice song
The demo was nice, but the end on the album is fucking INTENSE. Besides the entirety of Ri(ng)ll Ri(ng)ll, my favorite moment on the album
The demo was nice, but the end on the album is fucking INTENSE. Besides the entirety of Ri(ng)ll Ri(ng)ll, my favorite moment on the album
So good it's F*cking insane !