"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.
Oh, oh, slow down, ha-ha
Left Brain is a beast, ain't he?
Can all my sexy ladies wave your hands right here?
This track is peanut butter, so we jam right here
I'm flirting with you in your ear, and your mans right here
Plotting on how I'm gonna do these fucking skins right here
Fellas get them hands higher, smoke them grams right here
Model chicks walking by and it's your chance right here
Confidence is a reality, your friends might fear
But I'm coming out this club with some twins, my dear
And we headed to the whip where we can smoke right here
Got the girls, got the Henny, got the coke right here
Now she calling me her baby like I'm in a high chair
I swear, I fear not a thing right here
I kick rhymes all the time, I get high all the time
Can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
Bitch, dimes on the grind, you can't cop it for the nine
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
And can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
How you feel about me caressing your blessings? Lesson after lesson
Like an adolescent that constantly getting in trouble
That bad ass need a whooping, whoopee cushion belt pushing
With the wolve in his nature, group huddles?
The kush is in the jar and the blunts are in the car
Blow Indian Indica 'cause like Jafar we be who we are
And we do what we does 'cause we does what we do
Spark the weed, Pikachu, pizza, booze, we can chew
And drink the same time and think the same mind
Mental telepathy, leprosy, legacy, running through
My legs and feet, walking what we preach
We don't gotta teach, just put one in the air, my dear
I swear, it's hundred percent everything right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
And can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
And can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
I kick rhymes all the time, I get high all the time
Can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
Bitch, dimes on the grind, you can't cop it for the nine
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
And can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
Left Brain is a beast, ain't he?
Can all my sexy ladies wave your hands right here?
This track is peanut butter, so we jam right here
I'm flirting with you in your ear, and your mans right here
Plotting on how I'm gonna do these fucking skins right here
Fellas get them hands higher, smoke them grams right here
Model chicks walking by and it's your chance right here
Confidence is a reality, your friends might fear
But I'm coming out this club with some twins, my dear
And we headed to the whip where we can smoke right here
Got the girls, got the Henny, got the coke right here
Now she calling me her baby like I'm in a high chair
I swear, I fear not a thing right here
I kick rhymes all the time, I get high all the time
Can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
Bitch, dimes on the grind, you can't cop it for the nine
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
And can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
How you feel about me caressing your blessings? Lesson after lesson
Like an adolescent that constantly getting in trouble
That bad ass need a whooping, whoopee cushion belt pushing
With the wolve in his nature, group huddles?
The kush is in the jar and the blunts are in the car
Blow Indian Indica 'cause like Jafar we be who we are
And we do what we does 'cause we does what we do
Spark the weed, Pikachu, pizza, booze, we can chew
And drink the same time and think the same mind
Mental telepathy, leprosy, legacy, running through
My legs and feet, walking what we preach
We don't gotta teach, just put one in the air, my dear
I swear, it's hundred percent everything right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
And can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
And can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
I kick rhymes all the time, I get high all the time
Can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
Bitch, dimes on the grind, you can't cop it for the nine
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
And can't nobody stop the vibe that I'm feeling right here
And we rolling, weed rolling, we smoking, we blowing
Can't nobody stop the tribe and how we living right here
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Fast Car
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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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.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"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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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,