"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.
Hey now, call it a split because you know that you will
Oh, you bite your friend like chocolate
You say that we'll go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no we're never gonna quit it, no
Now we run, run away from the boys in the blue
And my car smells like chocolate
Hey now, think about what to do
Think about what to say
Think about how to think
Pause it, play it, pause it, play it, pause it
Oh, we go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
And we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black from head to toe
We got guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Now you're never gonna quit it
Now you're never gonna quit it
Now you're never gonna quit it
If you don't stop smokin' it
That's what she said
She said we're dressed in black, head to toe
With guns hidden under our petticoat
And we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Hey now, we're buildin' up speed as we're approachin' the hill
(Approachin' the hill, approachin' the hill)
Oh, my hair smells like chocolate
Hey now, you say you're gonna quit it, but you're never gonna quit it
Go get it, go get it, go get it, go get it, go
And play it cool
Oh, you said we go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black, from head to toe
We've got guns hidden under our petticoat
We're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Well, I think we better go
Seriously better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Seriously better go
Oh no, well, I think we better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Said Rebecca better know
Seriously better go
(Hey)
We go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
And we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black, head to toe
With guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no (no, no)
Well, I think we better go
Seriously better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Seriously better go
And well, I think we better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Said Rebecca better know
Seriously better go
Oh, you bite your friend like chocolate
You say that we'll go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no we're never gonna quit it, no
Now we run, run away from the boys in the blue
And my car smells like chocolate
Hey now, think about what to do
Think about what to say
Think about how to think
Pause it, play it, pause it, play it, pause it
Oh, we go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
And we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black from head to toe
We got guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Now you're never gonna quit it
Now you're never gonna quit it
Now you're never gonna quit it
If you don't stop smokin' it
That's what she said
She said we're dressed in black, head to toe
With guns hidden under our petticoat
And we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Hey now, we're buildin' up speed as we're approachin' the hill
(Approachin' the hill, approachin' the hill)
Oh, my hair smells like chocolate
Hey now, you say you're gonna quit it, but you're never gonna quit it
Go get it, go get it, go get it, go get it, go
And play it cool
Oh, you said we go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black, from head to toe
We've got guns hidden under our petticoat
We're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Well, I think we better go
Seriously better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Seriously better go
Oh no, well, I think we better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Said Rebecca better know
Seriously better go
(Hey)
We go where nobody knows
With guns hidden under our petticoat
And we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black, head to toe
With guns hidden under our petticoat
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no (no, no)
Well, I think we better go
Seriously better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Seriously better go
And well, I think we better go
Said the feds are here, you know
Said Rebecca better know
Seriously better go
Lyrics submitted by alejandramos, edited by cheech03, NowYouKnow, xmoxex, musicismylife7, dragonfli, thekristencook, barneytwx, naomieyeomans, vriska, yellek, robbyn6623
Chocolate Lyrics as written by Matthew Timothy Healy George Bedford Daniel
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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I think it's about how people who have questionable lifestyles, such as those of drug use or crime, don't see their actions the way everyone else does. While we see them using drugs, we would "call it a spliff", but to them, it "smells like chocolate". People never perceive their own actions to be as bad as they would perceive them to be if they saw someone else doing it, and I think that might be what this song is about.
In an interview, Matty says this song is about "me and my mates knocking around in my hometown. It is a kind of love letter to the kind of relationships we had with authority figures, be it our parents or the police. its kind of a story about small town boredom."
To me, this song is a serenade or an ode of sorts to when a guy likes a girl and the time they spend together, just doing wild crazy teenager stuff. He believes life is sweet when their together ('chocolate') and he doesn't ever want them to break up or give up their time together ('quit it'). I tend to envision some cool teenagers having fun around town together when I hear this song. They don't want their time together to end ('quit'). They prefer to be youthful and rebellious and have a good time.
@euo95 what interview is this? I'd like to take a listen. If there's a link or a title so I can find it on the interwebs that would be great
Its about his sister, she was a heroin addict and she used to tell him that her syringes were her 'guns which she use to hide ("guns hidden under our petticoat"), the 'chocolate' refers to the heroin and he wrote this song in a blur of emotions he must have been experiencing at the time, he never meant for it to be released from his computer but somehow it made its way onto soundcloud
no, just no!<br /> <br /> rapgenius.com/1911881
its about weed, nothing to do with his sister..how did you even come up with tha ish!? and the line about guns hidden under our perricoat is explained by dude himself in the link above
I found your comment very interesting, and I went to look up exactly this to find out more details. I looked for wikipedia pages, biographies, and interviews with the band talking about he origin of this song and I couldn't find anything about his sister or the song being about heroine. I'm just curious, where did you get this idea? I'd love to read more about it.
i heard it was about his sister too from my brother hes a dictionary of trivia
i've looked everywhere online and he doesn't seem to have a sister?
He has no sister, just a younger brother!
He doesn't have a sister? I thought only a younger brother... <br /> I know his mother admitted to being dependent on drugs and alcohol? Could you be getting confused somehow? <br />
This screams heroin to me... As a recovering opiate/opiod addict of over 3 years, I felt that way as soon as I heard it.
I've heard tar called chocolate, and needles as guns. Besides the slang terms used, what really caught my ear was when he says "Hey now you say you're gunna' quit it but you're never gunna' quit it."
Heroin is literally the hardest drug habit to kick. I can't tell you how many times I've heard something similar come out of a friends mouth, over and over and over again.
@fexysox, your explanation is the best I've heard. The "never gonna quit it" line is especially convincing that the song is about heroin. Best wishes to you in your recovery.
Chocolate is another word for weed or pot. The boys in the blue are the ones that don't want to legalize weed. (Or the police officers) The ones in the black are the ones that want it legalized. They are hiding guns to protect themselves in case they get caught. They are never going to stop smoking it. They need to go somewhere where they won't get caught and everything smells like pot after they smoke it
It's about a bunch of friends who've been smoking "chocolate" (pot) in their car and are now being pursued by the cops (the boys in blue). I'm pretty sure the line is NOT "bite your friend like chocolate" but "Oh your friends smell like chocolate". The singer has a pretty strong accent, but I think it's more likely that smoking weed makes you smell like weed rather than bite people.
I think its about heroin . Sometimes heroin users buy a bar of chocolate for the tin foil inner wrapper to smoke the heroin .a roll of of tin foil in your car will alert the cops if they stop you. When you smoke ymthe heroin your car your car smells of chocolate . ( don't ask ) some of the band members look like user,s to me thin washy and pale
To me it resonates as being about doing everything you're not supposed to do. Chocolate is most definitely imagery for a drug (Probably pot) and the rest of it seems to narrate the finer points of a more edgy lifestyle.
In the UK, the usual introduction to cannabis when you're a teenager is a cheap form of hashish known as "soap bar". Full of impurities it usually comes in bars wrapped in cellophane that resemble a bar of soap, or indeed - due to its brown colour - chocolate. Because it needs to be heated to be crumbled up, it tends to smell pretty significantly, so your best bet for having an undisturbed session is to walk or drive to an out-of-the-way location with your mates and have a smoke. Of course, one of your mates will invariably light up in the car - and even if they don't you're going to reek of it when you drive back home, so it follows that the drive is going to be incredibly cautious in order to avoid attracting unwanted attention from "the boys in the blue". This can be made more difficult if you've become a little paranoid from the effects of what you've just been smoking. :)<br /> <br /> Anyway, I think that's what this is about - a paean to youthful indiscretions with cannabis.
I always thought it was about "the chocolate"..specifically hash. it looks like chunks of chocolate. they're running away from the police because their car smells like hash. ya know?
well its not 'call it a spliff' its 'call it a split' also it's not 'said its better than hanging on' its 'said the feds are here you know'
its about kids smoking weed in their cars cos and the policeman trying to arrest them because there's no proper crime to deal with the chocolate is a reference to the drugs (obviously)
i still don't understand the petticoats bit though?
the petticoats thing is british