"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.
Like the legend of the phoenix
All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planet spinning (uh)
The force of love beginning
(Look)
We've come too far to give up who we are
So let's raise the bar and our cups to the stars
She's up all night 'til the sun
I'm up all night to get some
She's up all night for good fun
I'm up all night to get lucky
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The present has no ribbon
Your gift keeps on giving
What is this I'm feeling?
If you wanna leave I'm with it (ah)
We've come too far to give up who we are
So let's raise the bar and our cups to the stars
She's up all night 'til the sun
I'm up all night to get some
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All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planet spinning (uh)
The force of love beginning
(Look)
We've come too far to give up who we are
So let's raise the bar and our cups to the stars
She's up all night 'til the sun
I'm up all night to get some
She's up all night for good fun
I'm up all night to get lucky
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The present has no ribbon
Your gift keeps on giving
What is this I'm feeling?
If you wanna leave I'm with it (ah)
We've come too far to give up who we are
So let's raise the bar and our cups to the stars
She's up all night 'til the sun
I'm up all night to get some
She's up all night for good fun
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Lyrics submitted by mike, edited by kumz, SecondElection, Forenti, SilentZephyr, BasedDiosa, CaptinIzzy
Get Lucky Lyrics as written by Guy Manuel Homem Christo Pharrell L. Williams
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Anthem Entertainment
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The song is about Lust and Love. The two words are pretty much interchangeable in this song.
"Like the legend of the phoenix"
"We've come too far to give up who we are"
"She's up all night 'til the sun" -This line is shows that the girl is fun, excited, and has a lot of energy, enough to stay up all night. Plus, she is having such a good time, I'm sure she doesn't want the night to end and wants to squeeze every bit out of it that she can. She's really making the most out the night and exuding love and excitement. "I'm up all night to get some" -This has multiple meanings. It's one of those sexy lines. First we think about 'getting some' as getting some sex, which as he referred to earlier is something he definitely wants. But he's not being sleazy or sneaky; he likes who she is. He wants to get some of her excitement. She's really turning him on in a physically and emotional way. "She's up all night for good fun"
**I would also like to add one more personal interpretation of the lines grouped as a whole:
"We're up all night 'til the sun We're up all night to get some We're up all night for good fun We're up all night to get lucky" -The only difference between these lines and the ones before them is the introduction of 'We'. At first it was a 'you' and 'me', but as the night progresses the two has become a 'we'. They are bonding, or getting closer. Their wants and needs are the same. They have mutual feelings for each other. Regardless whether the physical or emotional attraction happened first doesn't matter; they both feel attracted to each other.
"The present has no ribbon"
Well, that's my interpretation of the song. I think it's a pretty cool song because it paints such a full picture of star crossed lovers seizing the night and then actually getting lucky and having it work out for them--it runs pretty deep for a club/dance tune. But then again, it is Daft Punk. I think I would be more shocked if they released a bad song.
A lengthy interpretation, but you nailed it...perfectly. I completely agree.
I think there is a delberate disconnect. The girl is out for (good) fun, is having a good tie, not with the intention of it having to end in sex, while the guy is out to get laid.
Yeah, the deep analysis was interesting and all, but this is a 1-dimensional guy out to get lucky and he's spotted some random girl who just wants some good fun. Julien Blanc style.
@BrEnNo1023 there's also "Let's get back together" part which everyone's missing - so it's not about picking some random girl in the club. IMO it's about people who are kinda bionic/robotic and are with an inflated ego and now cannot give up everything and yet they decide to restart their relationships
@SansVisage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(unit)
The first part could refer to the beginning when Thomas Guy-Manuel and Laurent Brancowitz were in a band called Darlin' and released a cassete tape called De la viande pour le disco? It only contained two tracks.
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So here is my take:
Like the legend of the phoenix (Ha)
All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planet spinning? (Ahh) A force of love beginning
(look) We've come too far to give up who we are
So let's raise the bar and our cups to the stars
I forgot to mention that Laurent Brancowitz started a band called Phoenix after Darlin' Also very succesful.
We're up A Mexican Monkey!
Now I take turns with the lines when I sing this.... "We're up all night to get lucky... we're up a Mexican monkey!" What a hot mess. >_<
We're up all mexicans.
@SilentZephyr <br /> "Like the legend of the [guitar] fingers" [of Nile Rodgers]
Lucky is a cat. Everyone else is out getting high but they are looking for a missing cat. But it's kinda fun anyway.
Orangebeaker is a genius!! This song is d-e-f-I-n-I-t-e-l-y about looking for their missing cat "LUCKY!!"... <br /> Sheeesh! How could I have missed it???!!! I laughed so loud when I read the TRUTH. Orangebeaker deserves to get +99 points for his insight. So..... vote right and vote often.<br /> Thank you Orangebeaker for making my day. <br /> .... Signed, dave in Austin, Texas. ... PS: I also think they are looking for their missing dog "Some!" ha!!
@orangebeaker Fascinating! So we're all know where the hell Alf is gone. He's writing lyrics for modern performers. And this one is one about smth from his past. )<br /> (btw, maybe Lucky is a.. she?)
@orangebeaker I have to give you one vote for the laugh. Didn't think about it...
The true meaning of this song is hidden deeply within the lyrics: It is my interpretation that the character, whose point of view the song is written from; is staying up all night to get lucky.
Like the legend of the phoenix All ends with beginnings What keeps the planet spinning (uh) The force of love beginning
(The Phoenix in Literature represents being reborn, this is most certainly an allocation that comes to falling in Love. The first verse represents it in the most coincidental of forms, walking into the discoteque and seeing a girl where you are sensationally star crossed by naturally encompassing love.)
We've come too far to give up who we are So let's raise the bar and our cups to the stars
(The word play insinuates that they both have love for two different entities but the coexist with one another harmoniously)
She's up all night 'til the sun I'm up all night to get some She's up all night for good fun I'm up all night to get lucky
(Pharrell enjoys the physical manifestation of love, while the alluded lady gains gratification from the spiritual and spacial manifestation of love, where she like a Phoenix may only turn a short period of death, or break up before she gains the power to rise from the ashes reborn and ready to roll with the distribution of love; I believe it is party sexual on his side in this verse, but overall sensual as he switches to WE for the majority of the song; to insinuate shared gratification)
We're up all night 'til the sun We're up all night to get some We're up all night for good fun We're up all night to get lucky
(Essentially they were lucky when they first placed eyes on one another. They realize having the ability to feel some form of love, but having someone to share it with makes their universe more intimate than sexual. Both separately and in shared sensation of love!)
A great song, and as Pharrell stated, more than a song about a sexual act, but also about feeling the imidiate connection when you meet someone.
Look unless I'm going crazy the words in the song released in Australia refer to mexican lucky which is cannabis and the song is about getting high and getting lucky with woman , I suppose.Pretty basic stuff, Shakespeare will be turning in his grave.Obviously high because they ran out of lyrics, "I'm up on mexican lucky" is repeated 60 or 70 times ? boring
"Get Lucky" a metaphor for Cosmic birth, re-birth and Interstellar travel
The song refers to the cosmic miracle of our existence. Born from the big bang, like the legend of the Phoenix, we are flung among the stars. The 'force of love beginning' is hints to the ascent of human emotion within the cosmos.
Raising the bar and our cups to the stars refers to interstellar travel. Here is why:
It is widely acknowledged by scientists, particularly Stephen Hawking, that our imperative should be master interstellar travel and discover other life-supporting planet in the universe. If not, humanity will perish. As the song says, 'we've come too far to give up who we are'. "If you want to leave (the planet), I am with it!" :)
Pharrell even hinted that the song is not about the surface meaning. :)
Finally, while thematically varied, Daft Punk's album, 'Random Access Memories' final track is 'Contact' - which features the soundtrack of an astronaut who is encountering a unidentified flying object in space. Furthermore, the track is synced to a sequence from the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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thx for your post. i think the very same way about the song.<br /> <br /> just consider its an astronomers song about the search for planets, the search of a new earth we can live on, and listen or read the lyrics again.<br /> <br /> (that was for everybody else;)<br /> greetz<br /> ozzy
Could mean several things. You make your own meaning to the song. In my opinion this song could have several main meanings. Here are the main topics:
Lyrics explain all of those topics I just explained, the rest is self explanatory. No need for further explanation.