"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.
Uh-uh uh-uh uh-uh
I eat my dinner in my bathtub
Then I go to sex clubs
Watching freaky people getting it on
It doesn't make me nervous
If anything I'm restless
Yeah I've been around and I've seen it all
I get home, I got the munchies
Binge on all my Twinkies
Throw up in the tub, then I go to sleep
And I drank up all my money
Dazed and kinda lonely
You're gone and I gotta stay high
All the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
High all the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Trying to forget you babe, I fall back down
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you, woo ooh, woo ooh
Pick up daddies at the playground
How I spend my daytime
Loosen up the frown, make them feel alive
I make it fast and greasy
I'm numb and way too easy
You're gone and I gotta stay high
All the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
High all the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Tryin' to forget you babe, I fall back down
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you, woo ooh, woo ooh
Staying in my play pretend
Where the fun ain't got no end, oh
Can't go home alone again
Need someone to numb the pain, oh
Staying in my play pretend
Where the fun ain't got no end, oh-oh
Can't go home alone again
Need someone to numb the pain
You're gone and I gotta stay high
All the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
High all the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Tryin' to forget you babe, I fall back down
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you, woo ooh, woo ooh
Uh-uh
I eat my dinner in my bathtub
Then I go to sex clubs
Watching freaky people getting it on
It doesn't make me nervous
If anything I'm restless
Yeah I've been around and I've seen it all
I get home, I got the munchies
Binge on all my Twinkies
Throw up in the tub, then I go to sleep
And I drank up all my money
Dazed and kinda lonely
You're gone and I gotta stay high
All the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
High all the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Trying to forget you babe, I fall back down
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you, woo ooh, woo ooh
Pick up daddies at the playground
How I spend my daytime
Loosen up the frown, make them feel alive
I make it fast and greasy
I'm numb and way too easy
You're gone and I gotta stay high
All the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
High all the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Tryin' to forget you babe, I fall back down
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you, woo ooh, woo ooh
Staying in my play pretend
Where the fun ain't got no end, oh
Can't go home alone again
Need someone to numb the pain, oh
Staying in my play pretend
Where the fun ain't got no end, oh-oh
Can't go home alone again
Need someone to numb the pain
You're gone and I gotta stay high
All the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
High all the time to keep you off my mind, woo ooh, woo ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Tryin' to forget you babe, I fall back down
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you, woo ooh, woo ooh
Uh-uh
Lyrics submitted by sbrab, edited by jackwader, itsmeheatherc23
Habits (Stay High) Lyrics as written by Jakob Jerlstrom Daniel Ledinsky
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I think this song is about Tove trying to find anything (sometimes reckless things) to escape the emptiness that she feels when she is without a certain someone.
E.G: going to sexclubs, drinking, spending all her money, getting high picking up other men to fill the void engaging in casual sex.
She's acting like she doesn't care, but she does and she's using anything to fill the void.
Here's my interpretation of the song
Uh-uh uh-uh uh-uh I eat my dinner in my bathtub Then I go to sex clubs Watching freaky people getting it on It doesn't make me nervous If anything I'm restless Yeah I've been around and I've seen it all
I get home, I got the munchies Binge on all my Twinkies
And I drank up all my money Tasted kind of lonely
You're gone and I got to stay high All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh High all the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh Spend my days locked in a haze Trying to forget you babe, I fall back down Gotta stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you
Pick up daddies at the playground How I spend my day time Loosen up the frown, make them feel alive I make it fast and greasy I know my way too easy
You're gone and I got to stay high All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh High all the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh Spend my days locked in a haze, Tryin' to forget you babe, I fall back down Got to stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you
Staying in my play pretend Where the fun ain't got no end
Oh, can't go home alone again Need someone to numb the pain
Oh, staying in my play pretend Where the fun ain't got no end Oh oh can't go home alone again Need someone to numb the pain
You're gone and I got to stay high All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh High all the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh Spend my days locked in a haze Tryin' to forget you babe, I fall back down Got to stay high all my life to forget I'm missing you
That's how I interpreted it! :)
Overall, a song about a girl who had her heart broken and now goes around sleeping with men, drinking and doing drugs; anything that could help her temporary not feel the pain of a broken heart or loneliness.
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I feel pretty certain that she sings "And I drink up all my money, testing kind of lonely" instead of "days get..."
"tasting kind of lonely"
And when she says that she eats here dinner in her bathtub she also says that she sleeps there too
I had always heard 'dazed and kind of lonely'.
I had always heard 'dazed and kind of lonely'.
@neo187 it's " And I drank up all my money, dazed and kind of lonely"
This song was written in the immediate aftermath of the breakup. The account of staying high with banned substances in an attempt to keep her mind off her ex is all true. "I can't lie," Nilsson said . "What I'm singing about is my life. It's the truth. I've had moments where that [drug-taking] has been a bigger part than it should be. It's hard to admit to, and I could filter it or find another metaphor for it - but it doesn't feel right to me." And when she says that she eats here dinner in her bathtub she also says that she sleeps there too
I can relate to the hurt in this song. When you lose someone you love, either because they died or left you, the hurt is intense and can drive you to do anything to cope with the pain. But the song has this underlying sadness to it that I think reflects that she knows that everything she's doing (going to sex clubs, doing drugs, etc.) aren't really helping her heal from her loss and are only attempts to cover it up. And in the end it will only destroy her.
this, I have to say is one of the best songs currently playing on the radio. the depth of the feelings and emotions in this song are very relatable after the loss of a special someone. thought the lyrics are vague as to if the pain singer feels is because of the passing of a loved one, as has been suggested, or as a result of a break-up, though the behavior of the singer suggest the latter rather than the former.
the singer engages in a series of compulsive and destructive behavior in a futile attempt to forget the cause of her pain via the consumption of drugs and alcohol.
to me, the singer is not a "home wrecker" as it has been suggested. "Pick up daddies at the playground" to me means that singer is hooking up with guys at the bar instead of fathers, literally, at the playground.
as the lyrics suggest, she is just pretending that she is having fund and living a fun life, the video also reinforces this suggestion, and almost immediately, it reflects the contrast and the real pain the singer endures when no one is around, and she is by herself and her profound sorrow.
@xenophon49 No, she means she is literally picking up fathers of small children while they are watching their children, and later having sex with them. In this song, which entirely avoids metaphor, much less euphemism, it's absurd to believe she'd use metaphor -- and a bizarre, unknown metaphor at that -- to describe the LEAST socially unacceptable kind of sex mentioned in the song: Picking up men for casual sex at a bar.<br /> <br /> There's absolutely no euphemism, or even metaphor, in this song. At that was her intention.<br /> <br /> Also, the following line would make no sense if it were 'picking up guys at bars for casual sex': "Loosen up their frow, make them feel alive" doesn't make sense for a bar pickup.<br /> <br /> Her point is that she is engaging in degenerate behavior to cope with her loss. Picking up fathers while they are watching their children at a playground while their wives are at home is seedy, degenerate, and destructive to herself, with the DANGER of radiating destruction outwardly to the guys' families.<br /> <br /> And that's the entire point of the song: self-harm, and potentially social harm, due to extreme emotional pain due to loss.
This song reminds me of all the people I've had a crush on back in middle school cause that's exactly how i felt. just watching people getting in relationships and breaking up over and over again seems so boring