"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.
It isn't for the money, no it isn't for the fun
It's a plan, a scam, a diagram
It's for the benefit of everyone
You gotta have a little respect
Subterranean ideals
Traditional neglect
Reflect on how you think it would make you feel
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
No it isn't for the fortune, it isn't for the fame
It's a scheme, dream, a baterine
We want everyone to think the same
Because you know what you feel is right
And you feel what you can't ignore
And you try so hard to point the blame
Ashamed - what do we do this for?
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
It's a plan, a scam, a diagram
It's for the benefit of everyone
You gotta have a little respect
Subterranean ideals
Traditional neglect
Reflect on how you think it would make you feel
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
No it isn't for the fortune, it isn't for the fame
It's a scheme, dream, a baterine
We want everyone to think the same
Because you know what you feel is right
And you feel what you can't ignore
And you try so hard to point the blame
Ashamed - what do we do this for?
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
The cause
We're just doing it for the cause
Lyrics submitted by AtomicGarden, edited by dais
The Cause Lyrics as written by Mike Burkett
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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dis song is so rad wonder why nobody posted on it...newayz...punk in drublic..best nofx album ever
no way i do not agry with that nofx does not have something called a best album on each album has its good and less good songs but punk in drublic is a good album yeah :)
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But this song is amazingly radical
yeah totally rad no ones posted on this for a year but anyway punk in drublic obviously rules! this song is radical too like dudes cme on. im bored! nice to know but yeah like awesome blahdey blah! jelly beans rule
yeah totally rad no ones posted on this for a year but anyway punk in drublic obviously rules! this song is radical too like dudes cme on. im bored! nice to know but yeah like awesome blahdey blah! jelly beans rule
I hope I'm the only person ever to hear this song and think it's a tribute to The Cos. Yeah, Bill Cosby and, yeah, I must be a fucking retard.
Haha funny idea :D It is definately not the meaning, but awesome guess.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I always said that!! As a joke of course. I always wanted to make NoFX shirts with a Pic of Cosby's face and it says, "We're just doin it for the Cos"
In my opinion this song is a mockery of such bands like U2, who are always talking about cure this save that, but in actuality they are swimming in dough.
It's definitely a funny song I especially like this:
"It's a plan, a scam, a diagram"
it's like wtf, was fat mike looking for a word that rhymes with scam, so he chose the first one that popped in his head, or is this whole song just a big joke
what are you retarded? this song is OBVIOUSLY about how they dont play music for money or for fame, just...well just 'cause. thats what they do. and the line about plan scam diagram is about how other bands are fucking produced to make money, jonas brothers were created to make little girls' vagina's tingle and make billions of dollars, its all planned, when they start, when they end. its a plan. its a scam. its a diagram.
Open your eyes, don't trust the incline.
"... don't trust these lies"<br /> <br /> This is about all those (punk) bands who claim to be doing their stuff only for "the cause", supporting radical movements while signing major labels, letting the minterfear with their music, tours and output, becoming estranged from a diy punk/radical movement etc.<br /> <br /> A similar song this one alway reminds me of is spermbirds' "only a phase". Mind you, the spermbirds song ist not aimed specifically at bands but at any participants to a diy movement that betray any convictions they may once have had while pretending not to.
Isn't for the money No it isn't for the fun It's a plan, a scam, a diagram It's for the benefit of everyone You gotta have a little respect Subterranean ideals Traditional neglect Reflect on how it would make you feel
The cause - we're just doing it for the cause
No it isn't for the fortune, It isn't for the fame It's a scheme, a dream, a barterine We want everyone to think the same Because you know what you know is right And you feel what you can't ignore And you try so hard to point the blame A shame - what are we doing it for?
The cause - we're just doing it for the cause The cause - we're just doing it for the cause
Open your eyes don't trust these lies
What are we doing it for?
The cause - we're just doing it for the cause The cause - we're just doing it for the cause
What is a barterine? I think it's a scheme, a dream, a BARTERING. (like a trade or negotiation).
I could be wrong, but "barterine" is not even a word. At least not an english word.