"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.
I used to be lunatic from the gracious days
I used to be woebegone and so restless nights
My aching heart would bleed for you to see
Oh but now
(I don't find myself bouncing round whistling
and fortunes to make me cry)
No more "I love yous"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word
(The lover speaks about the monsters)
I used to have demons in my room at night
Desire,despair,desire,so many monsters
Oh but now
(I don't find myself bouncing round whistling
and fortunes to make me cry)
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me in silence
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word
They were being really crazy
They were on the come.
And you know what mammy?
Everybody was being really crazy
Uh huh
The monsters are crazy
There are monsters outsides
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me in silence
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word
Outside the word
I used to be woebegone and so restless nights
My aching heart would bleed for you to see
Oh but now
(I don't find myself bouncing round whistling
and fortunes to make me cry)
No more "I love yous"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word
(The lover speaks about the monsters)
I used to have demons in my room at night
Desire,despair,desire,so many monsters
Oh but now
(I don't find myself bouncing round whistling
and fortunes to make me cry)
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me in silence
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word
They were being really crazy
They were on the come.
And you know what mammy?
Everybody was being really crazy
Uh huh
The monsters are crazy
There are monsters outsides
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me
No more "I love you's"
The language is leaving me in silence
No more "I love you's"
Changes are shifting outside the word
Outside the word
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery, edited by Tomcatmass
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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.
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"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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come on now!
its clear what the song is about....
I used to be lunatic from the gracious days. ''i was irrationally romantic about the early days of young love'' I used to be woebegone and so restless nights. ''i was in despair and couldnt sleep for loosing you'' My aching heart would bleed for you to see. ''i wore my heart on my sleeve for you to see'' Oh but now I don't find myself bouncing home, Whistling button hole tunes to make me cry, '' now i dont whistle tunes that i know will make me react and will make me cry''
to buttonhole is to accost or detain a person in order to force them to engage with you to play a buttonhole tune is to play a song that you know will evoke an emotion in you that you want.(playing a song you know will make you cry when your tearful).**
No more " I love you's " ''i will not say i love you anymore'' The language is leaving me ''the language of love is leaving me'' No more " I love you's " ''i will not say i love you anymore'' Changes are shifting outside the words. ''i am not just saying this. i am feeling this.
I used to have demons in my room at night Desire, despair, desire, so many monsters. '' i couldnt sleep for the confusion. wanting you, loosing you, wanting you. so much conflict in my mind''
@tmprojects You can't say "it's clear what the song is about" when it's all guess work. Only Annie Lennox can tell you what it really means. All we can do is guess. Your guess might be great, or it could be miles off.
@tmprojects or more accurately, only Joseph Hughes and David Freeman can tell you.
ouch yea i know that...
amazing song, annie lennox was definitely the better half of eurythmics- although i have nothing against dave :). i have no idea what this song's about but i think it's about someone haunted by the failed relationships in their past, and not wanting any more empty, meaningless relationships. hence the "no more i-love-yous". beautiful song anyway :D
to me...this song is about letting go of a relationship where one has struggled with callousness,disregard and unkindness of the emotional sort.....a kind of relationship where one loves and the other doesn't. So the one who loves has struggled to keep it together.....dealt with 'demons' - 'desire', 'despair', 'desire'......stayed as long as he/she could.....and is finally letting go. I hope to God she does! I've been there......
I totally agree with you redautumn. I've been there too.
amazing
Annie said in an interview on her Central Park DVD that this song to her is about the falseness and monotony of certain loves and that she's "over" the whole love scene, the way she interprets it. I love the original-- they're always great if AL wants to cover it! But I just really prefer her vocals and arrangement.
The video, all that Tolouse LaTrec business in the video is representative of people's facades, and maybe eventaully finding a place that they can be real. You'll notice Annie FACILITATES this, but never gets to let her guise down. She's almost bitter, and she doesn't even want to try any more.
What an incredible song!!!!
Those who think this song is about child abuse are simply incorrect. It is, as others have suggested, about falling out of love with someone who once completely infatuated the person in the song, but didn't return that love.
The opening line in the original song is, "I used to be lunatic from your gracious face.", meaning just the sight of his lover's face drove him crazy with desire, etc. That would hardly be the perspective of a child to his/her abuser.
Also, the line sung by the chorus introducing the second verse, "The lover speaks about the monsters." identifies the singer as "the lover", again hardly a description of a child.
Finally, the lines "I used to have demons in my room at night Desire, despair, desire, so many monsters." are not typical emotions a child would be dealing with alone in their room at night - here the singer is clearly going through the turmoil of desiring the person, and despairing that they will never see them again, etc.
Well people sorry to burst your bubble but she didn't write the song and it was written by a man. So its not about her being molested.
The video is a mask for the song.
Maybe if you think long and hard you will get what I mean.
Its all an act... An act to seem normal when in fact that Love has reached a plateau in the persons life... To the point that you are young and love easily... But now older you love and lost so much... Maybe its a string of broken hearts or just one loss... But there comes a point to where NOTHING or ANYONE will ever make you feel the same again... and any attempt to fill in the gaps only cheapens the precious memories. So why bother? Is it possible you have loved so much you no longer find a need to really BE with anyone? The person has forsaken love because you realize that the love you lost can and never will be replaced.. So why bother? In my case I have already lost nearly everyone I love and the pain is so tremendous that I can not bare to love anyone else because of the inability to lose anymore... Even when this song came out I wanted to forsake love... but my young heart wouldn't let me... its hard when everyone is constantly trying to be with you... till you realize its not you who they love, but the idea of you... They don't actually know you at all... Maybe before I would have gone to the end of the earth for true love... But not now... Cause its not you who needs to prove your love but them... No more I love you's here..... The language is leaving me in silence... There is more to life than how much someone can love you... More so how much love can you give and not expect any in return? No one tells me they love me anymore... But I love many...
yes i must agree that it is a good song. odd for a person like me not my style of music at ALL. anyways i think that the song may mean that she was in a relationship where her partner wasn't there physically or emotionally so she would find things to make a fuss over so that he would pay attention to her. so finally she became so emoyionally exhausted that she gave up on the relationship...... but i am probably wrong