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Big Black Car Lyrics
Driving in my big black car
Nothing can go wrong
I'm going and I don't know how far
So, so long
Maybe I'll sleep in a Holiday Inn
Nothing can hurt me
Nothing can touch me
Why should I care
Driving's a gas
It ain't gonna last
Sunny day, highway
If it rains it's all the same
I can't feel a thing
I can't feel a thing
I've got a big black car
The lights above, oh yes
I see the stars above
Nothing can go wrong
I'm going and I don't know how far
So, so long
Nothing can touch me
Why should I care
Driving's a gas
It ain't gonna last
If it rains it's all the same
I can't feel a thing
I can't feel a thing
I see the stars above
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I've heard someone point out that all 3 Big Star albums have "car" songs, and they all sum up the overall mood of each album. "In The Street" is all naive teenage restleness, "Back Of A Car" is some confusion starting to set in, and "Big Black Car" is pure numb depression.
I'm not sure if this was released on the 1992 version, but this sounds like it's about chris bell, who was a member in the band [before he left] and died from crashing his car into a lamp post
It's not about Chris Bell, cause he died on December 1978, while the album was recorded in 1974 and released in 1978. It is odly prophetic though.
I believe the song might be about death though, yet the album itself is so full of it all throught that it could simply be the numbness Alex gets from everything, even driving.
hello? never touched the stuff myself...but my guess is heroin
...Nobody has mentioned yet that a hearse is a big black car... now listen again.
The song is written about John Fry's (the man who owned Ardent studios and mixed this album) Black Mercedes, which he would loan to Alex Chilton frequently.
The song is written about John Fry's (the man who owned Ardent studios and mixed this album) Black Mercedes, which he would loan to Alex Chilton frequently.
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