"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.
Here she comes, she's all dressed up in daisies
Half the time, you'd swear that she is crazy
Flowered drinks and low cut dress
That's the way I know her best
She says she's lonely, how could she be?
Every night, she's got company
Oh, Marie
I sure hope you're happy
Oh, Marie
What about me, Marie?
She likes the way she looks in her Camaro
She likes lingerie but he prefers the sombrero
She's so famous on the block
She stumbles home around four o'clock
She claims the guys are hard to please
She wears teen perfume behind her knees
Oh, Marie
I sure hope you're happy
Oh, Marie
What about me, Marie?
All day long, she fills me up with dogma
She's all magazines and benzedrine and vodka
There was one man she truly loved
He took everything but her bear-skin rug
And now and then, it's clear to me
That need is love and love is need
Oh, Marie
I sure hope you're happy
Oh, Marie
What about me, Marie?
Oh, Marie
What are you looking for?
Oh, Marie
Always an open door
What are you looking for?
Half the time, you'd swear that she is crazy
Flowered drinks and low cut dress
That's the way I know her best
She says she's lonely, how could she be?
Every night, she's got company
Oh, Marie
I sure hope you're happy
Oh, Marie
What about me, Marie?
She likes the way she looks in her Camaro
She likes lingerie but he prefers the sombrero
She's so famous on the block
She stumbles home around four o'clock
She claims the guys are hard to please
She wears teen perfume behind her knees
Oh, Marie
I sure hope you're happy
Oh, Marie
What about me, Marie?
All day long, she fills me up with dogma
She's all magazines and benzedrine and vodka
There was one man she truly loved
He took everything but her bear-skin rug
And now and then, it's clear to me
That need is love and love is need
Oh, Marie
I sure hope you're happy
Oh, Marie
What about me, Marie?
Oh, Marie
What are you looking for?
Oh, Marie
Always an open door
What are you looking for?
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Oh Marie Lyrics as written by Bill Bottrell Sheryl Crow
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing, Anthem Entertainment, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
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I love this song because it reminds me of my sister I wanted to be like her but it turns out shes not so great
I love this song because it reminds me of my sister I wanted to be like her but it turns out shes not so great
I think this song is about herself. Marie is the person she wants to be; all dressed up, looking cute, always perfect, has lots of guys and friends, and is well-known. But even though she always has people around her, she is still so lonely and she doesn't understand why and she's asking herself questions. "She says she's lonely, how could she be? every night she's got company" So she's trying to live her life as this "Marie" her alter-ego but she's still unhappy "Oh Marie, I sure hope you're happy, oh Marie, what about me?" everyone thinks she has a great life and she tells herself she does too- but she's still lonely and isn't quite sure what she is looking for.
This song is about trying to fill a void that can't be filled. She fools herself with daisies, flowered drinks benzedrine and vodka. Doesn't work... She tries with religion (dogma) and guys. Still doesn't work. Sometimes you can't fix what's broken no matter how hard you try to ignore the broken thing. Need is love and love is need. The pervious post from the FOOLS (sunmoonandstars and meursault) should be removed as they are ignorant and judgemental (probably holly roller friends of Bush).
You're both completely wrong - this song is about a slut. She whores herself around because she thinks doing so will fill a void, but it doesn't and she is still depressed. She lives a sad life.
yes, sunmoonandstars is right. this song is about a slut. but i still like it. alot.