"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 like pleasure spiked with pain
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Songbird sweet and sour Jane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Pleasure spiked with pain
That motherfucker always spiked with pain
Looking in my own eyes "hello"
I can't find the love I want
Someone better slap me
Before I start to rust
Before I start to decompose
Looking in my rear view mirror
I can make it disappear
I can make it disappear "have no fear"
I like pleasure spiked with pain
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Songbird sweet and sour Jane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Pleasure spiked with pain
That motherfucker always spiked with pain
Sitting in my kitchen hey girl
I'm turning into dust again
My melancholy baby
The star of mazzy must
Push her voice inside of me
I'm overcoming gravity
I'm overcoming gravity
It's easy when you're sad to be
It's easy when you're sad "said 'bout me"
I like pleasure spiked with pain
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Songbird sweet and sour Jane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Pleasure spiked with pain
Just one note
Could make me float
Could make me float away
One note from
The song she wrote
Could fuck me where I lay
Just one note
Could make me choke
One note that's
Not a lie
Just one note
Could cut my throat
One could make me die
I like pleasure spiked with pain
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Songbird sweet and sour Jane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Pleasure spiked with pain
(It's my aeroplane, it's my aeroplane)
(It's my aeroplane, it's my aeroplane)
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Songbird sweet and sour Jane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Pleasure spiked with pain
That motherfucker always spiked with pain
Looking in my own eyes "hello"
I can't find the love I want
Someone better slap me
Before I start to rust
Before I start to decompose
Looking in my rear view mirror
I can make it disappear
I can make it disappear "have no fear"
I like pleasure spiked with pain
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Songbird sweet and sour Jane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Pleasure spiked with pain
That motherfucker always spiked with pain
Sitting in my kitchen hey girl
I'm turning into dust again
My melancholy baby
The star of mazzy must
Push her voice inside of me
I'm overcoming gravity
I'm overcoming gravity
It's easy when you're sad to be
It's easy when you're sad "said 'bout me"
I like pleasure spiked with pain
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Songbird sweet and sour Jane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Pleasure spiked with pain
Just one note
Could make me float
Could make me float away
One note from
The song she wrote
Could fuck me where I lay
Just one note
Could make me choke
One note that's
Not a lie
Just one note
Could cut my throat
One could make me die
I like pleasure spiked with pain
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Songbird sweet and sour Jane
And music is my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
Pleasure spiked with pain
(It's my aeroplane, it's my aeroplane)
(It's my aeroplane, it's my aeroplane)
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
It's my aeroplane
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Actualy i believe you're all wrong.. wait! dont crack it just yet.. hear me out.. You all seem to have agreed that this song is really positive, but i dont think it is. Anthony Kiedis is notorious for riddling happy songs with sad lyrics (listen and read the lyrics to 'My lovely man' or 'taste the pain' for an example)
I believe this song is about drug addiction. During the relaease of 'One Hot Minute' Anthony Kiedis had slipped back into drugs as soon as he started making music again. He admitted it in numerous interviews, saying that replacing Hillel again made him depressed and he couldnt cope. Thats why he says he hated making One Hot Minute, because it brought up all his old pain about Hillel Slovak's death etc.
So I think the song is about making music provoking him to do drugs and be depressed again. Read the lyrics over and it makes sense- Looking in my rear mirror I can make it disappear
He's depressed when he thinks what happened and thinks he can make it go away I like pleasure spiked w/pain Music is my aeroplane
Did anyone even think that pleasure spiked with pain might be a reference to a syringe?? Music is his catalyst to returning to his old ways
Preety self explanatory, hes getting high
If you think this is positive ur kidding urself. Hes saying that listening to musioc is dangerous to him, because when he listens to it he wants to get high and float away, and thats what happened to Hillel when he overdosed while he was painting and listening to Jane Byrd on his record player.
Now i know most of you will just skip this cos its too long...ah crap
wow..good call that makes perfect sense.
A most astute observation Polak! I was noticing that "Pleasure spiked with pain" lyric implying heroin too. I think he's acknowledging the pain he hides from with heroin and trying to remind himself that music can be a comfort.
I'm so tired of people acting like they have the final word on lyrical interpretations. At the end of the day, they are still YOUR interpretations. It's one thing to give your own opinion, but another to act like you can read the songwriters' (Anthony Kiedis is NOT the only credited songwriter for this song) minds.<br /> <br /> Sometimes, there is more to this world than just sex and drugs. A song can be a lot deeper than simply what is on the surface (and sometimes not, but who are you to say?). I respect you for having your own opinion, but not when you say things like "Actualy i believe you're all wrong.." and make declarative statements about the meaning of the song as if YOU wrote it.<br /> <br /> "If you think this is positive ur kidding urself." Yeah, yeah, we know. The world is only black and white. You are right, and everyone else is wrong. I'm just sorry you seem to think that you are God's greatest gift to the world.
Whoa Chinkaling. Freakout. <br /> <br /> Polak, that's what I have always thought about this song. But it's a darkly happy song. He was probably high when he wrote this song, and was getting a lot of enjoyment out of enjoyment out of heroin and music at the same time. It's dark to us because we are scared of heroin, but Kiedis has a different view of it, and he really likes it. Definitely a song about heroin as something that helps him forget his troubled past (rearview mirror reference), and focus on the things he loves (Music). Sorry Chinkaling, don't take it personal.
@Polak You're right, his battle with the H bomb is where he gets most his inspiration from
@Polak You're right, his battle with the H bomb is where he gets most his inspiration from
@Polak You're right, his battle with the H bomb is where he gets most his inspiration from