"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.
Fluffhead was a man
With a horrible disease
Could not find no cure
Won't you help him if you please?
Fluff came to my door
Fluff came to New York (two parts)
Askin' me for change
His eyes were clear and pure
But his mind was so deranged
Fluff went to a banker
Askin' for some bills
The banker said, "I ain't got that
But I sure got some powerful pills."
With a horrible disease
Could not find no cure
Won't you help him if you please?
Fluff came to my door
Fluff came to New York (two parts)
Askin' me for change
His eyes were clear and pure
But his mind was so deranged
Fluff went to a banker
Askin' for some bills
The banker said, "I ain't got that
But I sure got some powerful pills."
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Well. Phish like to hit the bong occasionally. So to me this song is about a man "fluffhead" and he needs help. The help he needs is only found in marijuana. His eyes are pure and clear, cause when you smoke out they are blood shot. So he isnt high. And his mind is deranged, when your high your peaceful and mellow. So He goes to the banker cuz he needs money to buy weed from the Phish man who answered the door. But the banker like most of the society we live in today, think he just wants to get high, and says here take these pills. When will we learn that a natural substance can help one so much more that pot? Well thats my analysis.
Just read baout this in the PHiSH book last night. Tom (wrote most of the songs) had a brother who was dying of cancer. Him and Trey were at a Dead show and saw a guy there who was on chemo. Most of his hair has fallen out, except for a few fluffs of hair around the back. Tom wrote the song about that, but looking back, said it was really about his brother...
Actually the song was written by Steve Pollak, A.K.A the Dude of Life, but yes it was inspired by a man with cancer at a dead show, and his brother did have cancer at the time.
"fluffhead was a man" this song is amazing great piano awesome song
it sounds like the song is about a man who does a LOT of acid. white fluff is pure crystal LSD. ''Fluffhead was a man with a horrible disease
Could not find no cure, won't you help him if you please?
Fluff came to my door askin' me for change
His eyes were clear and pure but his mind was so deranged''
Sounds like a guy whos done a lot of lucy
If ya'll don't know that this song is about cocaine, listen to it again.
This song is about cocaine.