"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.
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Metronome charisma
Keeping time
In sling shot tempo
Utopia the landfill crawls
Omens that back the truth
Erase the veins of this dateline
As it tells the story
Of this roman fracture
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I can't believe
The feeble recipe
Civilization tastes so good
Nero has conquered the stars
No one ever saw the spacesuit togas
A wreath around the head
Like saturn's rings
Stole your recipe
The ghostship cemetary
We won't lie
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Omens that back the truth
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As it tells the story
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I can't believe
E TU BRUTE unfolding
Under the breath
Under the fall Caligula time warp
Decadence in fleets come rain storming
Under threats of gluttony and lies
Stole your recipe
The ghostship cemetery
We won't lie
10 seconds to counting
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Metronome charisma
Keeping time
In sling shot tempo
Utopia the landfill crawls
Omens that back the truth
Erase the veins of this dateline
As it tells the story
Of this roman fracture
Space time clich?/font>
I can't believe
The feeble recipe
Civilization tastes so good
Nero has conquered the stars
No one ever saw the spacesuit togas
A wreath around the head
Like saturn's rings
Stole your recipe
The ghostship cemetary
We won't lie
T-minus 10 seconds and counting
10 seconds to go
T-minus
Utopia the landfill crawls
Omens that back the truth
Erase the veins of this dateline
As it tells the story
Of this roman fracture
Space time clich?/font>
I can't believe
E TU BRUTE unfolding
Under the breath
Under the fall Caligula time warp
Decadence in fleets come rain storming
Under threats of gluttony and lies
Stole your recipe
The ghostship cemetery
We won't lie
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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.
Head > Heels
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Ed Sheeran
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this song is actually called "Proxima Centauri" i beleive, the title is similar to the song "Alpha Centauri". I think a centauri is a constellation, i might be wrong.
Proxima Centauri is the star nearest to earth, other then the sun
andrew
this is about how the romans had a working space program before anyone else, i think. i heard that somewhere. it sort of makes since though. alot of cedrics stuff is about space and such, like ursa minor, which is a constellation also. again, i think.
What the hell is up with this site? First they erased my bands lyrics then they took off all my posts from two days ago? I had a long explanation of what this song was and they took it off. Fuckin dicks
Ah site crashed thats why it all got erased my bad
this was the first atdi song i heard, in like 98 off the Serial Killer fearless records comp.... great song, great band....But i will be seeing Sparta and The Mars Volta since I work security at the venue they are both playing.... SWEEEEEEET
this one has me stuck, for some reason i think its a little ridiculous to be about roman space travel. that seems a little to straightforward, i see a lot of symbolism here, i don't think its that cut and dry
this song is basically about the morphing of weaponry... and science for that matter to an entire new level. the romans are used because they were both dominant in battle and did a lot of scientific work. it's about evovling war and war tactics. the roman emperors used in this song were both insane (Nero and Caligula), so the great power falling under insane hands is also another aspect of the song.
ahhh that makes sense. I kind of wondered, if you take it at face value though, it can be pretty inspirational for a sci fi story, I tried to write it, but I'm not good at that type of writing.
'E Tu Brute unfolding, under the breath, under the fall' A reference to Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar,' where the title character is killed by multiple stabbings, one of the culprits is revealed by Julius, in which he says 'and you too, Brutus.' Although i've never read the play, Brutus was supposively thought to be a great friend of his.
This could mean that in our world of new age Emperors attempting to gain global dominance, and even that of space and the universe, there are betrayals towards nations once thought to be friendly. A general example of this could be First World Nations reaping all the resources from Developing countries in order for their own economical and technological gain.