"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.
A divorced lady arrives home from a bar
Guess, guess what she sees, sees there
There is a naked person in my flat!
He's got a weird expression on his face!
Oh my god and jesus as well!
W-what are you doing here?
Are you hurting your chest?
Offending yourself?
Forcing yourself into pain and sorrow like there is no tomorrow?
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour!
He looks at me hopeless with tears in his eyes
Goes out of the window and up on the roof
Naked man, naked man calm down!
I-I'll give you some strawberry cake
Don't act like there is no tomorrow
You should use the pain and the sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Don't act
Don't act
Don't act-act
Like there's no tomorrow!
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour
Don't act like there is no tomorrow
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Guess, guess what she sees, sees there
There is a naked person in my flat!
He's got a weird expression on his face!
Oh my god and jesus as well!
W-what are you doing here?
Are you hurting your chest?
Offending yourself?
Forcing yourself into pain and sorrow like there is no tomorrow?
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour!
He looks at me hopeless with tears in his eyes
Goes out of the window and up on the roof
Naked man, naked man calm down!
I-I'll give you some strawberry cake
Don't act like there is no tomorrow
You should use the pain and the sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Don't act
Don't act
Don't act-act
Like there's no tomorrow!
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour
Don't act like there is no tomorrow
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour
Life's both sweet and sour!
Life's both sweet and sour!
Lyrics submitted by Neon_Like
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basically, deal with what life gives you. life is not always bad, but it isn't always good. when a bad situation arises, use the pain to give you strength and overcome angst. this song is great!
This song is so, so bizarre.
There's a naked person in my flat!
only bjork :D
the best song in the world!
I love this song. It means so much to me.
My favorite Sugarcubes song, I use it for the opening of my Nova Convention show.
most certainly about her divore from Thór Eldon he is suicidal about it and she is trying to comfort him.Trying to sit him up.
I think that Bjork isn't just talking to the naked man in her flat, she's talking to everybody who feels that they've had enough of life. She's telling everyone to turn their depression into a reason to live like there's no tomorrow.
Some strawberry cake would be nice.