"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.
IRIDESCENT EYES OF THE SEAHORSE RISE
TREASURES SHE LOVES OTHERS DESPISE
A SHOOTING STAR SHAN'T FALL VERY FAR
DIM FIREFLIES HELD IN GLASS JARS
APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS
DAZZLING DUST TOSSED IN WIND GUSTS
THE TRAP DOOR IS OPEN
THE WINDOW HALF CLOSED
THE TAPESTRY CURTAIN VIVACIOUSLY GROWS
LONDON BRIDGE DID FALL DOWN
MY FAIR LADY NEARLY DROWNED
WHAT IS THE REASON TO LOCK HER UP
WHEN ALREADY SHE HAD SUCH ROTTEN LUCK
BRACELETS OF SILVER ADORN MY WRISTS
CANDY KISSES FROM SUGARED LIPS
CANDY KISSES ME KISSES ME
LONDON BRIDGE DID FALL DOWN
MY FAIR LADY NEARLY DROWNED
LONDON BRIDGE DID FALL DOWN
MY FAIR LADY NEARLY DROWNED
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN,
FALLING DOWN, FALLING DOWN
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN,
MY FAIR LADY
TREASURES SHE LOVES OTHERS DESPISE
A SHOOTING STAR SHAN'T FALL VERY FAR
DIM FIREFLIES HELD IN GLASS JARS
APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS
DAZZLING DUST TOSSED IN WIND GUSTS
THE TRAP DOOR IS OPEN
THE WINDOW HALF CLOSED
THE TAPESTRY CURTAIN VIVACIOUSLY GROWS
LONDON BRIDGE DID FALL DOWN
MY FAIR LADY NEARLY DROWNED
WHAT IS THE REASON TO LOCK HER UP
WHEN ALREADY SHE HAD SUCH ROTTEN LUCK
BRACELETS OF SILVER ADORN MY WRISTS
CANDY KISSES FROM SUGARED LIPS
CANDY KISSES ME KISSES ME
LONDON BRIDGE DID FALL DOWN
MY FAIR LADY NEARLY DROWNED
LONDON BRIDGE DID FALL DOWN
MY FAIR LADY NEARLY DROWNED
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN,
FALLING DOWN, FALLING DOWN
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN,
MY FAIR LADY
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"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"
Holiday
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Mountain Song
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
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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.
Yeah this song is pretty jarring. Judging from some context clues (May bring flowers, trap door is open, window, curtain, silver bracelets adorn my wrists, kisses from sugared lips) I think this about a girl or woman who was captured and forced into sex slavery. If you didn't know, a lot of big time human trafficking groups take girls from raves and homes and pull them into a room with a trap door (literally) and then BOOM, gone from the world. I sincerely hope the writer of this song didn't have to go through this. But if she did, I'm grateful that she lived to sing about it.
@funk115366 I think your interpretation is not far from the truth... Tina Root, the vocalist of this band, frequently dressed like a dominatrix or a gothic lolita doll, both girls in fact were quite fond of pink/blue hair and doll imagery... All of this hinting at sadomasochistic relationship both possibly were involved in at some point during their lives.<br /> <br /> They (or at least one of them) may have been victims of the MK Ultra mind control program. The handlers frequently make literal puppets out of the manipulated performers:<br /> whale.to/b/doll_imagery.html<br /> <br /> Pink hair is actually a symbol of submission often used in mind control: exposingthematrix.blogspot.com/2012/04/pink-symbolism.html<br /> <br /> You can still find photos of these girls in cages, or Tina wearing devil horns and leopard pattern catsuit (cat/kitten alter ego) on stage. All of this is definitely not just some random coincidence. I think she's been through a lot.<br /> <br /> Here's a creepy promo photo from her later project, Small Halo. She has her mouth taped like a hostage or a slave, and the guy next to her looks like he has total control over her...<br /> postimg.cc/qNtK3W58
@funk115366 If the links don't work, just copy them and remove the extra http:// part, for some reason they got broken...
This song is really different than most you hear. The unforgettable melody definitely hooks you cause of the dark and gloomy tone. Its something like you'd hear in a horror movie. A spine chiller, no doubt.
I must say I love the bels at the begining, it give the whole song this really creepy childish overtone...and as far as the meaning goes....I really think only Tina Root knows, However y take on it is that the lyrics are really just a dark twist of a few popular childrens rhymes....or at least that the way it seems to me.
I think that the use of the child rhymes are a great touch, the way they warp things. Kinda like how one's view of the world warps as they get older, ne?
Ok, I've been doing a lot of thinking about this song and I think I've finally come up with an interpretation that I can live with :
Obviously the central theme the song is written around is the children's rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down. Now the "my fair lady" actually refers to a Queen or Duchess of the time however I once read that some historians were speculating that it could have been a reference to a very old English tradition of burying a dead virgin where ever a bridge was being built to ensure its steadfastness and I think this is what the lyrics are playing on.
I mean you could technically burry any child at a place to insure your bridge will stand since they're most certainly virgins but for the sake of the song its more fun to imagine a virgin sacrifice instead - the "my fair lady". Also if you want to take it further and say that the duchess involved with its building and ordering of its construction is the one they're talking about sacrificing it would make sense since before the construction of the bridge taxed heavily on the well being of many a family at time. Or you could have a woman who was going to be sacrificed and was afforded a bit of luxury until her time was up.
The begining sounds frighteningly like the music in one of the castles in the Legend of Zelda Link game.