"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.
It's not a case of doing what's right
It's just the way I feel that matters
Tell me I'm wrong
I don't really care
It's not a case of share and share alike
I take what I require
I don't understand
You say it's not fair
You expect me to act like a lover
Consider my moves and deserve the reward
To hold you in my arms and wait, wait
Wait for something to happen
It's not a case of telling the truth
Some lines just fit the situation
Call me a liar
You would anyway
It's not a case of aiming to please
You know your always crying
It's just your part
In the play for today
It's just the way I feel that matters
Tell me I'm wrong
I don't really care
It's not a case of share and share alike
I take what I require
I don't understand
You say it's not fair
You expect me to act like a lover
Consider my moves and deserve the reward
To hold you in my arms and wait, wait
Wait for something to happen
It's not a case of telling the truth
Some lines just fit the situation
Call me a liar
You would anyway
It's not a case of aiming to please
You know your always crying
It's just your part
In the play for today
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Play for Today Lyrics as written by Matthieu A. Hartley Laurence Andrew Tolhurst
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"The fraudulent aspects of an insincere relationship".
This song is so good. One of my favorites.
@monster36604 Yes, one of my favorites as well. Appreciate the quote that you put up there, and thank you. But seriously don’t see how anyone can look at the lyrics otherwise. It’s pretty clear the singer is putting it right out there that he doesn’t really give a f..k. Basically Mr. Smith is acting out as a complete using scoundrel. Showing us how unempathetic using bastards can actually think and feel. And did a freaking brilliant job of it. <br /> My favorite band for so many reasons, they have been since 1982 when I first was introduced to them. Sheer brilliance. Meant and mean a great deal to me.
For me he is talking about that kind of relationship where one of the parts is always complaining and blaming the other.
"You expect me to act like a lover Consider my moves and deserve the reward"
It sounds to me that his relationship was a bit stagnated and his lover is telling that he should earn her love, "deserve the reward" but if he would, he would just "wait for something to happen" cause in the end she is asking him to deserve her love but not doing much effort to make the relationship fun or worth it.
"It's not a case of aiming to please You know you're always crying"
Might be the case that she is doing so much just to please him, but always waiting something back so she is always end up crying.
"It's not a case of telling the truth Some lines just fit the situation"
In the end I think he liked her at first and wanted the relationship to work so is not a case that he was lying, it is in fact that she is asking so much to hear the truth (which for her is that he doesn't love her), that that in fact is becoming an annoyance, and if she continues with that, it might just become the truth and the line will fit the situation.
hehehe selfish teenage love here.. i still like to listen to this song though when i am feeling immature and spiteful... giggling away the uncomfortable feeling of the responsibility of someone elses tears..
@Ratzody absolutely. The protagonist of this song is a jerk. It\'s an exploration of immature lack of empathy and lack of perspective. He\'s complaining about his lover complaining.
Pure teenage angst and rebellion. I feel its about this girl she expects Robert to do things for her benefit and Robert is saying no, I am my own individual, don't expect me to do this and that, don't expect me to bow down to your laws of relationships/sex whatever, I will do as I feel and I'm not playing your games!!!
I can't relate if you can't tell
I think there is a degree of sarcasm and/or cynicism in this one - kinda like "Let's Go to Bed." The narrator seems to be describing a relationship that has become so annoyingly predictable that he views it as a sort of "play" they're acting out. It appears that he is something of a jerk ("I take what I require"), but perhaps this can be
Could just be that one party is a complete asshole who genuinely doesn't care what the partner needs or wants or how much the other person gets hurt. The other person should get out.
Otherwise it sounds like the protagonist has given up trying to please someone who just can't be pleased at all. They should both get out.
@Bluelauramoon Well, there's some ambiguity...probably neither one of them is 100% in the wrong or right, that's how it usually is. Whatever the specific situation, though, I don't think it would be considered a healthy relationship!<br /> <br /> I thought the 2nd line of verse 4 was "Some lies just fit the situation."<br /> Opinioins?
Forgot to say great song. Love it.
17 Seconds was kinda a concept album. I feel this song has a darker meaning it seems to reflect a boy stalking an ex-girlfriend vica versa. This is my favorite The Cure song aswell.
i really love this song i think because it's so blah and in your face in a way. but i think overal it's saying," just do whatever whenever" in a more mean way than that. favorite lines:
"It's not a case of telling the truth Some lines just fit the situation You call me a liar You would anyway"
ooooo!! maybe it's not so much a girlfriend/boyfriend lovers things, but just friends in general? like that point where a relationship with a friend just starts to spiral down to nowhere?