"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.
SO YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
BUT YOU'LL TRY ONE JUST THE SAME
yeah I KNOW YOU CAN LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
YOU'RE JUST PLAYING A GAME...
AGAIN
oh YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE FAMOUSLY STUPID
BUT YOU'LL LIVE IT FOR A WHILE
oh I KNOW YOU'RE ONLY DOING THAT IRONY THING
WHEN YOU SMILE BUT DON'T SMILE...
YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT ANYONE ELSE IS
DON'T CARE WHAT THEY DO OR THEY SAY
YOU LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE IN YOUR OWN TIME
AND IN YOUR OWN DEAD INDIFFERENT WAY
yeah... in your own time...
NO YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE FABULOUS IN THINGS
BUT YOU'LL BE ONE JUST IN CASE
yeah I KNOW YOU CAN TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
YOU'RE JUST HAVING A TASTE...
DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT WHAT ANYONE ELSE IS
DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT THEY DO OR THEY SAY
yeah YOU ARE AS YOU FEEL IN YOUR OWN TIME
AND IN YOUR OWN DEAD INDIFFERENT WAY
AND YOU WILL SWEAR ON ANY LIFE BUT YOUR OWN
THAT YOU'RE HAPPY! HAPPY HOW IT ALL IS...
AT LEAST IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU THINK I SHOULD THINK
THAT YOU THINK ABOUT ANY OF THIS
ABOUT ANY OF THIS... yeah... and it's so much more than you ever need...
AND YOU WILL SWEAR ON ANY LIE BUT YOUR OWN
THAT YOU'RE HAPPY! HAPPY HOW IT ALL IS...
AT LEAST IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU THINK I SHOULD THINK
THAT YOU THINK ABOUT ANY OF THIS...
YOU'RE SO... HAPPY yeah!
YOU'RE SO... HAPPY yeah!
YOU'RE SO... HAPPY yeah!
YOU'RE SO... HAPPY yeah!
SO HAPPY... YOU COULD KILL ME!
BUT YOU'LL TRY ONE JUST THE SAME
yeah I KNOW YOU CAN LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
YOU'RE JUST PLAYING A GAME...
AGAIN
oh YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE FAMOUSLY STUPID
BUT YOU'LL LIVE IT FOR A WHILE
oh I KNOW YOU'RE ONLY DOING THAT IRONY THING
WHEN YOU SMILE BUT DON'T SMILE...
YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT ANYONE ELSE IS
DON'T CARE WHAT THEY DO OR THEY SAY
YOU LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE IN YOUR OWN TIME
AND IN YOUR OWN DEAD INDIFFERENT WAY
yeah... in your own time...
NO YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE FABULOUS IN THINGS
BUT YOU'LL BE ONE JUST IN CASE
yeah I KNOW YOU CAN TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
YOU'RE JUST HAVING A TASTE...
DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT WHAT ANYONE ELSE IS
DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT THEY DO OR THEY SAY
yeah YOU ARE AS YOU FEEL IN YOUR OWN TIME
AND IN YOUR OWN DEAD INDIFFERENT WAY
AND YOU WILL SWEAR ON ANY LIFE BUT YOUR OWN
THAT YOU'RE HAPPY! HAPPY HOW IT ALL IS...
AT LEAST IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU THINK I SHOULD THINK
THAT YOU THINK ABOUT ANY OF THIS
ABOUT ANY OF THIS... yeah... and it's so much more than you ever need...
AND YOU WILL SWEAR ON ANY LIE BUT YOUR OWN
THAT YOU'RE HAPPY! HAPPY HOW IT ALL IS...
AT LEAST IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU THINK I SHOULD THINK
THAT YOU THINK ABOUT ANY OF THIS...
YOU'RE SO... HAPPY yeah!
YOU'RE SO... HAPPY yeah!
YOU'RE SO... HAPPY yeah!
YOU'RE SO... HAPPY yeah!
SO HAPPY... YOU COULD KILL ME!
Lyrics submitted by oofus
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anyone know where i can get this song, hating an ex right now, lyrics describe him pretty much perfectly
I own every Cure album (either in vinyl, cassette, or CD) and have not seen this on any of them. Must be an unavailable track. It could be an Easy Cure song from early on that never made it. I even checked The Glove and Siouxsie albums and did not see it.
@lokithecat It’s a song that didn’t make it on to Bloodflowers. There are some recordings of it but the vocals sound strange- almost as if a Germanic person were covering The Cure: musikguru.de/the-cure/songtext-you-re-so-happy-you-could-kill-me-332739.html
This isn't a cure song, it was misnamed on file sharing programs. It's actually by a band called pink pig or something or other.
@MurderRapeLove thecure.com/lyrics/youre-happy-kill/
This is in fact an unreleased Cure song from Bloodflowers.
There is an unreleased track called "you're so happy", but this is not it.
~i found this on someone's homepage last year. took a lot of searching on google, but it's out there. anyway, it's a demo verison that i have, and robert only sings a few of the lines from this lyric sheet. the whole version is only 1:10 long, and is lead guitar, rhythm guitar and bass. no drums. straight vocals, no effects. sung conversational till after the inst. break then loud, but not shouting.
yeah, you will swear on any lie that you're on that you're happy, happy how it all is... and at least, it's the way... that you think i should think that you think about, any of this..
oh, you're so happy... you're so happy... you could kill me... you could kill me... you could kill meee... you could kill...
by the by, it was from the bloodflowers session. ~cheers
umm no... this song is an effective marketing gimmick by a band named PINK PIG. It was purposely misnamed and sung in a sloppy robert smithesque style to ride on the cure's coat tails.
This ought to clear this whole mess up: lacunae.com/pinkpig.htm
So there is a Cure song with atleast some of these lyrics, recorded during the Bloodflower sessions, but I don't think The Cure have ever actually played it to an audience or released a demo of it or whathaveyou.
And Pink Pig isn't a band, it's a Cure tribute album by a lot of Cure fans. Sounds rather nifty to me, I wish I'd been involved, though I'd never have been able to choose which song to cover. :P
I looked this song up on limewire. I found a version with Robert singing those lines.