"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.
Caught by the fuzz
Well I was, still on a buzz
In the back of the van
With my head in my hands
Just like a bad dream
I was only fifteen
If only my brother could be here now
He'd get me out, he'd sort me out alright
I knew I should have stayed at home tonight
Locked in the cell, feeling unwell
I talked to a man
He said it's better to tell
Who sold you the blow
Well it was no one I know
If only you'd tell us we'd let you go
We'll make it up for you, my son
So tell us what you know
We'll make you wish you'd stayed at home tonight
Here comes my mum, well she
She knows what I've done
Just tell 'em the truth
You know where it's from
You've blackened our name
Well you, you should be ashamed
If only your father could see you now
He'd breakdown and he'd throw you out for sure
I never should have let you out tonight
Tonight (tonight), tonight (tonight)
Tonight (tonight), tonight (tonight)
Tonight (tonight), tonight (tonight)
Tonight (tonight), tonight
Well I was, still on a buzz
In the back of the van
With my head in my hands
Just like a bad dream
I was only fifteen
If only my brother could be here now
He'd get me out, he'd sort me out alright
I knew I should have stayed at home tonight
Locked in the cell, feeling unwell
I talked to a man
He said it's better to tell
Who sold you the blow
Well it was no one I know
If only you'd tell us we'd let you go
We'll make it up for you, my son
So tell us what you know
We'll make you wish you'd stayed at home tonight
Here comes my mum, well she
She knows what I've done
Just tell 'em the truth
You know where it's from
You've blackened our name
Well you, you should be ashamed
If only your father could see you now
He'd breakdown and he'd throw you out for sure
I never should have let you out tonight
Tonight (tonight), tonight (tonight)
Tonight (tonight), tonight (tonight)
Tonight (tonight), tonight (tonight)
Tonight (tonight), tonight
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jeeezzz.... he's blatently signing about cocaine, "who sold you the BLOW", sorry SamJG, u best go top yourself
This song is about exactly what it says - he was arrested with a small amount of weed and, as he was from a somewhat middle-class family his parents were shocked and appalled. Creepily enough, exactly the same thing happened to me when I was 15. And the Police call weed 'blow'. That's what they called it when I was in this situation. It's one of those things that some people just say differently. The term 'blow' for cocaine is generally an American term anyway
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It should be "Well I was still on a buzz".
Brilliant song.
If anyone doesn't understand this song, top yourself, its rather obvious.
The song's about being caught with weed when you're 15...ah memories.
Most Supergrass songs are about teenage years and having fun, this one is no exception.
You should top yourself then you smart ass prick because 'blow' is cocaine not weed. Dumb fuck
isnt blow heroin?
I doubt its heroin but who knows, I always assumed it was either weed or crack.
Supergrass website says it's narcotics - you choose!
I go to the school that supergrass went to wheatly park.
I have been informed by a "certain" ex-pupil that this song is about when he was kicked out of school for doing cocaine in the school toliets (nick-named "the van").
And yes most supergrass songs are about their childhood times.
yeah 15 does seem young for cocaine, even for rock stars