"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.
(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in
I got up so tight I couldn't unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah yeah oh-yeah
I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in
I got up so tight I couldn't unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)
Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah yeah oh-yeah
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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.
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The song was written by Mickey Newsbury in the late 60s and refers to an acid trip. Kenny Rogers' version is said to have been Jimi Hendrix's favourite song at the time.
you don't wake up from acid trips! and finding your mind in a brown paper bag is drinking to cope!
This song is dope man! I'm thinkin he's leavin town and about to hit up an acid binge but either way theres definitely some drug references in there.
whoa...
first of all defunct is an idiot. you wanna know what this song is about? watch the Big Lebowski. me gusta Kennith
The Big Lebowski does offer plenty of insight into this song.
This song is about a middle-aged alcoholic who, one day, experiences an acid flashback, and when he is in between trips he "drops in" to make sure everything was alright, if only for a few seconds and then the trippyness ensues.
Personally i think this song is about depression. "I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in"
Its probably caused by some major disappointment. Something that was important to him came crushing down, he failed to achieve his goals or something like that. "I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high, I tore my mind on a jagged sky"
This event made him depressed, he tried to snap out of it, maybe hang on to something else that made him forget (supposedly alcohol or drugs). "I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in"
He was at the "bottom of the pit", he finally realized what is happening to him. "I got up so tight I couldn't unwind I saw so much I broke my mind"
The last verse is about getting out of his depression and carrying on with his life. He realized that his disappointment isn't the "end of his world" "Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign"
He refers to Memphis as a "state of depression". He leaves it and carries on with his life.
Of course its just my interpretation, it can be about something totally different. Once i heard its about experiencing LSD so... :)
awesome song, brilliant lyrics ("woke up this morning with the sundown shining in", how cool is that? haha), "The Big Lebowski"'s the best movie ever 'nuff said
Having seen the big lebowski I can say with certainty that this song is obviously about vietnam...everything traces back to 'nam lol...jk wicked song though, I never knew kenny rogers sang songs like this, I'd like to hear more of the same, any suggestions?