Fast Cars Lyrics

Lyric discussion by tacobandit 

Cover art for Fast Cars lyrics by Aesop Rock

"Never mind the bollocks. Like every other week these hipster tabloids jumping on and off my sex pistol's bullets." Like every other week he spins the bottle. Like every other week these fucking fanzines forget if they spit or swallow. "

Sounds like a response to critics. He seems to be expressing contempt for being judged and evaluated by publications he considers trash, whether the evaluation is positive or negative.. Almost as though he resents the limited fame he's had to this point.

"Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow, cuz my inner greed to feed your hate for loving us is hostile."

Here he reveals a since of a greedy/hostile motive to continue fueling the sorts of critics that love to bash his fanbase.

"Fortunate for me it coincides with what comes natural, so the mongrels that I run with turn the 'fuck you's into fast food. "

Turns the critiques/critics into a cheap and easy meal? Maybe this is a 'get that dirt off you sholder' sentiment.

"Like a little freak sick of the 3 o'clock bully knuckle dust, nursing his last shiner, finds the shoebox in his mother's truck. Tomorrow's extra curricular punching bag will finger daddy's widow maker out a brown lunch bag."

Obviously, the shoebox contains a gun aka 'widow maker.' And we're now on the subject of bullied kids shooting up their schools.

"This is where the hunch back snake oil peddlers stuck under the burgundy sky of spaghetti westerns tend to bubble up. Weathermen huddle up. Today the son of one too many 'yes sir's kings his checkers, watch the double jump."

LOL, blame the movies/media! It's the spaghetti westerns, not the Marilyn Manson!! haha that line is a clever stab at the media fear mongerers. That checkers analogy for the shooter is pure genius.. Especially that click click sound yeu hear for the double jump.

"Back with a platter of hot leeches that'll drink up-every bloody drop down to the last diseases, "

And now he takes a stab at the news media, and how they handle these stories, and feed off the bloodshed - over-reporting these stories to boost ratings, neglecting to aknowledge that a lot of the culprits seem to have done it for the notoriety.. Obviously Cho (virginia tech shooter) was looking for notoriety; he sent a frickin package to NBC!

"it's A-E-S-O-P-R-O-C-K, the peak twister. Defender of the son of Vaughn Bode's Cheech Wizard."

haha, what a dork! Ya'll know Cheech Wizard right? An underground comic of a Wizard that looks like a mushroom, it's weird shit.

"I used to pray the treatments got easier with my aging like serotonin weekends were merely comedic hazing. Wrong, "

'serotonin weekends' seems to be referencing parties with an abundance of drugs.. 'were merely comedic hazing, wrong' could mean.... like looking back with 20/20 hindsight that such a way to spend your weekends was not the best way to experience life and earn your way into the fraternity of life, or whatever...

"but along his travels located the key to world peace: kill every motherfucker but me."

I absolutely love this line! It shows the hypocracy behind starting wars for freedom/peace, which ties us back into the first verse of the song that's primarily about soldiers. But there's also an obvious analogy too to the school shooter as well. Perhaps hinting at the wider theme of the song that puts tho two verses together. Violence of human nature?

"You cool with that? Cool. Bang. You? Cool. Hang. You? No? Uh... bang? Cool. Sorry, dog, rules is rules. And too long have I followed yours."

LOL! Executing the key to world peace here! Love it! The first two people I guess wanted to die anyway, the next one, well haha sorry!

"I'm trying to get them years back, and walk through every cipher with dynamite in a beer hat."

And as though the song just wasn't amazingly cool already this last line is just straight dope. 'walk through every cipher' I think means he's commenting about the style of his raps, infact using a metaphor of 'dynamite in a beer hat' to describe his raps... Hiding something serious/explosive in the party's paraphernalia!