"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.
Why can't we be friends (4x)
I seen ya I seen ya I seen ya 'round for a long long time
I really I really I really remember when you drank my wine
Why can't we be friends (4x)
I seen ya I seen ya I seen ya walkin' down in Chinatown
I called ya I called ya I called but you did not look around
I pay my I pay my I pay my money to the welfare line
I seen ya I seen ya I seen ya standing in it everytime
Why can't we be friends (4x)
The color the color the color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as as long as long as we can live in harmony
I kinda I kinda I kinda like to be the president
And I could and I could and I could show you how your money's spent
Why can't we be friends (4x)
Sometimes I don't speak right
But did I know what I was talking about
I know you're working for the CIA
They wouldn't have you in the mafia
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Why can't we be friends (4x)
Why can't we be friends (4x)
Why can't we be friends (4x)
I seen ya I seen ya I seen ya 'round for a long long time
I really I really I really remember when you drank my wine
Why can't we be friends (4x)
I seen ya I seen ya I seen ya walkin' down in Chinatown
I called ya I called ya I called but you did not look around
I pay my I pay my I pay my money to the welfare line
I seen ya I seen ya I seen ya standing in it everytime
Why can't we be friends (4x)
The color the color the color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as as long as long as we can live in harmony
I kinda I kinda I kinda like to be the president
And I could and I could and I could show you how your money's spent
Why can't we be friends (4x)
Sometimes I don't speak right
But did I know what I was talking about
I know you're working for the CIA
They wouldn't have you in the mafia
Why can't we be friends (4x)
Why can't we be friends (4x)
Why can't we be friends (4x)
Why can't we be friends (4x)
Why can't we be friends (4x)
Why can't we be friends (4x)
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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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Why can't we be friends...???
maybe... hmm... why can't we be friends?
maybe she is a trained assassin out to get whoevers singing. or even the other way round. whoevers singing is on a mission to kill this person but theyve fallen in love and he dont wanna kill her any more but has to
i reckon its something to do with the CIA bit, but maybe thats just because ive just been reading Scorpia and Ark Angel
ive only ever heard the reel big fish cover of this but i dont think its no different :s this song is cool!
this is War's song, but why aren't they even on this site? c'mon.
i think the song's about racism. some about white people at the same social level as the blacks singing it. they are almost the same, but the whites think they're better for some reason.
also you can be racist in the cia but not the mafia. and both are corrupt.
blacks and whites have been together for a long long time. beginning of time or something.
it's a stretch but with the wine thing maybe they're saying that jesus was black and there were whites following him and drinking his miraculous wine.
I think it has something to do with a couple, who were serioulsy in love, then, they broke up, and the guy still likes her. or something along inbetweenmolecules words.
Not their best work...
hehe me and my band played this at our school leavers gig. all the emos and jocks started hugging each other i loved it!
To be fair, this song mostly concerns itself with the topic of beef, and beef in society. There are many stigma and social taboos attached to beef, but mostly it just says that beef is rad and a brother. Also, what the fuck is Smash Mouth? How is it relevant to bovine meat?
I think the song about two people (both men), who run into each other very often in different kinds of situations, but despite that they still didn't become friends and (maybe) didn't even talk to each other.