"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.
what was that scar situated from afar
what was that light integrated in your mind
what have you done it's too early for everyone
just wait for that sign spilling over and passed in time
come join in the last hurrah with open sores and open
jaw
find one last flaw and keep it safe and free from harm
what have you done it's too early for everyone
so smile go inside come to see there is no sign
now here we are revisiting
a time a place a whole industry well we
we promise we'll be leaving soon
we share apocalyptic views
how comforting that we feel it too
who are we to promise we'll be leaving shortly
come join in the last hurrah with open sores and open
jaw
what was that light integrated in your mind
what have you done it's too early for everyone
wait for that sign spilling over and over and
over........
what was that light integrated in your mind
what have you done it's too early for everyone
just wait for that sign spilling over and passed in time
come join in the last hurrah with open sores and open
jaw
find one last flaw and keep it safe and free from harm
what have you done it's too early for everyone
so smile go inside come to see there is no sign
now here we are revisiting
a time a place a whole industry well we
we promise we'll be leaving soon
we share apocalyptic views
how comforting that we feel it too
who are we to promise we'll be leaving shortly
come join in the last hurrah with open sores and open
jaw
what was that light integrated in your mind
what have you done it's too early for everyone
wait for that sign spilling over and over and
over........
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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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I can kinda see it being taken as an Iraq metaphor, but I take the song as being more about apocalyptic fantasies in general, and how empty they are. Each generation thinks it's the last hurrah, this is the end of the world. But then it doesn't end, and so we keep dragging ourselves along, while waiting for the next big sign to come along and promise the end. In that sense, I read the references to sores, scars and the light integrated in your mind as references to nuclear war, the flash of the bomb, the scars and sores of the aftermath, and the industry as the military industrial energy that might take us there someday, and that shares such apocalyptic views with us.
katexvi is right, it's obviously about Harry Potter.
When I was listening to this in the car, I noticed that on the side of the road, a house had been razed to the ground, leaving only charred wood and broken bits of roofing. I took this in right as the singer exclaimed, "Who are we/To promise we'll be leaving shortly?" This actually changed the meaning of the song completely for me--imagining a family standing in front of their destroyed home, burned down in an electrical fire ("what was that light", etc.) by accident ("what have you done"), and, as they stare, they feel that their life is over, and try to remember the past ("smile, go inside")--but they still have to make it somehow. "Who are we to promise we'll be leaving shortly?"
I do get a whole apocalyptic, end of the world feeling from this. Like who are we as humans to decide there is no hope, and our lives will be over anytime soon? And we as humans keep siking ourselves out, we always think it's the end, we are always preparing for the end, we can't just believe in a better future.
i have no idea what this song is about buuut i love it haha
this song is obviously about harry potter
I just want to comment on the title of the song, "Well Thought out Twinkles". I'm in a cooperative collective, and at our weekly operational meetings, when we agree with someone we do this thing called giving a "twinkle" or "twinkling" in which we silently waggle our fingers if we agree with something. It's supposed to save time and help in keeping people from talking out of turn. but yeah we "Twinkle" stuff all the time. so that's what i thought of when i saw the title of this song.
I have no real idea what this song's about, but I love it anyway. Here's one idea: SSPU is something of a throwback/revival of late80s early90s alt rock, and they're also fairly anti-commercial. In that setting, you could interpret the second verse as 'revisiting' the music 'industry' of that time, and no they won't necessarily be leaving it soon. Well that's what I hope it means because I need to hear more of this music from this band.
find one last flaw and keep it safe and free from harm
...this is the central idea of the song to me, it's the central theme of the band too--revisiting the past and denying the modern mainstream music industry. the flaw is really something to be cherished because it's natural and it's human, but we're constantly trying to progress and rid everything of flaws, even ourselves with plastic surgery and all. this is a testament to not having to be perfect and holding onto that not-so-perfectness that makes us who we are.
mega, that's beautiful. i think you caught the essence of what a unique band like this really is, which is to not only take the song and interpret it to what you think it means, but i really think most of the bands' lyrics were written with the hope that people will take any instance they can find in their personal life, or at least something they feel strongly about, and apply the song to it as closely as possible. brian aubert has said that the name silversun pickups is a state of mind. he didn't go into it any further, because i think he wants people to come up with their own idea of what a silversun pickup is. of course, then again he's explained different, far more bizarre meanings behind the name, so i could totally be wrong on this, and thus making my theory of their songs hold MUCH less water.