"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 aren't you kind to me?
You could so easily
Take me in your arms and see
A donkey
A beast for thee
If you had half a mind
Leave worldly things behind
Devote to being kind
You to me
A beast for thee
Loving some way you choose
God's plans can easy bruise
One bone and blood mass we fuse
And I can be
A beast for thee
I will toil for years and years
Give you muscle, tone, and tears
Overcome and flay all fears
Leaving me
A beast for thee
And at home on Wednesday morn
Astride my horny horde
You'll be in glory born
And I will a beast for thee
Happily a beast for thee
Quietly a beast for thee
Endlessly a beast for thee
You could so easily
Take me in your arms and see
A donkey
A beast for thee
If you had half a mind
Leave worldly things behind
Devote to being kind
You to me
A beast for thee
Loving some way you choose
God's plans can easy bruise
One bone and blood mass we fuse
And I can be
A beast for thee
I will toil for years and years
Give you muscle, tone, and tears
Overcome and flay all fears
Leaving me
A beast for thee
And at home on Wednesday morn
Astride my horny horde
You'll be in glory born
And I will a beast for thee
Happily a beast for thee
Quietly a beast for thee
Endlessly a beast for thee
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Ugh. This song just kills me. A couple of corrections though. It's "Why AREN'T you kind to me?" This is the key to the rest of the lyrics. It's not a love song, but a torch song. It's a faulted, fucked up man (the kind we all know too well) but whose heart is completely at the mercy of this other person.
The other correction is "Overcome and FLAY all fears."
I hear it as "Love, in some way, you choose". Can't really make sense of the line as it appears here. And "God's plan" is singular, but that's just nit picking.
I think this song is incredibly moving. It's a song of love and devotion from a man who's aching with desire for a woman who doesn't seem to return it. His secret and most sacred hope is that she'll give him the chance to prove how well he could love her. He's talking about sex but it's symbolic of his deeper feelings. I think it shows how well Oldham understands women. What could be more profoundly moving than a man declaring how hard and relentlessly he'd try to please you - a beast for thee. I'd submit.
"If you had half a mind Leave worldly things behind Devote to being kind"
So TRUE. beauty
To me this is the song of a male submissive to his partner. He will do anything and everything for her regardless of how she treats him. This will not end happily!
Ok, this is going to seem like kind of a juvenile interpretation, but anyway. This song appears to be a guy saying to a girl 'Maybe you wouldnt be such a bitch to me if you knew how big my dick is', like I said, it seems juvenile, but is it beyond the realms of possibility?, after all we're talking about a man who wrote a song called 'your dick is hanging out and you have come in your hair'
Okay, I think you got it right more or less. <br /> But I definitely don't like your wording. <br /> Maybe a better way to put it will be "I can be a great lover for you, if you will be kind with me".<br /> Anyhow, I think BPB is saying it much better than you and me.