"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.
A ni ni ni ni
A ni ni ni ni
A ni ni ni ni
A ni ni ni ni
Sick of all the shit that's keeping me down
If your dead from the waist down
It's easy staying down
I never thought about it twice
But you do pay the price
It ain't your weekly cash
That feeds my mum the rice
Yo, don't be calling me desperate
When I'm knocking on the door
Every wall you build
I'll knock it down to the floor
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me
Hands up! (a ni ni ni ni)
Guns out! (a ni ni ni ni)
Represent (a ni ni ni ni)
The world town (a ni ni ni ni)[2x]
Hands up!
Guns out!
Represent
The world town,
Represent The world town[2x]
Look at what you did, you done it before
Every little dollar just keeps me down more
I never had you on my side, bubbling on my side
Why they tell me different when they make me explodified
Yo, don't be calling me desperate
When I'm knocking on the door
Every wall you build
I'll knock it down to the floor
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me[2x]
Hands up! (a ni ni ni ni)
Guns out! (a ni ni ni ni)
Represent (a ni ni ni ni)
The world town (a ni ni ni ni)[2x]
Hands up!
Guns out!
Represent
The world town, Represent The World Town, Represent The World
Hands up! (a ni ni ni ni)
Guns out! (a ni ni ni ni)
Represent (a ni ni ni ni)
The world town (a ni ni ni ni)[2x]
Hands up! (a ni ni ni ni)
Guns out! (a ni ni ni ni)
Represent (a ni ni ni ni)
The world town (a ni ni ni ni)[2x]
Hands up!
Guns out!
Represent
The world town, Represent The World Town, Represent The World ,Represent The World
A ni ni ni ni
A ni ni ni ni
A ni ni ni ni
Sick of all the shit that's keeping me down
If your dead from the waist down
It's easy staying down
I never thought about it twice
But you do pay the price
It ain't your weekly cash
That feeds my mum the rice
Yo, don't be calling me desperate
When I'm knocking on the door
Every wall you build
I'll knock it down to the floor
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me
Hands up! (a ni ni ni ni)
Guns out! (a ni ni ni ni)
Represent (a ni ni ni ni)
The world town (a ni ni ni ni)[2x]
Hands up!
Guns out!
Represent
The world town,
Represent The world town[2x]
Look at what you did, you done it before
Every little dollar just keeps me down more
I never had you on my side, bubbling on my side
Why they tell me different when they make me explodified
Yo, don't be calling me desperate
When I'm knocking on the door
Every wall you build
I'll knock it down to the floor
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me
See me see me bubbling quietly
See me see me acting like you ain't met me[2x]
Hands up! (a ni ni ni ni)
Guns out! (a ni ni ni ni)
Represent (a ni ni ni ni)
The world town (a ni ni ni ni)[2x]
Hands up!
Guns out!
Represent
The world town, Represent The World Town, Represent The World
Hands up! (a ni ni ni ni)
Guns out! (a ni ni ni ni)
Represent (a ni ni ni ni)
The world town (a ni ni ni ni)[2x]
Hands up! (a ni ni ni ni)
Guns out! (a ni ni ni ni)
Represent (a ni ni ni ni)
The world town (a ni ni ni ni)[2x]
Hands up!
Guns out!
Represent
The world town, Represent The World Town, Represent The World ,Represent The World
Lyrics submitted by lalunacreciente
World Town Lyrics as written by Writer Unknown Dave Taylor
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics powered by LyricFind
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
"It was a TV project about child soldiers. The subject matter was something I was really interested in. At the same time, Liberia is a devastated place. They probably need [the help] more than anyone else on the planet right now. So I went to Liberia and played ‘World Town’ to these African kids. "
I think this is about child soldiers. M.I.A said in an interview, "When I wrote that song I felt like such an outsider. This was a personal, weird thing—I hoped [it would] translate, and it does, and it did. "
M.I.A. has truly explored problems in the world others have never touched,...or even if they have touched the issues they never made it so raw and personal. Even though shes not from Liberia she feels the pain and wants to "discuss" her passion for the issue through her "fuck y'all this what i mutha fuck'n think" music. She bashes whats goin down in the most beautiful way.
Yeah, I feel t he same way. People are so arrogant because they assume shes for what she sings about...Yeah...she sings about the issues to get them out there. She doesnt approve of them. People are just dumb shits yanno? <br />
loooove it
i love this song
what does she refer to as "the world town"? killstar: is it liberia?
x
This song is fucking awesome.
"world town" could be any 3rd world country/town fighting for economic or governmental independence. Again, alot of the lyrics are reminiscent of Sri Lankan war propaganda. The Liberation Tigers in Sri Lanka have been accused of using 10 year old boys to fight for their cause.
killstar and nxdf seem to have it down pat.
In the thank you section of Kala's booklet she says some thing like I thank the person who told said the world is my town and my religion is to do good. Something like that.
i think shes prob talking bout ppl hu work for the western world like factory workers... how we know about them, and what happens but we dont do anything to help them. we keep them down... "it aint ur weekly price that feeds my mumthe rice" might be saying that us donating a few dollars to charities isnt doing much good, and the people arnt surviving off our small charity, its their own wits, etc