"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.
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Feel Good Hit of the Summer Lyrics as written by Nick Oliveri Josh Homme
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"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.
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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 must admit, I am somewhat puzzled by the lyrics of this song. The subject matter seems extremely vague, the message unclear. What can they be trying to say? I think I detect elements of Kierkegaard, and some evocative allusions to the closing passage of James Joyce's masterful short story 'The Dead', but beyond these trivial points the central thesis of the song escapes me.
The lyrics in themself don't say anything but the way of expressing them has irony involved. It works as to piss off uptight people and manages to be a kickass song in the process.
This song fucking rocks. I find the title kinda funny, coz you know when some shitty pop group release a shitty pop song music critics will call it the "feel good hit of the summer"? I think this song takes the piss out of that and uses the term "feel good hit", as in getting a fucking good high, not some shitty pop song.
as soon as you listen, this song is stimulating your subconscious mind "go take all these drugs now" b4 you know it your fucked lying on the floor "what the fuck happened?!" or maybe not
in an interview, Josh said this song was for a social experiment, to see how people respond. a lot of radio stations didn't play this song much the song because it was supporting drugs. but anti-drug campaigns played this song at their seminars, and other stories but yeah, that's the meaning go tell all your friends.
youtube.com/watch<br /> <br /> <br /> nah.
this song is about drug use and he lists his "7 deadly sins" and most our ours as well...all of these drugs are fun and deserve this song
C-C-C-C-C-Cocaine!
Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol
C-C-C-C-C-Cocaine
Well, since it's the feel good HIT of the summer, and the word "hit" is singular, i guess he's suggesting all these drugs at once?
Not sure that's such a great idea. Mixing alcohol vicodin or valium could be fine, but all three would probably be pretty bad. Alcohol and pot makes you sick pretty easily. Alcohol and cocaine makes you sick pretty easily. Cocaine and pills makes you sick pretty easily. Ecstasy + anything will pretty much kill you. You might be safer just doing one at a time.
This is just a good, no frills, no BS song.For those people who have nothing better to do than to waste their money gettin wasted: ). I think more people should listen to QOTSA. They're definitely underated and overlooked.
the new album "songs for the deaf" is beyond good. It makes Rated R look average (which it isn't)..
ROCK ON QOTSA!
actually, you can mix ecstasy with many other drugs and you won't die.
Ecstasy+pot=good times Ecstasy+ketamine=also good times Ecstasy+acid=i've heard that's great times!