"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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Dude, it's a parody!
Eminem's just making fun of all those songs out there that are like "I think I love you baby, I think I love you too..." etc. He's basically saying that they're full of shit and guys who say those things are most likey paying their girl lip service to score.
He's also saying (between the lines) that girls who buy this BS are stupid; he's not slamming females in general.
It's strange how intellegent his lyrics can be.
im sure a lot of people are gonna get pissed off by this song but im a feminist, and i think this song is kind of sad. it says a lot about him. His mother was a drug addict, and it sounds like his wife was a cheating drug addict, so of course he doesn't trust women! Doesn't sound like he's met one that is worth his time. If a female came out with a song like this no one would blink an eye, but its true, women can be just as cruel as men. I wish the best for him, hopefully someday he'll meet someone who really cares about him, so he wont have to put up anymore walls. Eminem is awesome.
yea...even tho i am a gurl...i think that they screw ppl over too much...so do guys, but still....love this song...ur right Em is sexy as hell in it...love the rot in pieces part...i don't think is song is bout 8 mile, but i'm not sure...& he talked bout Mariah cuz he actually dated 4 a short while...peace!
he is so hot, i would do him in a second. I never knew he was a man of such intense passion. he probably had a boner the whoe time he was rapping this song! still I love this song
No one's touched on the meaning yet... And this is the irony, he's refering to the bitches in the song as shallow people in the world. Read the song again, and you'll see it... I got a laugh out of the comments on here though, all the women saying they love him, et cetera. He's talking about you kind of people in the song...
Regardless, though, I like the beat and the fact that Eminem is not reserved in his songs. Anyone's who's been with a shallow or slutty girl may not feel this passionate but they can definately relate to an extent.
i really can't understand why everyone can't lighten the hell up and laugh at this song, cause i think it's pretty funny. I am a female, but unlike many people who've already posted, listening to this song does not make me want to jump Eminem's bones, nor does it make me want to cause him bodily harm. how can you get pissed at him for speaking the truth? yeah there are women out there who are sluts and liars and only want to hook up with him because he's famous or rich or whatever. more power to him for calling them on it. does it make him sexist if its true????!!!!! Furthermore, the majority of the insults in the song are directed to the following types of women: Sluts, Hos, and Bitches. I don't fall into any of those categories, so maybe that's why i don't take it so personally. also, guys are liars and sluts too, we all know that. if a chick sang this song would you all be jumping on her calling her sexist?? probably not, but there's the double standard.
tazzy: he said you want what you can't have, don't touch what you can't grab, end up with two back hands... to back hand someone generally means to bitch slap them as far as i know, so he probably means you can't have me, don't touch me or you're gonna get smacked that's what i get out of it anyway.
Blackberry: you are so right, i thought the same thing when i saw Kill Avrils name
desperacidea (sorry if i spelled that wrong) don't worry,: i would run the other way as fast as i could. lol
Very easy... The girl is too messed up in the head and looking for a guy she will never find. He comes around and is the best thing she will ever get and she still acts like a dumb ho. He finally realizes this and he tells her there is no chance he can be her superman (who is the stongest and best) Sorry Susie but it is the truth.
The thing is, Lois never asked for a Superman, and she's a pretty good reporter, and is suspecting that Sssssuperman is one who pushed her off the cliff before saving her. Earth is not Hell. The Illuminati lets this go on so that Flyboys realize THEY are actually the ones who need Jesus for judging others when they themselves bit the apple of sin, some of them even thinking they are Godly when they forget the command to Love/Obey God may just include not practicing Hindu-ism, Buddhism, and New Age. It is basically the plot of The Grapes of Wrath ,i.e. God's wrath, except GOD IS NOT DYING. Ask Jesus and in Jesus's name if flying is good. Ask it to stop in the name of Jesus, and it will! That is telling, because demons stop in the name of Jesus. Hmmmm.....
Plot is EAST of EDEN, not Grapes of Wrath, oops, except God isn't dying, and Superman has to change as well.
A lot of things in this song are funny (yeah, the anthrax lyric is "pure eminem" as someone said), but it's also a very melancholy and touching song... The thing I love about it (and about a lot of Eminem's music), is it isn't nearly so mindless as some of the rap you hear where they're just pure "sex fuck bitch whores ima gangsta woo drugs" There are actual meanings and stories behind his lyrics, and real feelings, and the sounds within the songs give his music a huge touch of personality. (This is partially in response to the person who disagrees with this music btw) Even if some people might take the music "seriously," it is unfortunately because they're too stupid to listen to it closely, and that is something that is unavoidable with any medium (and I don't think that a stable person will actually imitate what they hear in this music anyway). As far as bad treatment of women in his music, yes, it is unfortunate, but it isn't bad treatment of women, and a lot of his songs are really mocking more than anything. (And he does seem to love his daughter and care for her greatly, which implies that it is more that he's jaded, than that he's just inherently an asshole, especially what with bitterness at his mother and his wife, etc etc) Anyway, regarding this song specifically: it isn't just about hating on women, really. At least, I think it's more about encountering all these fake, whorish women (and perhaps he just attracts them, or it's partially because of his outlook, but nonetheless). It's basically the outpouring of a very very hurt individual who has put a barrier. The lyric "maybe I'll love you one day, maybe we'll some day grow" is very important in this, as well as the lyrics when the girls are talking about being unfazed, in which they're portrayed as trying to prove they can be trusted, even though they more likely just want to hump the guy (and again, vice versa ... eminem obviously feels the same way) It's just a statement of his state of mind saying that relationship(s?) have fucked him over and he's just too sick of it to care anymore - for now.
Ack, sorry, putting another post. It's because I'm sleepy and been listening to this song for like the last two hours so it keeps making me think ....
It really makes me think of Eminem just as a person, and it makes me feel so sincerely sorry for him that I wish I could just go and be like "I WON'T PRETEND TO BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND BUT I WILL BE YOUR FRIEND AND HELP YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND JUST BE NICE AND NOT AN EVIL BITCH REALLY" and I just hope, as the person above said, that he'll find an honest person who really cares to love and be loved by
fuck the new stuff..this song kicks major ass. he ryhmes like no other. fav part's gotta be "don't put out, I'll put you out. Wont get out, I'll push you out" or just the whole song.
haha, superman ain't savin shit, you can jump on shady's dick.
i wanna do it to this song haha. ;D