"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.
Bill
Bill
Bill
Bill
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Space
Rocks
Chemicals
More space
Uh, plants
Bill!
Bill!
Bill!
{Nye!}
Bill!
Bill!
{Nye!}
Bill!
Bill!
{Nye!}
Bill!
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Bill
Bill
Bill
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Space
Rocks
Chemicals
More space
Uh, plants
Bill!
Bill!
Bill!
{Nye!}
Bill!
Bill!
{Nye!}
Bill!
Bill!
{Nye!}
Bill!
Bill Nye the Science Guy
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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"
Holiday
Bee Gees
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
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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Punchline
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I am pretty sure I have heard this song before....... maybe on TV or something but I cant be sure.......
Bill Nye the Science Guy
mudhoney did this song? this changes my entire life. everything.
i knew there was something unexplainable about the awesomeness of bill nye the science guy... mudhoney!
my life is complete.
I mean look at the lyrics. They just mean so much to me.
"Space Rocks Chemicals More space Uh, plants"
God they're so fucking deep! I listen to it in my car every day! =D
I had no idea this was mudhoney! wow, this changes everything, I just have this whole new perspective on middle school science now...
wow...
Yes, Mudhoney do this because we all know Mudhoney is a hip-hop band. I got this from wikipedia...
Aside from Bill himself, one of the most memorable things about Bill Nye the Science Guy is its theme song. The bass-heavy theme is set to a Hip hop beat with Bill's name shouted throughout the duration of the song. The sound and speed fluctuations of the voice were accomplished through a vocoder and electronic pitch fluctuator. The theme song is credited to Mike Greene
last time I checked Mike Greene wasn't in Mudhoney.
well datalore, you're correct about that for the main theme shown before every episode. However, there was an episode where Mudhoney actually came out and performed the main theme their own way.
I gotta say man, if there ever was such a thing as pure unadulterated WIN in this world, this is it!
\m/ MUDHONEY! \m/
WAIT... WAIT... Mudhoney did this song? Whooaaaa. I suddenly like watching Bill Nye in science class a little more.