"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.
I thought it was strange when all this shot into my mind driving.
It's weird how this enclosed space makes me think so clearly...so free!
I wish
all hours were so relaxing.
Thinking of the next noise... making up the
next noise. Scream loud, loud, loud, loud. Static intoxication, sing
this lovely violin song. Beat this bottle on a wall. Scream, scream,
scream. The baby cries. Record the noise. It all makes sense...we're
capable of beauty. Through sounds which make one cringe. The dogs only
hear us now. For the first time tears came to my eyes while I was
listening. Noise brings so many things...make my tingling skin freeze.
Turn me on, make me laugh, shoot the can, shut the door, pour your glass,
rape scene scream, car crash bash, black cat splat.
A silent death, a silent scream...You can't follow me, you sing along to
nothing.
It's weird how this enclosed space makes me think so clearly...so free!
I wish
all hours were so relaxing.
Thinking of the next noise... making up the
next noise. Scream loud, loud, loud, loud. Static intoxication, sing
this lovely violin song. Beat this bottle on a wall. Scream, scream,
scream. The baby cries. Record the noise. It all makes sense...we're
capable of beauty. Through sounds which make one cringe. The dogs only
hear us now. For the first time tears came to my eyes while I was
listening. Noise brings so many things...make my tingling skin freeze.
Turn me on, make me laugh, shoot the can, shut the door, pour your glass,
rape scene scream, car crash bash, black cat splat.
A silent death, a silent scream...You can't follow me, you sing along to
nothing.
Lyrics submitted by Juddc3891, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Ad a Dglgmut Lyrics as written by Mark Edward Castillo Jason Schofield King
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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This song is a dedication to “noise”. Noise can be anything in our natural environment. It’s the same concept that the musical “Stomp” speaks of: music can become beautiful from anything in nature. Heavy music to the normal person is nothing but an annoyance… but to those who really listen to it understand how amazing and beautiful songs can become no matter how “noisy” they seem. The first section of the song I don’t actually sing any lyrics… I just scream (noise) random bullshit… that influenced the last line (you can’t follow me, you sing along to nothing). The song title is actually a random message our old guitarist nick wrote in my phone… and being a made up word I thought it would fit nicely with the idea of noise. -tommy
Pretty much what everyone said about the song being about the concept of noise is correct. But really the whole song, I believe goes deeper then that.
"It all makes sense, we're capable of beauty. It all makes sense, we're capable of beauty. Through sounds which makes one cringe. The dogs only hear us now."
This whole part is explaining how even through the nonsense and noise they are still capable of writing something emotional and stands out above everything else. As you can see from previous comments, people mostly talk about this melodic part because of it standing out. The beauty is that without that part in the song, what would you have made you remember this piece as a whole? The people who enjoy BTBAM's music(the dogs) are the only ones who pick up on this beautiful part, because they can get by "the sounds that make one cringe."
I'm a dog.
well i was told ad a dglgmut stood for nothing it was messed up text tommy got and at the end i thought explained it u cant follow me u sing along to nothing cuz he isnt really saying anything
@alx_XD always wondered what the title was in reference too. Not sure how true your comment is, but very plausible ... and fits the theme of the song well I feel.
BTBAM's lyrics are not particularly great, but I can always appreciate the message of their songs. This is exactly what I want my friends to understand about metal and so-called "noise", that it's not just random nonsense, it's got direction and it can be beautiful. The instrumental break in the middle of this song gave me goosebumps first time I heard it.
I have no fucking idea what this song means, but I must say that it has the most beautiful guitar break I have ever heard right in the middle. Its cool when a math metal guitarist can actually play something with melody. Rock on.
I read somewhere that this song stands for noise/nonsense music that attracts a lot of fans, and the beauty of it all. Most importantly the fact that people don't give it a chance because it might hurt their head or something. It takes a lot of time and talent to make music like this, trust me. People should just appreciate it and stop judging so harshly.
"It all makes sense, we're capable of beauty." this is a great song, masterpiece album.
This song is about what maybe be loud and nonsensical to one can be beauty and amazing to someone else But yeah i defently agree with kapitol, masterpiece album
another great song by btbam
cant wait for their new cd (selkies is the greatest song ive ever heard)
I wish it would say what Tommy's saying in the first minute of this song, but I guess he's just randomly screaming words... very good song
"btbam=awesome", Tommy isn't saying anything in the first minute, it is just random gibberish that he's screaming. It goes along with the theme of the song, how noise can be beautiful.