"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.
The sun's a strange light
Nothing grows right anymore
Scars on every stalk
Whose mouth should I use to talk?
The force that marks the routine
Temperature, whatever degrees
Create the bad thing
And lay our heads in it
Now it's hard to punch the clock
On a site where production's stopped
I'm just a warehouse filled with junk
Some somethings for some someones
Tasking time with tracking eye
Tectonic shifts one nerve at a time
I lay my head in it
A hundred plans to foritfy
Beige concrete goes on for miles
Hiding cities under it
Fill my mouth with non-mouth spit
There was a light at the window
A light under the door
But, it's not there anymore
(Come on over
Get your shoes on
Get your feet on, baby
Come on over)
Nothing grows right anymore
Scars on every stalk
Whose mouth should I use to talk?
The force that marks the routine
Temperature, whatever degrees
Create the bad thing
And lay our heads in it
Now it's hard to punch the clock
On a site where production's stopped
I'm just a warehouse filled with junk
Some somethings for some someones
Tasking time with tracking eye
Tectonic shifts one nerve at a time
I lay my head in it
A hundred plans to foritfy
Beige concrete goes on for miles
Hiding cities under it
Fill my mouth with non-mouth spit
There was a light at the window
A light under the door
But, it's not there anymore
(Come on over
Get your shoes on
Get your feet on, baby
Come on over)
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death, edited by soundsgayimin
Strangelight Lyrics as written by Brian Eno
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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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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The entire song is about a guy living in a post-apocalyptic world caused by nuclear war:
"the sun's a strange light nothing grows right anymore scars on every stalk" "whose mouth should i use to talk?" "temperature whatever degrees create the bad thing "
The effect of nuclear war throws plenty of dirt and radiation into the atmosphere distorting the sky and the image of the sun. Plants don't grow normally for obvious reason. Neither do people, people exposed to intense amounts of radiation may become deformed and as such could develop a second mouth. That line could have far more unfortunate, and morbid, implications though. Another effect of fallout is a distorted wind and heat patterns, changes, and fluctuations The last point is unclear to me.
"it's hard to punch the clock on the site where production stopped i'm just a warehouse filled with junk"
The world is pretty messed up, many sites are sure to be abandoned. The second line could mean many things. He could simply be saying that his continued existence is a waste. Or more complexly, he could be saying that his memories of the old world, his stored items in a sense, is a waste since it won't do him any good to have it since he can't change what has happened.
"i lay my head in it a hundred plans to fortify beige concrete foes on for miles"
Beige is a very pale brown... probably describing the color the buildings now have. And someone hopes to possibly rebuild cities.
"(come on over get your shoes on put your feet on baby come on over)"
Maybe a call to get others to work rebuilding the world. The somber and depressed tone of the outro doesn't go for a show of confidence but they must try.
Just what I'm getting out of this song.