"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 could have died
Maybe I should have died
When I saw you walk inside
And as you shut the door
I put my eye back on the floor
When all I really wanted
Was to look some more
Does a wallflower play
Or does a wallflower stay on his wall?
You see, I live alone
But I've made my happy home
All my furniture is centered around my phone
I'm waiting for a call
My imaginary friends and all
Those who would never let me
Be taken by the fall
Does a wallflower know
When it's time he outgrow his wall?
Tell me does a wallflower know
When it's about time he outgrow his wall?
Time and time and only time has feelings for me
Maybe, maybe Father Time feels sorry for me
I knew when there was a time when I knew it all
Why don't I ever leave my wall?
Why don't I ever leave my wall?
Why don't I ever leave me wall?
Please, I don't ever leave my wall
You know that siren's getting louder
And these people are starting to crowd in on me
(All I smell and taste is garlic and gunpowder)
I shot the bad guy dead
But he got me in the head
With the girl of my dreams
She's mentioning to me how much I bled
Where does a wallflower go
When their flowers get pulled from this wall?
Though she says I'm brave and bold
She knows a flower cannot hold up a wall
I can't hold up this wall any longer
Any longer
Because all I have is time and time and time
My only friend, time and time
Please some more time
And I think it's over
I think it's over
Maybe I should have died
When I saw you walk inside
And as you shut the door
I put my eye back on the floor
When all I really wanted
Was to look some more
Does a wallflower play
Or does a wallflower stay on his wall?
You see, I live alone
But I've made my happy home
All my furniture is centered around my phone
I'm waiting for a call
My imaginary friends and all
Those who would never let me
Be taken by the fall
Does a wallflower know
When it's time he outgrow his wall?
Tell me does a wallflower know
When it's about time he outgrow his wall?
Time and time and only time has feelings for me
Maybe, maybe Father Time feels sorry for me
I knew when there was a time when I knew it all
Why don't I ever leave my wall?
Why don't I ever leave my wall?
Why don't I ever leave me wall?
Please, I don't ever leave my wall
You know that siren's getting louder
And these people are starting to crowd in on me
(All I smell and taste is garlic and gunpowder)
I shot the bad guy dead
But he got me in the head
With the girl of my dreams
She's mentioning to me how much I bled
Where does a wallflower go
When their flowers get pulled from this wall?
Though she says I'm brave and bold
She knows a flower cannot hold up a wall
I can't hold up this wall any longer
Any longer
Because all I have is time and time and time
My only friend, time and time
Please some more time
And I think it's over
I think it's over
Lyrics submitted by magicwombat
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the first time i heard this sonih ad just ended a year relationship. the part "all my furniture is centered around my phone" made me realize how so many times in life ppl will sit around a wait for the phone to ring. which is pathetic. u need to make things happen. And how this song builds, and then he brings it back down in the end, amazing. smart lyrics. i love this band.
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first off this song is the shit, it is me and my girl's favorite song (one of the few we can agree on) but to me it means that he saw a girl walking into where ever he was but was so timid to go up and say anything, and in the second verse he is describing how lonley he really is. maybe on the rebound of a bad relationship. i think he is being sarcastic when he says "Imaginary friends" and taken by the fall. because he didnt have anyone to bring him back to a happy state. but with the last two verses i think he finally go's out to speak to this girl and something dramatic happens and he dies, but that's just me. love to hear other opinions
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Wow I love this song....I listened to it when I was like 10-years-old...I'm 13 now... =] I love the old stuff.
I use to ponder every time I hear this song back then of the things about what will going to happen in my life 10 years from now cause I was like exactly the guy who's in that song who's eternally sad all the time! I don't know what's wrong but I think I am a wallflower