"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.
premonition
Only on the surface now I'm toying with you you do not notice a thing
In minus frozen love
in taciturn you, with taciturn love, a taciturn discomfort
in taciturn me, with taciturn love, a taciturn scar
you are the eighteenth one you didn't notice me supported by kindness
this love made frozen
in quiet you, with quiet love, kill the quiet pleasure
in quiet me, with quiet love, quiet....
I cannot change, I cannot return, taciturn love
quietly, quietly, we two entangled
my inner heart's reticence, my inner heart's quiet, striking towards the heart
my inner heart's reticence, my inner heart's quiet, even if I try to toy with your heart
from sometime ago I had noticed you but
to be only by your side is all I need
I held you close at the end
I don't know if this will become the end
Only on the surface now I'm toying with you you do not notice a thing
In minus frozen love
in taciturn you, with taciturn love, a taciturn discomfort
in taciturn me, with taciturn love, a taciturn scar
you are the eighteenth one you didn't notice me supported by kindness
this love made frozen
in quiet you, with quiet love, kill the quiet pleasure
in quiet me, with quiet love, quiet....
I cannot change, I cannot return, taciturn love
quietly, quietly, we two entangled
my inner heart's reticence, my inner heart's quiet, striking towards the heart
my inner heart's reticence, my inner heart's quiet, even if I try to toy with your heart
from sometime ago I had noticed you but
to be only by your side is all I need
I held you close at the end
I don't know if this will become the end
Lyrics submitted by Shinigami
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im really loving this song right now, i can relate to it at the moment, my situation being from the point of view of kyo as he sings this. kinda sad but oh well, thats how it goes lol
btw, in the song when he speaks instead of sings, what is he saying? i know the translation but id like to know it in japanese cause one of my friends wants to say the spoken words while other friends sing along. its a long-car-trip thing, we sing dir en grey