"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.
Yellow skies, I can see you in yellow skies
See you again, I see you again
In my dreams, in my dreams
In my dreams, in my dreams
Morning light, I remember morning light
Outside my door, I'll see you no more
In my dreams, in my dreams
In my dreams, in my dreams
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Responsible, responsible, responsible, responsible
Black and white
It's become so black and white
So insecure, you're so insecure
That's what you are, That's what you are
That's what you are, That's what you are
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Responsible, responsible, responsible, responsible
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Responsible, responsible, responsible, responsible
See you again, I see you again
In my dreams, in my dreams
In my dreams, in my dreams
Morning light, I remember morning light
Outside my door, I'll see you no more
In my dreams, in my dreams
In my dreams, in my dreams
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Responsible, responsible, responsible, responsible
Black and white
It's become so black and white
So insecure, you're so insecure
That's what you are, That's what you are
That's what you are, That's what you are
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Responsible, responsible, responsible, responsible
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Forever, forever, I'll be forever holding you
Responsible, responsible, responsible, responsible
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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this song makes me dance.
I don't dance when I hear this song because that would make me a danger to society (you'd have to see me to believe it...I broke a ceiling lamp the other day doing just that). BUT, I do love this song. First of all, the music rocks. Then the vocals (the ones without words) kick in, and everythings perfect. Then O'Riordan starts yelling these lines, and it only gets better. Energy is what it's all about.
This song seems to me, airplane-nut that I am, that Dolores is just describing "flying away" from a relationship. This is evident in the title and at the end where it sounds like there's a propeller running. Flying has always been a symbol of being carefree, and talking about an ex while just flying away is just her saying, I'm not going to trouble myself with someone like you anymore
this one is such a great revenge song without you even knowing it at first, the lyrics seem so pure at first listen, and they are but...
then you realize how shes over his/her bullshit and shes going to hold them responsible, this song always makes me feel so good, and yeah i like to dance to it too:) i cant believe there are not more comments, this is one of the best cran. songs ever!
Ah, yes, this is one of their best songs. The lyrics are surprising, since at the beginning you only hear 'Forever Forever I'll be Forever holding you' and only at the very end of the chorus she adds 'Responsible' which changes the meaning into the exactly opposite.
And yes, it makes you want to dance :)
I think this song is about death. "in my dreams" thats the only place where she sees him again. Maybe it was suicide, cuz she says "Responsible" and "insecure" and you know how "yellow" it is to commit suicide. And also I have found that "Yellow sky" is a movie... And the subtitle I couldn't find in the English title, but in my German translation it would be: "Yellow Sky - Lady of the dead city". That's my interpretation but I may be wrong. I might as well be sooooooo wrong :D. But does anyone agree?? See ya ;)
I just find this song so sad to listen to. Particularly with the 'ow ow ow' sections and 'ow-oo, ow-oo' it's almost like a child who has been hurt or a wolf howling in pain. That - to me - hints at such a painful loss, that feeling of something just being ripped away from you. Then there's the overall feeling of the song, musically. On the surface it's a lively, rebellious sound (in a teenage sense). Looking at it on a deeper level, however, it's a feeling of someone's anger and bitterness exploding outward.
An image always comes to my mind of a woman lashing out in rage, laying into someone close by, most likely the person who has died, who is holding her and trying to console her as she is also crying uncontrollably. Almost as if he's saying "There, There, it'll be alright" but she is just sobbing, raging and pleading.
I’ve always thought that this song was about our relationship that is ended and blah blah blah.
But 24 years after the song is released, listening to it for so long, it has occurred to me that it might be about yellow skies from fire and the war - always caused by insecure little man who have access to power. And she’ll forever hold them responsible for the forever yellow skies.