"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.
It's a trick of my mind
Two faces bathing in the screen light
She's so soft and warm in my arms
I tune it into the scene
My hands are resting on her shoulders
When we're dancing away for a while
Oh, we're moving, we're falling
We step into the fire
By the hour of the wolf in a midnight dream
There's no reason to hurry
Just start the brand-new story
Set it alight, we're head over heels in love
Head over heels
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once-forbidden places
We'll go for a while
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once-forbidden places
We'll go for a while
It's the definite show
Our shadows resting in the moonlight
It's so clear and bright in your eyes
It's the touch of your sighs
My lips are resting on your shoulder
When we're moving so soft and slow
We need the ecstasy, the jealousy
The comedy of love
Like the Cary Grants and Kellys once before
Give me more tragedy, more harmony
And fantasy, my dear
And set it alight, just starting that satellite
Set it alight
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once-forbidden places
We'll go for a while
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once-forbidden places
We'll go for a while
Two faces bathing in the screen light
She's so soft and warm in my arms
I tune it into the scene
My hands are resting on her shoulders
When we're dancing away for a while
Oh, we're moving, we're falling
We step into the fire
By the hour of the wolf in a midnight dream
There's no reason to hurry
Just start the brand-new story
Set it alight, we're head over heels in love
Head over heels
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once-forbidden places
We'll go for a while
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once-forbidden places
We'll go for a while
It's the definite show
Our shadows resting in the moonlight
It's so clear and bright in your eyes
It's the touch of your sighs
My lips are resting on your shoulder
When we're moving so soft and slow
We need the ecstasy, the jealousy
The comedy of love
Like the Cary Grants and Kellys once before
Give me more tragedy, more harmony
And fantasy, my dear
And set it alight, just starting that satellite
Set it alight
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once-forbidden places
We'll go for a while
The ringing of your laughter
It sounds like a melody
To once-forbidden places
We'll go for a while
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I love the rhythm of this song!!!
"phantasy, my love" Is actually "Fantasy, my dear"
@gabedachink Obviously "fantasy" is the proper spelling, but whenever I've seen these lyrics written out, it has always been "phantasy" - I think it might have been spelled that way in the liner notes for the album.
I think it's about when love is so good that it almost feels like magic. I think it’s that he is trying to describe. The melody is really cool, and the voice. I always get a picture of a couple hugging each other and dancing in purple moonlight, In love.
Any one has a coment on the line "by the hour of the wolf in a midnight dream"? THe only reference i find is to a 1960's very messed up Horror film called hour of the wolf (that would explaint he bird man and lady in the hat in the video, both demons in the movie, if what i read is right?) But the song is to sweet to refer to anythisg so dark as that? or is it? "Faces behind the screen light?" is that a movie reference?
A bit late to reply perhaps, but the hour of the wolf is not necessarily a film reference. It's an expression that refers to the time each night just before dawn, usually between 3 and 5. Thusly, the sentence becomes two time different references, a play with words. A bit more lighthearted than Bergmans film.
It's a metaphor for movies. "...Two faces bathed in screenlight" "...I tune it into the scene..." "...just start that brand new story..." "Set it alight"