"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.
Moon covered determined to find
To find my place of hiding
Try to detach
Try to decrease
To make it easier on me
Despise myself for what you've done
Sent me back into my world
Hold yourself cause no one will
I'll make it easier
Now I have managed to be the one
To be the victim without the gun
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Stay alert cause I'm obsessed
Surely I can't be depressed
Could I be read if I was see-through,
Or would you just read my spine
Could I be read if I was see-through
Could I be read if I was see-through
Could I be read if I was see through,
Or would you just read my spine
Now I have managed to be the one
To be the victim without the gun
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same
Feel the same
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
Hold yourself cause no one will
I'll be there to take the spill
Cleanse your soul
Change the tide
And ride the wave back into me
Be the one
Without the gun
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same
Feel the same
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
To find my place of hiding
Try to detach
Try to decrease
To make it easier on me
Despise myself for what you've done
Sent me back into my world
Hold yourself cause no one will
I'll make it easier
Now I have managed to be the one
To be the victim without the gun
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Stay alert cause I'm obsessed
Surely I can't be depressed
Could I be read if I was see-through,
Or would you just read my spine
Could I be read if I was see-through
Could I be read if I was see-through
Could I be read if I was see through,
Or would you just read my spine
Now I have managed to be the one
To be the victim without the gun
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same
Feel the same
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
Hold yourself cause no one will
I'll be there to take the spill
Cleanse your soul
Change the tide
And ride the wave back into me
Be the one
Without the gun
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
Now you've come
Do you feel the same
Feel the same
Now you've come
Do you feel the same anyway?
Lyrics submitted by Roxychix507
Do You Feel the Same Lyrics as written by Daniel Johns
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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yeah i totally love this song.. and i love the guitar solo in it too. i love the lyrics.. i really like these lines "Stay alert cause I'm obsessed. Surely I can't be depressed" and "Hold yourself 'cause no-one will. I'll be there to take the spill. Cleanse your soul, change the tide. And ride the wave back here to me".. does anyone know what this song is about?