"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.
One and one and one is two
All this and more you said was true
And if you'd left me ground to stand on
I'd run so far away from you
What do you do with a remainder?
You round it up or round it down
And if you're scared by what you're left with
Destroy the answer that you've found
You were the one
When the day had begun
The sun was shining on us
Blinding me such
So that I couldn't see
There was a hole beneath me
And then you watched me fall
With no expression at all
There is an absolute zero
But you won't find it on your own
Only someone else can show you nothing
And leave you with a gaping hole
You were the one
When the day had begun
The sun was shining on us
Blinding me such
So that I couldn't see
There was a hole beneath me
And then you watched me fall
With no expression at all
You were the one
When the storm rolled in
The sky was grey like your heart
With no color at all
I don't know you like this
You're as reckless as wind
And I could not predict
Just the way this would end
All this and more you said was true
And if you'd left me ground to stand on
I'd run so far away from you
What do you do with a remainder?
You round it up or round it down
And if you're scared by what you're left with
Destroy the answer that you've found
You were the one
When the day had begun
The sun was shining on us
Blinding me such
So that I couldn't see
There was a hole beneath me
And then you watched me fall
With no expression at all
There is an absolute zero
But you won't find it on your own
Only someone else can show you nothing
And leave you with a gaping hole
You were the one
When the day had begun
The sun was shining on us
Blinding me such
So that I couldn't see
There was a hole beneath me
And then you watched me fall
With no expression at all
You were the one
When the storm rolled in
The sky was grey like your heart
With no color at all
I don't know you like this
You're as reckless as wind
And I could not predict
Just the way this would end
Lyrics submitted by TakeTheNoiseInMyHead
The Remainder Lyrics as written by Corin Lisa Tucker Carrie Rachel Brownstein
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Love this song, powerful lyrics. I think its about a relationship that seemed to be going good but out of no where one person hurts the other without even caring, came as a complete shock
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This song is about being cheated on. "One and one and one is two." Carrie must have written this about being cheated on, right before she moved to Portland from Olympia.
@rosemariex actually, its about carrie cheating on corin<br />
@rosemariex Louie, read Carrie's book, "Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl." One More Hour makes it sound like Carrie cheated, but she never did. The timing is totally wrong, too - they hadn't dated for like 5 years at that point.