"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.
he waits for the greater silence
as every day goes faster
a cipher he knows too well
of killing himself by looking closer
you got so much love locked up inside you
just waiting to come out
you'll heal the world in spite of itself
and make a better one
you say you're a veteran
he waits for the reign of his tyrants
to tire of their games, god save him
he'll be the one to fracture their fractus castles
and scatter their tiers on the pavement
you've got so much love locked up inside you
bursting at the seams
you'll kill the world in spite of itself
and make a better one
you say you're a veteran
caspian can wait sometimes
he'll be in the way sometimes
immortalized with every anguish we yield
this is our christening
nobody's listening
caspian can wait sometimes
he'll be in the way sometimes
immortalized with every anguish we sell
this is our chirstening
nobody's listening
as every day goes faster
a cipher he knows too well
of killing himself by looking closer
you got so much love locked up inside you
just waiting to come out
you'll heal the world in spite of itself
and make a better one
you say you're a veteran
he waits for the reign of his tyrants
to tire of their games, god save him
he'll be the one to fracture their fractus castles
and scatter their tiers on the pavement
you've got so much love locked up inside you
bursting at the seams
you'll kill the world in spite of itself
and make a better one
you say you're a veteran
caspian can wait sometimes
he'll be in the way sometimes
immortalized with every anguish we yield
this is our christening
nobody's listening
caspian can wait sometimes
he'll be in the way sometimes
immortalized with every anguish we sell
this is our chirstening
nobody's listening
Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28
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This isn't a song about love. All of The Velvet Teen's song seem to be about love. It is about a person, a person who thinks alot, a person who ikes to rant, possibly about politics. A person that witnesses people around him with 4.0 GPAs but who do not transcend rote thinking. He wants to make a difference and share his thoughts, but who will listen? What will it do. So he will go on thinking, and go on hoping, and go on saving the world over a over again in his mind. He will win vast battles of the courtroom in the shower, and he will win admiration in his head. Possible he doesn't have the want to share his opinions, maybe he has witnessed people do certain acts and join certain groups to be a "resume whore" to be a number in another equation of society. All in all this person is waiting, he is waiting for his chance, and he will know it when he gets it.
I believe this is what the song means i felt a strong connection to my own life....
I don't really understand the meaning of the song, but I love it. :)
I love it too, I'm too lazy to analyse the meaning, I just enjoy it
caspian is the saviour of the world! "he'll be the one to fracture their fractus castles and scatter their tiers on the pavement" and "you'll kill the world in spite of itself and make a better one"
i'm not sure it really means anything, this song. it's got beautiful lyrics and a wonderful keyboard part. i absolutely love it. i have an ex called caspian and love the lyric "caspian can wait sometimes, he'll be in the way sometimes".
I believe Caspian is the savior of the world.. If so, this song makes perfect sense.
You wnat to be saved, but you don't want to be saved.
I've thought and thought about the name Caspian, and I don't know why they picked it. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the sea or Prince Caspian from The Chronicles of Narnia.
That said, my interpretion is this: it's about love. People are afraid of hurting themselves by getting too close to other people ("killing himself by looking closer"), so they build up fortresses (castles) and go around acting like tyrants because they're locking their emotions away in self-defense. But Love (in the form of Caspian, the love veteran?) breaks all fortresses and heals/remakes the world that is trying so hard to ward Love off.
Sometimes I like to just listen to the Velvet Teen without thinking too hard about what they're singing.
Caspian is the narrator or the song, the Ultimate form of himself in their personal view of themself
gyspy.. i couldnt agree with you more.