"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.
You cannot hide now
I'll find you somehow
Together we can find new ways to drown
All I really want is
A moment of your time
To grant
To give
To make you one with mine
You'll fill this empty space and
I will
Be your outlet
We'll plant
We'll reap
And meet in cruel descent
Together we can find new ways to drown
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your shadow is my comfort 'til the end of time
All I really want is
Someone to share with me
This treasure
This gift
This unceasing agony
How could you ever turn back now when
Our failure's so complete
So cold
So far
So dark in here with me
Together we can find new ways to drown
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your shadow is my comfort 'til the end of time
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your sadness is my reason to forget what lies inside
There must be something, something else
Yeah, something, something else
Yeah, something, something else
There must be something else than you
You cannot hide now
I'll find you somehow
Together we can find new ways to drown
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your shadow is my comfort 'til the end of time
Your shadow is my comfort 'til the end of time
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your sadness is my reason to forget what lies inside
I'll find you somehow
Together we can find new ways to drown
All I really want is
A moment of your time
To grant
To give
To make you one with mine
You'll fill this empty space and
I will
Be your outlet
We'll plant
We'll reap
And meet in cruel descent
Together we can find new ways to drown
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your shadow is my comfort 'til the end of time
All I really want is
Someone to share with me
This treasure
This gift
This unceasing agony
How could you ever turn back now when
Our failure's so complete
So cold
So far
So dark in here with me
Together we can find new ways to drown
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your shadow is my comfort 'til the end of time
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your sadness is my reason to forget what lies inside
There must be something, something else
Yeah, something, something else
Yeah, something, something else
There must be something else than you
You cannot hide now
I'll find you somehow
Together we can find new ways to drown
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your shadow is my comfort 'til the end of time
Your shadow is my comfort 'til the end of time
You know
You're mine
This madness suits me fine
Your sadness is my reason to forget what lies inside
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Have you read the Book of Esther? Or the Song of Songs? Neither of them mentions God and they're IN THE BIBLE.
Song of Songs is kind of under speculation as to what the meaning is, though. Some say it's an allegory in reference to God's love for us. Some people can really get into it from that perspective. I know several Christian women who love that take on it. God IS Love, including all kinds of love.<br /> <br /> As for Esther, actually, it's actually a story all about God and Him using us in the positions and circumstances we are in. Mordecai said to Esther, "And who knows but that you have come to a royal position for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:16) It's also mentioned that she, Mordecai, and the other Jews would "fast and pray" for her choice to go to the king (Esther 4:16). It may not specify God, but it's pretty obvious to whom.<br /> Also, it kind of goes to show that even when God's not talking, He can still move pretty powerfully. That's a bit of a tough concept for anyone to grasp and I'm not sure if you understand but I hope that some day, you do.<br /> Around this time God wasn't speakin much with the exception of a message from Joel shortly after Esther's story (or so biblical scholars say) so He wasn't exactly as loud as He was in the books of Genesis, Exodus or 1 & 2 Samuel.<br /> <br /> <br /> here's my take on it in reference to the song and those books of the Bible: sometimes you have to dig deeper to find God in the midst of it all. He used Esther's position to save a whole nation.<br /> <br /> sorry to preach, but I just couldn't pass this by without putting my two cents in... more like 2 dollar coins but w/e.