"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.
Like a ghost don't need a key
Your best friend I've come to be
Please don't think of getting up for me
You don't even need to speak
When I've been here for just one day
You'll already miss me if I go away
So close the blinds and shut the door
You won't need other friends anymore
Oh don't leave home, oh don't leave home
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
If you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
And I arrived when you were weak
I'll make you weaker, like a child
Now all your love you give to me
When your heart is all I need
Oh don't leave home, oh don't leave home
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
And if you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
Oh how quiet, quiet the world can be
When it's just you and little me
Everything is clear, and everything is new
So you won't be leaving, will you?
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
And if you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
'Cause I will be your safety
And I will be your safety
I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
Your best friend I've come to be
Please don't think of getting up for me
You don't even need to speak
When I've been here for just one day
You'll already miss me if I go away
So close the blinds and shut the door
You won't need other friends anymore
Oh don't leave home, oh don't leave home
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
If you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
And I arrived when you were weak
I'll make you weaker, like a child
Now all your love you give to me
When your heart is all I need
Oh don't leave home, oh don't leave home
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
And if you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
Oh how quiet, quiet the world can be
When it's just you and little me
Everything is clear, and everything is new
So you won't be leaving, will you?
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
And if you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
'Cause I will be your safety
And I will be your safety
I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
Lyrics submitted by CutieTrish3
Don't Leave Home Lyrics as written by Rollo Armstrong Dido Armstrong
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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i've never thought about drug addictions when i listened to this song but it makes so much sense to me. i don't think dido could be THAT possessive of a person...but a drug could be and she knew it... ahhh where'd you find that kind of info, browneyed?
Its definitely about addiction. Dido clears it up for everyone, and also apologizes if they've used in at their wedding coz it's "definitely the wrong song", before performing the song live at Brixton in 2005.