"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.
Empty fields move me so much more then rooms filled up with friends
The way the trees look dead
Reminds me that there's more to life then living
Maybe giving ups not bad, but part of letting go of you
If I surrender to this feeling maybe all the aches
And pains will go and I can close my eyes
Never again to have them open till I bleed out all I've been
I don't want to be alone no more
No more
So take this razor, sign your name across my wrists
So everyone will know who left me like this
Show me all my scars scars run deep
Maybe mine are not to forget the times that we've had
Empty fields move me so much more then rooms filled up with friends
The way the trees look dead
Remind that there's more to life then living
Maybe giving ups not bad, but part of letting go of you
So take this razor, sign your name across my wrists
So everyone will know who left me like this
Show me all my scars run deep
Maybe mine are not to forget the times we've had
Never wait another second I have wasted so much time
And I have wasted so much time
So much time
So much time
So take this razor, sign your name across my wrists
So everyone will know who left me like this
Show me all my scars run deep
The way the trees look dead
Reminds me that there's more to life then living
Maybe giving ups not bad, but part of letting go of you
If I surrender to this feeling maybe all the aches
And pains will go and I can close my eyes
Never again to have them open till I bleed out all I've been
I don't want to be alone no more
No more
So take this razor, sign your name across my wrists
So everyone will know who left me like this
Show me all my scars scars run deep
Maybe mine are not to forget the times that we've had
Empty fields move me so much more then rooms filled up with friends
The way the trees look dead
Remind that there's more to life then living
Maybe giving ups not bad, but part of letting go of you
So take this razor, sign your name across my wrists
So everyone will know who left me like this
Show me all my scars run deep
Maybe mine are not to forget the times we've had
Never wait another second I have wasted so much time
And I have wasted so much time
So much time
So much time
So take this razor, sign your name across my wrists
So everyone will know who left me like this
Show me all my scars run deep
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x, edited by bayside311
A Synonym for Acquiesce Lyrics as written by Anthony S Raneri Andrew Robert Elderbaum
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
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Great version of a great song,
so take this razor, sign your name accross my wrists so everyone will know who left me like this - awesome line... pretty good band as well
Another Bayside song to fix... I hate when people don't look over it before they post it... it's not "Show me all my scars run deep maybe mine are not to..." It's "Sew me up my scars run deep, a reminder not to..." It's not "never wait another second..." It's "I'll never waste another second"
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I agree with sensespunchkidsfail if you're guna put a song up as good as a synonym for acquiesce get it right. And for anyone who doesn't know, acquiesce means to give in willingly
wow whoever put these lyrics up seriously fucked them up
" a reminder not to forget the times that we had"
fucking amazing song. i love this band.
this song amazes me. its about mending yourself up after a failed relationship. there is definately a bitter, heartbreak stage that this person is in. "so take this razor, sign your name across my wrist so everyone will know who left me like this". umm, thats kinda an amazing line! you can really feel the sadness and passion put forth in this one. this dude is f-ing depressed and cant get over it, as much as he wants to.
STunningly great song!!!!! This fuckin band owns!
This person is depressed, and they just want to be alone. They are thinking about suicide. If they take the path of suicide ( or just cutting), they believe everything will be okay and everything will leave. They just want their one person with them. The chorus..wow it speaks for itself...Wow someone seriously screwed up this song!... But this person feels like they have just wasted part of their life to this person who left them in the dumps. This song hits home....hard.
i agree with the above post! ^^