"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.
Fall out, fall through, fall apart
The endless cycle once I start
Plan B, plan c, watch it go
And crumble into broken hopes
All around I fall apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
Mend it all, mend it all
Mend it all, mend it all
All I've torn, all I've run to the ground
Broken down, come mend it all.
Days are slipping through my hands
I'm holding on in sinking sand
And to make it worse, I've made a mess
Can you make any sense of this.
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm falling apart and can't you see I'm
The endless cycle once I start
Plan B, plan c, watch it go
And crumble into broken hopes
All around I fall apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
Mend it all, mend it all
Mend it all, mend it all
All I've torn, all I've run to the ground
Broken down, come mend it all.
Days are slipping through my hands
I'm holding on in sinking sand
And to make it worse, I've made a mess
Can you make any sense of this.
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm all apart and can't you see I'm
All around I'm falling apart and can't you see I'm
Lyrics submitted by redgrindle
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"Can You make any sense of this"? :) I've been asking that all day.
wow i love this song...first comment..woah
i think this song is about a man who has done a lot of wrong things in his life and want to change/fix the things that are broken and what he has messed up in
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I found this song the same way WishingForYou did, i like this song, it remindes me of something U2 would sing, though im not sure thats exactly something to be proud of. I love the guitar right before the chorus, its...awesome
Ditto to the two people before me. This iTunes freebie turned me on like no other. I immediately bought the album. Anyways, my friend thinks this song's about abortion (plan a failed...), but I disagree with him. I think it's just about making mistakes and the consequences of that. Now he's trying to figure out how to fix it all.
Quote UnstuckinTime: it remindes me of something U2 would sing
Sorry but this is definetly mutemath style (typical drums, sometimes very hard/loud) to my opinion. U2 makes entirely different music..
Beautiful song though. I especially like the parts with "All around I fall apart". Beautiful combination of lyrics and music.