"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.
Falling in
Six hours from morning
And falling in
Sink me off to, sleep
So come along within, ahh, uhh
I think it's time to let me in
I'm tipping my foot very close to the edge, edge, ahh
Just a few more of your seconds
And I need for me to repair
To neatly stand and spin it around in my head, yeah, ahh
Can I please have some silence
Can I please have some silence (yeah)
Can I please have some silence
How 'bout some space
Almost
Ready to drift now
And I feel myself slipping inside you
Just a little bit further
Before something drags me back
So close, I thought I nearly had you there
I'm so tired
I gotta sleep
I wanna wake up from a dream
I've had enough
I need to sleep
I want to wake up without you, here
So come along within, ahh, uhh
I think it's time to let me in
I'm tipping my foot very close to the edge, edge, ahh
Just a few more of your seconds
And I need for me to repair
To neatly stand and spin it around in my head, yeah, ahh
Can I please have some silence
Can I please have some silence (yeah)
Can I please have some silence
How bout some space
Could I please, have some silence
Could I have some space
Could I have some space
Can I please have some silence
Six hours from morning
And falling in
Sink me off to, sleep
So come along within, ahh, uhh
I think it's time to let me in
I'm tipping my foot very close to the edge, edge, ahh
Just a few more of your seconds
And I need for me to repair
To neatly stand and spin it around in my head, yeah, ahh
Can I please have some silence
Can I please have some silence (yeah)
Can I please have some silence
How 'bout some space
Almost
Ready to drift now
And I feel myself slipping inside you
Just a little bit further
Before something drags me back
So close, I thought I nearly had you there
I'm so tired
I gotta sleep
I wanna wake up from a dream
I've had enough
I need to sleep
I want to wake up without you, here
So come along within, ahh, uhh
I think it's time to let me in
I'm tipping my foot very close to the edge, edge, ahh
Just a few more of your seconds
And I need for me to repair
To neatly stand and spin it around in my head, yeah, ahh
Can I please have some silence
Can I please have some silence (yeah)
Can I please have some silence
How bout some space
Could I please, have some silence
Could I have some space
Could I have some space
Can I please have some silence
Lyrics submitted by emotionalxangela
Mindcircus Lyrics as written by Joseph Wisternoff Imogen Jennifer Heap
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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this person (A) is in love with another person (B). but person B is giving all sorts of mix signal. so person A is just going through this "mindcircus". A thinks he/she is getting so close to B at times ("I'm tipping my foot very close to the edge"). But at times, A wants to let B go so A won't be in this state of confusion any longer ("Almost, ready to drift now"). But then "something drags me[A] back" in. Confusion/frustrations continues...
I always thought this song could be about a night of drugs and the desire for it to come to an end and just go to sleep. I remember at the end of a night of too much fun trying to get my mind to stop whirling so I could settle down enough and go to sleep.
Hmm I never thought of this song as a love song. I always assumed it was about drugs. It seems she is using drugs to help her capture a certain feeling that she is relating to sleep, but is unable to do so.
Drugs, or even pure insomnia creates a solid mindcircus in your head. Even when not depressed, the feeling of too many people in my head prevents me from sleeping. I know it really first hand, its someone who knows me wrote it :)