"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.
So ambition cut you down
Ain't a love as perfect
Everybody knows it
Something drove you down
Something as good
Something new
Somebody good
Our ambition cuts you down
There's not a love that's perfect
But I, I live in hope
Somebody good
Somebody new
Something as good
Something that's mine
Ain't a love that's perfect
Everybody knows it
Ambition cuts us down
Ain't a love as perfect
Everybody knows it
Something drove you down
Something as good
Something new
Somebody good
Our ambition cuts you down
There's not a love that's perfect
But I, I live in hope
Somebody good
Somebody new
Something as good
Something that's mine
Ain't a love that's perfect
Everybody knows it
Ambition cuts us down
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Ambition Lyrics as written by Henry Lee Porter Brandon Tavares Williams
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"Somebody new Something as good Something that's mine Ain't a love that's perfect Everybody knows it Ambition cuts us down"
anybody else get chills when he sings that?
i agree with InHerHand. everyone wants that perfect "someone", but everyone knows that there's never going to be a perfect someone.
i love it.
I do. I most certainly do. wonderful
I'm thinking this song is about someone who is ambitious but in love, and has a difficult time choosing between the two, and what is more important to that someone.
NO COMMENTS?! What's up with that?!
This song is so beyond good. Its amazing. Its sweeping ambiance, and the distorted vocals are great.
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I adore this song, it makes me cry like a baby.
I think this song is simply about compromise, how you can't have everything you want and must sacrifice certain things to obtain them. If you want 'Somebody Good', you have to settle for 'Something as good', and not what you initially strived to obtain, and vice versa.
chilled as they come, can be put on repeat and will send you into a harmonious semi-concious sleep
I get the chilled fuzzies whenever I hear it.
Belongs in the top five greatest Dove offerings.
It's stunning. It really is. It's the standout from Some Cities and for some bizarre reason it always has me thinking of Sam Tyler from Life on Mars :/
Maybe this song is about trying to find somebody good to be in your life but then when you do ... your ambition just cuts you down and you can't help but let them go. i really i love this song it's beautiful and sad all at once.
The sound of this song is so interesting in comparison to the title. You'd expect a song called 'Ambition' to sound a bit more...ambitious! But what we hear is regret, melancholy, and defeat. This song is not about the 'thrill of the chase', so to speak, but the consequences of getting exactly what it is that we want.
The 'you' in this song has discovered the down side to chasing after his or her worldly goals. While striving for the fleeting contentments that our societies provide us, we easily forget about the things that truly matter in this life.
To the narrator of this song, what matters most is love. Due to his ambitions he has lost touch with the love in his own heart. He fears that he may never find it again, though he still searches and remains hopeful that he will find it again.
This song is a beautiful, (but achingly sad,) warning to the listener to hold firmly to the meaningful things we always had, and not pursue the things that are easily lost.
Ambition cuts you down.