"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.
Color in sky, prussian blue
Scarlet fleece changes hue
Crimson ball sinks from view
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)
Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la
Color sky, havana lake
Color sky, rose carmethene
Alizarin crimson
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)
Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la
Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All our race proud and free
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)
Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
Carmine, carmine
Scarlet fleece changes hue
Crimson ball sinks from view
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)
Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la
Color sky, havana lake
Color sky, rose carmethene
Alizarin crimson
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)
Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la
Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All our race proud and free
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love like)
Wear your love like heaven (wear your love)
Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (wear my love)
Carmine, carmine
Lyrics submitted by perfectandslow, edited by MusicFan555, Loraqs
Wear Your Love Like Heaven Lyrics as written by Donovan Leitch
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HEAVEN....not heavan, geeeee look it up!
Since editing the lyrics on here is not working for me here are the correct lyrics:
Color in sky, prussian blue Scarlet fleece changes hue Crimson ball sinks from view Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like) Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like) Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love)
Lord, kiss me once more Fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more That I may, that I may Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like) Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love) La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la
Color sky, havana lake Color sky, rose carmethene Alizarin crimson Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like) Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like) Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love)
Lord, kiss me once more Fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more That I may, that I may Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like) Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love) La-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la
Cannot believe what I see All I have wished for will be All our race proud and free Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like) Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love like) Wear your love like heaven (Wear your love)
Lord, kiss me once more Fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more That I may, that I may Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like) Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love) Carmine Carmine
i love that simpsons episode but i dont like the way it makes pot looks bad by tripping you out and shit.
thats what lsd and shrooms do not pot
The drug effects description is very likely true. And I'll admit I don't know much about the group Donovan (in fact I FIRST heard this song in that very simpsons episode talked about previously). But I'll take a stab and add my two cents.
Notice the singer talks about a bunch of different colors, and in the end he says "all our race..." ? I think he is making overtures towards the unity of all mankind. Of all races.
"Wear my love like heaven" - The heavans look down on all mankind, regardless of race or color. So if you wear your love LIKE that, you will love and respect all humanity. And while "All our race" could refer to one particulatr ethnicity, to me it sounds like he's talking about all the HUMAN race. Everyon being free and proud of who they are.
Just my take, maybe I'm being too optomistic...
"by Tony_P 5000 on 08-10-2005 @ 01:24:11 PM
He's actually on about taking marajuana and this is the effect that it has on him he goes into a world full of colours . "
hahahahahahahahahaa yeah okay. i wish pot did that.
It's "heaven", not "heavan". Jesus.
He's actually on about taking marajuana and this is the effect that it has on him he goes into a world full of colours .
Since when does pot change into colors around you? lol too much
Has anyone seen the simpsons episode where homer gets the medicinal marijuana? all the colors and shit when hes triping out and floats off to work. they have this song in the backround.... Once when i was bikeing home this summer from smoking weed when the sun was seting made it look like that and i started singing the song. i really do like donovan
those are some pretty interesting thoughts TsingTao.
Btw Donovan is just one person Donovan Leitch, and if your not familiar with him, you should definitely check out some of his other stuff
My parents were out of town so I lent my spare key to a friend so we could use it as a home base. I ended up not getting home one night, and apparently he and another friend got completely baked and came back to my room, where I'd left the CD player and lavalamp on. On the way home, the guest of my friend (an aquaintance of mine) had a flashback to a bad trip... they lay down on my bed, and apparently Donovan mellowed him the hell out. Donovan is my messiah.