"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.
Somewhere tonight.
Inside of me.
A smile's distant memory.
Covering up my face.
Landed on my knees.
So you can never see
The darkest part of me
Shutting my eyes,
I'm dying inside...
I've lost myself
A thousand times.
But i can remain
In spite of the pain.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time.
They are part of me
These words that never heal.
They still remind me
That all of this is real.
Hiding from the world,
Lost in my disease.
So you can never see
The darkest side of me.
Shutting my eyes,
I'm dying inside...
I've lost myself
A thousand times.
But i can remain
In spite of the pain.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time.
I can feel it...
I can feel it...
... Just for a second I want you to see
I hide myself from you
I hide myself from you
I feel so infected from these memories.
I hide myself from you.
I hide myself from you.
(from you, from you...)
Shutting my eyes,
I'm dying inside...
I've lost myself
A thousand times.
But i can remain
In spite of the pain.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time.
Just one last time.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time.
Just one last time.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time
Just one last time.
I'll cross this line
Just one last...
Just one last time
Inside of me.
A smile's distant memory.
Covering up my face.
Landed on my knees.
So you can never see
The darkest part of me
Shutting my eyes,
I'm dying inside...
I've lost myself
A thousand times.
But i can remain
In spite of the pain.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time.
They are part of me
These words that never heal.
They still remind me
That all of this is real.
Hiding from the world,
Lost in my disease.
So you can never see
The darkest side of me.
Shutting my eyes,
I'm dying inside...
I've lost myself
A thousand times.
But i can remain
In spite of the pain.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time.
I can feel it...
I can feel it...
... Just for a second I want you to see
I hide myself from you
I hide myself from you
I feel so infected from these memories.
I hide myself from you.
I hide myself from you.
(from you, from you...)
Shutting my eyes,
I'm dying inside...
I've lost myself
A thousand times.
But i can remain
In spite of the pain.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time.
Just one last time.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time.
Just one last time.
I'll cross this line
Just one last time
Just one last time.
I'll cross this line
Just one last...
Just one last time
Lyrics submitted by finalpoet
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No Surprises
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Page
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There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
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Hey, it does fit! Nice thought!
i think perhaps this song means; he's moving (or trying to move on). He's moving away or trying to move on from someone he can no longer truly be with. He maybe likes this person but truly he likes "being with" this person. As in he likes the sex i do believe. and so, he says he will cross this line with this person one last time before moving or moving on. Perhaps, he just means to spend the night with, have sex, or maybe...that one last kiss.
hes willing to try it again