"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.
Ahh!!!
Ahh!!!
All tonight ending now ending now!
All tonight ending now ending now!
All tonight ending now ending now!
On rebound!
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
You're in my place again
Echoes before us see now
You're in my wavelength
Sound would of means rectified
Sound would of means rectify!
Shadows casting all ways!
Who knows which way things is now?
I slept in images
Im so down beat on the bright
Im so down and make them a cry
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
I know that place again
You're in my loneliness speak now
I realised
I don't have my further to go
I don't have my further to go
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
Life only back when you're never be freezing ah ahh!
Life only back when you're never be freezing
Wouldn't pass it before you (ah ahh!)
Wouldn't pass it before you!
Down is my palce now
No place out there I have to be
Lost is where I am
And Im no reason to be found
To be found
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
Ahh!!!
All tonight ending now ending now!
All tonight ending now ending now!
All tonight ending now ending now!
On rebound!
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
You're in my place again
Echoes before us see now
You're in my wavelength
Sound would of means rectified
Sound would of means rectify!
Shadows casting all ways!
Who knows which way things is now?
I slept in images
Im so down beat on the bright
Im so down and make them a cry
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
Death before life
I know that place again
You're in my loneliness speak now
I realised
I don't have my further to go
I don't have my further to go
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
The afterglow
Life only back when you're never be freezing ah ahh!
Life only back when you're never be freezing
Wouldn't pass it before you (ah ahh!)
Wouldn't pass it before you!
Down is my palce now
No place out there I have to be
Lost is where I am
And Im no reason to be found
To be found
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
From no sound to resound
Lyrics submitted by owenparry26
Afterglow Lyrics as written by Josh Adam Klinghoffer John Anthony Frusciante
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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okay so i'm kind of confused. i bought a used CD off the internet. came with two booklets, one's small one with liner notes, and the other is a book of lyrics in both english and japanese. i assumed these were correct lyrics, as it looks official, and i just assumed i had a booklet from a japanese release or something. but the lyrics are completely different, here they are exactly as printed:
Undenied undenied (repeat)
Dead people lie All people lie Dead people lie Dead people lie
You're in my place again Echoes become a sin now You're in my way, man Sound would mean some wrecking up Sound would mean some wrecking up
Shadows casting... Who knows were traveling down there ...images Of some...
Dead people lie (repeat)
I'm not a president You'll hear my lonely mouth speak now I don't have my purpose to go
The afterglow The afterglow The afterglow The afterglow The afterglow
Lie on your back when you're nailed up in freedom Lie on your back when you're nailed up in freedom Hooked up before you Hooked up before you
Down is my place, man No place I feel I have to be Lost is where I am And I've no reason to be found To be down From myself to be down From myself to be down (repeat) From myself a reason
so what's up with this? what are the real lyrics?