"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.
I wear myself too thin
Can't help myself this time
I'm on the outside looking in
Can't see myself this time
Don't wanna go, don't wanna go
Don't wanna drive back home
There's nothing there for me
It's one a. m.
It's two a. m.
It's four in the morning
Did I think she'd be here?
Did I fool myself again?
I think I did
I think I fooled myself again
Again, again, again
I fooled myself again
If I spend just one
Just one more night
Just one more night
Being mediocre then
Just one more night
Just one more night
Well I'll scream at the top of my lungs
Just one more night
Just one more night
Being mediocre then
Just one more night
Just one more night
Well I'll scream at the top of my lungs but it falls on deaf ears
I wear myself too thin
Can't help myself this time
I'm on the outside looking in
Can't see myself this time
Don't wanna go, don't wanna go
Don't wanna drive back home
There's nothing there for me
It's one a. m.
It's two a. m.
It's four in the morning
Did I think she'd be here?
Did I fool myself again?
I think I did
I think I fooled myself again
Again, again, again
I fooled myself again
If I spend just one
Just one more night
Just one more night
Being mediocre then
Just one more night
Just one more night
Well I'll scream at the top of my lungs
Just one more night
Just one more night
Being mediocre then
Just one more night
Just one more night
Well I'll scream at the top of my lungs
I scream out loud
But no one hears a sound
I take my life with lack of sleep
I believe the things I feel
The things I see are fooling only?
Scream out loud
But no one hears a sound
I take my life with lack of sleep
I believe the things I feel
(scream out loud, but no one hears?)
The things I see are fooling only
(a sound, I take my life with lack of sleep)
Scream out loud
(I believe the things?)
But no one hears a sound
(I feel, the things I see?)
I take my life with lack of sleep (are fooling only
I believe the things I feel
(scream out loud, but no one hears?)
The things I see are fooling only
(a sound, I take my life with lack of sleep)
Scream out loud
(I believe the things?)
But no one hears a sound
(I feel, the things I see?)
I take my life with lack of sleep (? are fooling only)
I believe the things I feel
(scream out loud, but no one hears?)
The things I see are fooling only
(a sound, I take my life with lack of sleep)
Scream out loud
But no one hears a sound
I take my life with lack of sleep
I believe the things I feel
The things I see are fooling only -
Scream out loud
But no one hears a sound
I take my life with lack of sleep
I believe the things I feel
The things I see are fooling only me
Can't help myself this time
I'm on the outside looking in
Can't see myself this time
Don't wanna go, don't wanna go
Don't wanna drive back home
There's nothing there for me
It's one a. m.
It's two a. m.
It's four in the morning
Did I think she'd be here?
Did I fool myself again?
I think I did
I think I fooled myself again
Again, again, again
I fooled myself again
If I spend just one
Just one more night
Just one more night
Being mediocre then
Just one more night
Just one more night
Well I'll scream at the top of my lungs
Just one more night
Just one more night
Being mediocre then
Just one more night
Just one more night
Well I'll scream at the top of my lungs but it falls on deaf ears
I wear myself too thin
Can't help myself this time
I'm on the outside looking in
Can't see myself this time
Don't wanna go, don't wanna go
Don't wanna drive back home
There's nothing there for me
It's one a. m.
It's two a. m.
It's four in the morning
Did I think she'd be here?
Did I fool myself again?
I think I did
I think I fooled myself again
Again, again, again
I fooled myself again
If I spend just one
Just one more night
Just one more night
Being mediocre then
Just one more night
Just one more night
Well I'll scream at the top of my lungs
Just one more night
Just one more night
Being mediocre then
Just one more night
Just one more night
Well I'll scream at the top of my lungs
I scream out loud
But no one hears a sound
I take my life with lack of sleep
I believe the things I feel
The things I see are fooling only?
Scream out loud
But no one hears a sound
I take my life with lack of sleep
I believe the things I feel
(scream out loud, but no one hears?)
The things I see are fooling only
(a sound, I take my life with lack of sleep)
Scream out loud
(I believe the things?)
But no one hears a sound
(I feel, the things I see?)
I take my life with lack of sleep (are fooling only
I believe the things I feel
(scream out loud, but no one hears?)
The things I see are fooling only
(a sound, I take my life with lack of sleep)
Scream out loud
(I believe the things?)
But no one hears a sound
(I feel, the things I see?)
I take my life with lack of sleep (? are fooling only)
I believe the things I feel
(scream out loud, but no one hears?)
The things I see are fooling only
(a sound, I take my life with lack of sleep)
Scream out loud
But no one hears a sound
I take my life with lack of sleep
I believe the things I feel
The things I see are fooling only -
Scream out loud
But no one hears a sound
I take my life with lack of sleep
I believe the things I feel
The things I see are fooling only me
Lyrics submitted by emoscreamo, edited by SmashingDestiny
19 Lyrics as written by Paul Hardcastle William Couturie
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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heartbreak in stereo -PS don't write -Yesterday -Don Quixote -10 Rings -Secret Goldfish -8th Grade -19 -Trying to escape the inevitable -loyd dobbler -Florida plates -???
other: -Home -Heroine Slow -attention readers -marquee girl -secret goldfish (alternate version)
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alright, so after i read this, i listened to 19 over and over and over trying to figure out what he is saying at the end... its hard to understand because he is singing it in a round but here is what im pretty sure it is:
I scream out loud But no one hears a sound And take, I'm left with lack of sleep, Believe the things I feel The things I see Im fooling only me
makes sense... right?
i also tried to figure out the lyrics to attention reader... i got most of them, but there are a few parts he screams and i dont understand...
i suppose this song is about getting stood up? thats my best guess
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i'll post attetion reader's lyrics but they're very inaccurate. try to correct them. PS- Great myspace
is there any where on the web you can listen to pencey prep songs 'cos i really love M.C.R and frank.
download them off limewire, although the songs aren't THAT good (except Trying to escape the inevitable)
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to B12:
im pretty sure Marquee girl isnt by the same Pencey Prep, i remember i got a couple of songs off of limewire and they were by a different band with the same name. but i dont think the other band is signed and that how they managed to have the same name, fools!