"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.
The lights go down, outside (before our cars collide)
So we silhouette ourselves (in forty shades of fire)
Do you know where this is leading? I'll meet you there.
The other side of the crash.
On the other side of the glass.
All out friends are falling out, can't look us in the eye,
Or bear to hear that broken sound.
Happens when you're all alone,
Inside, in the middle of the night I hear your voice,
I feel ashamed every time you say, "Car crash came and car crash went, so I went along with it..."
Because the girl you love's not coming back.
It'll never be the same, don't look away. I need to know if this is real. Don't look away.
The hospital ward sleeps
Thought the surgery
Hiding needles in the drawer
(for emergencies)
While outside they wait
In the pouring rain
On the other side of the glass.
Don't look away. I need to know if this is real.
Don't look away. I need to know - when will this end?
Don't look away
Over and out (of control)
The I.V. drips the days drag on
Adjust the light switch in the hall
Maybe the x-ray screen keeps it from getting dark
But the bulb burns out when it gets too hot.
Keep crashing this car (over and over)
Keep crashing this car (over and over)
Keep crashing this car (over and over)
Keep crashing this car (until it spins)
Out of control
So hold me close or I might disappear this time
Out of control
We fight currents in the water
When we can't let go of the shore.
We've lost control.
So we silhouette ourselves (in forty shades of fire)
Do you know where this is leading? I'll meet you there.
The other side of the crash.
On the other side of the glass.
All out friends are falling out, can't look us in the eye,
Or bear to hear that broken sound.
Happens when you're all alone,
Inside, in the middle of the night I hear your voice,
I feel ashamed every time you say, "Car crash came and car crash went, so I went along with it..."
Because the girl you love's not coming back.
It'll never be the same, don't look away. I need to know if this is real. Don't look away.
The hospital ward sleeps
Thought the surgery
Hiding needles in the drawer
(for emergencies)
While outside they wait
In the pouring rain
On the other side of the glass.
Don't look away. I need to know if this is real.
Don't look away. I need to know - when will this end?
Don't look away
Over and out (of control)
The I.V. drips the days drag on
Adjust the light switch in the hall
Maybe the x-ray screen keeps it from getting dark
But the bulb burns out when it gets too hot.
Keep crashing this car (over and over)
Keep crashing this car (over and over)
Keep crashing this car (over and over)
Keep crashing this car (until it spins)
Out of control
So hold me close or I might disappear this time
Out of control
We fight currents in the water
When we can't let go of the shore.
We've lost control.
Lyrics submitted by NoLightToSeeBy
The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (Of Control) Lyrics as written by Andrew Everding Iii
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is one of the new demo songs that leaked. I think I got these pretty accurate but their may be some errors here and there seeing as I wrote these lyrics by ear, so if you see any mistakes I've made point them out.
where can i get this song?
rapidshare.de/files/7114609/td.zip.html
Seems like this song is about a girl who's love has died in a car crash and she wants to be with him. So she attempts suicide by cutting her veins....Or the whole thing could be metaphoric for something else...
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The IV drips, the days drag on THE ANNECTICS NOT WARING OFF Adjust the light switch in the hall, someone has left it on And maybe the x-ray screen keeps it from getting dark The bulb burns out when it gets too hot
and done.
wearing**
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Im going to try to decipher Untitled 4 now... from the lyrics I can understand, theyre' amazing.
I already got 4, and I got 5. They just don't let me add the lyrics.
I'll give them to you, but mention that I helped you out.
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