"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 hope this song can tell you how I feel tonight
You are my first dissection spilling my insides
Lets write our names with the blood that's in our cheeks
So it won't wash away if I don't come home for weeks
If I don't come home...
I never said (never said)
This would be easy
I let her go when she said she was leaving
So whisper softly
And don't forget
To tell me how you feel in five words or less
I knew I should have never offered you the world
The nights are full of faces you're the only girl
Save my world from disaster
Make my heart stop beating faster
Ask the question, here's the answer
I need you now and I can't stand this
I never said (never said)
This would be easy
I let her go when she said she was leaving
So whisper softly
And don't forget
To tell me how you feel in five words or less
Just tell me how you feel...
I need your voice tonight...
Just tell me how you feel...
Whoa, whoa...
So whisper softly and don't forget
To tell me how you feel in five words or less
I never said (never said)
This would be easy
I let her go when she said she was leaving
So whisper softly
And don't forget
To tell me how you feel in five words or less
You are my first dissection spilling my insides
Lets write our names with the blood that's in our cheeks
So it won't wash away if I don't come home for weeks
If I don't come home...
I never said (never said)
This would be easy
I let her go when she said she was leaving
So whisper softly
And don't forget
To tell me how you feel in five words or less
I knew I should have never offered you the world
The nights are full of faces you're the only girl
Save my world from disaster
Make my heart stop beating faster
Ask the question, here's the answer
I need you now and I can't stand this
I never said (never said)
This would be easy
I let her go when she said she was leaving
So whisper softly
And don't forget
To tell me how you feel in five words or less
Just tell me how you feel...
I need your voice tonight...
Just tell me how you feel...
Whoa, whoa...
So whisper softly and don't forget
To tell me how you feel in five words or less
I never said (never said)
This would be easy
I let her go when she said she was leaving
So whisper softly
And don't forget
To tell me how you feel in five words or less
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good lyrics, except the correct chorus is as follows: (chorus) I never said (never said) this would be easy I let her go when she said she was leaving
I think it's about being away from the one you love, and needing to hear their voice. it's such a great song. i'm so glad HH came back.
If i messed up correct me cause i did this by ear =] but i love this song alottt and its soo awesome...
the first chorus says "she wont leave me" it changes on the second and last one "she was leaving"
you messed up completely on the lyrics.. "you are my first assemption here in sight" ... first of all assemption isn't a word... and its "you are my first dissection spilling my insides." lol nice try though
The first chorus says when she was leaving no she wont' leave me... its save my world from disaster not to my world one disaster
a lot of the words are wrong. .
"to my world one disaster Make my heart start beating faster"
very good part of the song. .
i do think the "(woah-oh woah-oh)" part is a little not needed. . it sounds like they just rushed it and ouldnt think of anymore words. . the shoulda just put nothing
i made a mistake... its actually TURN my world from disaster.. not SAVE
i fink it's bout lettin sum1 u love go then realising that u loved them all along
the coolest thing about this song is the fact that most if not all human emotions can be loosely summed up in "five words or less" examples "I hate you", "I love you" etc. i couldnt think of a basic human emotion that needed six words.