"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.
On a dark street
on a cold night
pizza's cooking
in a storefront oven
on the corner a boy is waiting
the moonlight feels cold and
desperate some hidden sadness has bound down
attention is all over town ready
to burst open into driving burning
exploding sound
If these walls could sing they would
sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk they would say
they would have seen it coming all along, all along
Tony's making slice pies for the lunch rush
stirring the sauce pounding out
the dough his brother left town with his
girl she aint his girl no more
And some days they never seem to end
So ????!!! in his home town ready to burst
open into driving burning exploding sound.
And If these walls could sing they would
sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk they would say
they would have seen it coming all along ,
all along, all along...
May all these walls be made in all our wasted years and days
not stand in our way that we may feel the window change
(change, turn it up [3x])
And If these walls could sing
they would sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk
they would say they would have seen it coming, coming, coming all along, all along
[x5]
on a cold night
pizza's cooking
in a storefront oven
on the corner a boy is waiting
the moonlight feels cold and
desperate some hidden sadness has bound down
attention is all over town ready
to burst open into driving burning
exploding sound
If these walls could sing they would
sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk they would say
they would have seen it coming all along, all along
Tony's making slice pies for the lunch rush
stirring the sauce pounding out
the dough his brother left town with his
girl she aint his girl no more
And some days they never seem to end
So ????!!! in his home town ready to burst
open into driving burning exploding sound.
And If these walls could sing they would
sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk they would say
they would have seen it coming all along ,
all along, all along...
May all these walls be made in all our wasted years and days
not stand in our way that we may feel the window change
(change, turn it up [3x])
And If these walls could sing
they would sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk
they would say they would have seen it coming, coming, coming all along, all along
[x5]
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I'm guessing it's about the years that past you by?
so beautiful. bouncing souls are amazing.
this is a beautiful song
damn I was hoping someone would have an answer for what the walls had seen coming all along
but i think the song is about getting wrapped up in a routine in life and never really getting out and doing what you want to.
"Tony's making slice pies for the lunch rush Stirring the sauce, pounding out the dough His brother left town with his girl She ain't his girl no more"
Tony's brother and girl left because they wanted to get away and he was left behind because he was too afraid to break out and go somewhere, that's how I interpret it anyways.
So yeah I think it's about that and maybe looking back and seeing how the years have passed you by. So maybe what the walls saw coming is that you would realize that you made the mistake of never getting out and doing what you wanted with your life. And they saw it coming because they've seen it happen to many people who worked in the store before.
Anyways such a beautiful song, when I first saw the title I thought it was gonna be a fun song about pizza and then I listened to it and I was like woah, this is deep.
damn I was hoping someone would have an answer for what the walls had seen coming all along
but i think the song is about getting wrapped up in a routine in life and never really getting out and doing what you want to.
"Tony's making slice pies for the lunch rush Stirring the sauce, pounding out the dough His brother left town with his girl She ain't his girl no more"
Tony's brother and girl left because they wanted to get away and he was left behind because he was too afraid to break out and go somewhere, that's how I interpret it anyways.
So yeah I think it's about that and maybe looking back and seeing how the years have passed you by. So maybe what the walls saw coming is that you would realize that you made the mistake of never getting out and doing what you wanted with your life. And they saw it coming because they've seen it happen to many people who worked in the store before.
Anyways such a beautiful song, when I first saw the title I thought it was gonna be a fun song about pizza and then I listened to it and I was like woah, this is deep.
not sure, but ive heard its about the tony guy committing suicide cause his girlfriend left him for his brother. but i dunno