"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.
Well, we were living on the promise land
We were collectors and traders of distance and hours
We would pierce and paint each other's skin
For the sake of communion, some form of completion
But all the blessings and curses you began to speak
They shook the very ground where I stood
Yeah, it didn't kill me
Just made me think of all the things that could
You grow a lot of love, I'm always running out
And you keep trying to force feed me, it just creates a hollowed sound
Thawed me on out, out of this frozen house
Yeah, I found warmth right next to you
But now you radiate from miles away
You've got me melting in my shoes
But I don't belong here, I'm just passing through
And hiding out till the coast is clear
Now you've got me wrapped in your hands and plans
And there's nothing I can do
You grow a lot of love, I'm always running out
And you keep trying to force feed me but it's just not helping so
Cut me free, please
Collect me in your absolute beauty
I can't stop sleeping in, I just feel so unclean
Well I can tell you all about your taste in my mouth
Even when I bite through my tongue, it still remains
Throughout "good morning" messages, the way I reminisce
I was only holding out for summer but it never came
You grow a lot of love, I'm always running out
And you keep trying to force feed me but it's just not helping so
Cut me free, please
What a disappointment I turned out to be
Had all those years of practice and now we're noth
We were collectors and traders of distance and hours
We would pierce and paint each other's skin
For the sake of communion, some form of completion
But all the blessings and curses you began to speak
They shook the very ground where I stood
Yeah, it didn't kill me
Just made me think of all the things that could
You grow a lot of love, I'm always running out
And you keep trying to force feed me, it just creates a hollowed sound
Thawed me on out, out of this frozen house
Yeah, I found warmth right next to you
But now you radiate from miles away
You've got me melting in my shoes
But I don't belong here, I'm just passing through
And hiding out till the coast is clear
Now you've got me wrapped in your hands and plans
And there's nothing I can do
You grow a lot of love, I'm always running out
And you keep trying to force feed me but it's just not helping so
Cut me free, please
Collect me in your absolute beauty
I can't stop sleeping in, I just feel so unclean
Well I can tell you all about your taste in my mouth
Even when I bite through my tongue, it still remains
Throughout "good morning" messages, the way I reminisce
I was only holding out for summer but it never came
You grow a lot of love, I'm always running out
And you keep trying to force feed me but it's just not helping so
Cut me free, please
What a disappointment I turned out to be
Had all those years of practice and now we're noth
Lyrics submitted by peonyandocean, edited by akimika
(Don't) Come Closer [feat. Jaclyn Heuser] Lyrics as written by Nicholas Miura
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it's a cute song. i love her voice.
thanks [: i corrected it.
it's a cute song. i love her voice.
lovely song
Aw, I love this.
It's "lose" not "loose."
Anyway, what an amazing song! Pretty self-explanitory. The video for it pretty much acts it out, it's cute.