"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.
This could be the best for me, most certainly
Silly me and I was so naive, that's what I get for assuming
Silly me and I was so naive, that's what I get for assuming
The rattle in my car is pushing me to the edge
Three blown speakers and the one that works
Is it near me?
Can't hear me singing
Is the one on the back not even on my side?
It's the one on the right and that's just not right
My clothes don't fit the season
I'm cold and that's the reason
Pink slip in my pocket and apparently it's a perfect fit
Cause lately ??? it's all of your own
We're sorry gentlemen the language is already known
Now I might try to make it, to make it on my own
Now I might try to make it, to make it
Cause lately ??? it's all of your own (Because I run the show, even though I may not know)
We're sorry gentlemen the language is already known
Now I might try to make it, to make it on my own (I still do, that now)
Now I might try to make it, to make it
Is it near me?
Can't hear me singing
Is the one on the back not even on my side
Its the one on the right and that's just not right
My clothes don't fit the season
I'm cold and that's the reason
Pink slip in my pocket and apparently it's a perfect fit
Consider me weak like the week after Christmas [x9]
Silly me and I was so naive, that's what I get for assuming
Silly me and I was so naive, that's what I get for assuming
The rattle in my car is pushing me to the edge
Three blown speakers and the one that works
Is it near me?
Can't hear me singing
Is the one on the back not even on my side?
It's the one on the right and that's just not right
My clothes don't fit the season
I'm cold and that's the reason
Pink slip in my pocket and apparently it's a perfect fit
Cause lately ??? it's all of your own
We're sorry gentlemen the language is already known
Now I might try to make it, to make it on my own
Now I might try to make it, to make it
Cause lately ??? it's all of your own (Because I run the show, even though I may not know)
We're sorry gentlemen the language is already known
Now I might try to make it, to make it on my own (I still do, that now)
Now I might try to make it, to make it
Is it near me?
Can't hear me singing
Is the one on the back not even on my side
Its the one on the right and that's just not right
My clothes don't fit the season
I'm cold and that's the reason
Pink slip in my pocket and apparently it's a perfect fit
Consider me weak like the week after Christmas [x9]
Lyrics submitted by fedorov1fan
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The last line in this song is flat out amazing "Consider me weak like the week after Christmas" definitely one of my favorite CIWWAF lines ever...had a lil bit of a problem making out the 2nd verse...1st Cute song ever..recorded in Shaant's room
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Whoops the rest of my message got cut off. I said I haven't been able to find the lyrics anywhere. And also, it is spelt naive*
Also, it is 'i'm cold and that's the reason' not 'i'm hoping that's the reason'
i think this song is about being star-crossed and unlucky. he assumed one thing, being wrong, everything after that just keep falling apart. i think the chorus is just about the 1 speaker out of the 4 that works in his car. being the unlucky guy he is the only speaker working is the one furthest from him, when all he needs are the small things like stereo therapy. it also seems like it's everybody/everything versus him. his clothes not providing warmth, the pink slip that just so happens to fit perfectly...
also, it's "my clothes don't fit the season, I'M COLD and that's the reason."
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this is the first song iv ever heard from them and it made me love them its amazing expecially the last line i love it
i think that it's about a boy who liked someone, who he thought liked him back.
but instead he gets let down by being thought of as weak.
but i agree with the fedorov1fan, "consider me weak like the week after christmas" owns.
do you know where you can download this song (and hiphop at ihop)? they got deleted from my ipod.. i've tried myspace, but you can't download it.. and my computer won't let me download limewire.
"They say it's in a language all of your own"
is the lyrics from the line with the question marks in, before "we're sorry gentlemen that language is already known" .... makes sense.
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