"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 times we had
Oh, when the wind would blow with rain and snow
Were not all bad
We put our feet just where they had, had to go
Never to go
The shattered soul
Following close but nearly twice as slow
In my good times
There were always golden rocks to throw
At those who
Those who admit defeat too late
Those were our times, those were our times
And I will love to see that day
That day is mine
When she will marry me outside with the willow trees
And play the songs we made
They made me so
And I would love to see that day
Her day was mine
Oh, when the wind would blow with rain and snow
Were not all bad
We put our feet just where they had, had to go
Never to go
The shattered soul
Following close but nearly twice as slow
In my good times
There were always golden rocks to throw
At those who
Those who admit defeat too late
Those were our times, those were our times
And I will love to see that day
That day is mine
When she will marry me outside with the willow trees
And play the songs we made
They made me so
And I would love to see that day
Her day was mine
Lyrics submitted by SphagnumEsplanade
Postcards From Italy Lyrics as written by Zach Condon
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Personalmente creo que habla de un amor, un amor que llegó a su fin y él simplemente lo recuerda y la recuerda a ella. Recuerda los buenos momentos que vivieron "We put our feet just where they had, had to go Never to go" para mi hace referencia a que en su momento ambos creyeron ir bien encaminados, que ambos tenÃan su futuro planeado juntos pero que finalmente nunca se logró, nunca pudieron caminar por donde querÃan por donde soñaban. "The shattered soul Following close but nearly twice as slow" es como si quisiera decir que el triste final que destrozarÃa su alma siempre estuvo, pero su relación fue duradera (but nearly twice as slow) Y en la última estrofa es, personalmente, algo que él sabe que no pasará pero si fue algo que estuvo en sus planes y que le gustarÃa ver como las proyecciones de ambos se hacen realidad.