"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 night opens her lap
The child's name is loneliness
It is cold and motionless
I cry softly into time
I don't know what your name is
But I know that you exist
I know that sometime
someone will love me
He comes to me every night
No words are left to say
With his hands around my neck
I close my eyes and pass away
I don't know who he is
In my dreams he does exist
His passion is a kiss
And I can not resist
I wait here
Don't die before I do
I wait here
Don't die before I do
I don't know who you are
I know that you exist
Don't die
Sometimes love seems so far
I wait here
Your love I can't dismiss
I wait here
All the houses are covered in snow
And candle light in the windows
They lie there together
And I
I only wait for you
I wait here
Don't die before I do
I wait here
Don't die before I do
I don't know who you are
I know that you exist
Don't die
Sometimes love seems so far
I wait here
Your love I can't dismiss
Don't die before I do
The child's name is loneliness
It is cold and motionless
I cry softly into time
I don't know what your name is
But I know that you exist
I know that sometime
someone will love me
He comes to me every night
No words are left to say
With his hands around my neck
I close my eyes and pass away
I don't know who he is
In my dreams he does exist
His passion is a kiss
And I can not resist
I wait here
Don't die before I do
I wait here
Don't die before I do
I don't know who you are
I know that you exist
Don't die
Sometimes love seems so far
I wait here
Your love I can't dismiss
I wait here
All the houses are covered in snow
And candle light in the windows
They lie there together
And I
I only wait for you
I wait here
Don't die before I do
I wait here
Don't die before I do
I don't know who you are
I know that you exist
Don't die
Sometimes love seems so far
I wait here
Your love I can't dismiss
Don't die before I do
Lyrics submitted by seelenschrei
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
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Just A Little Lovin'
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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Magical
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Even though the song portrays the determination of never giving up hope in their search, it also illustrates the pain of being without one another. They repeatedly ask each other not to die before their search is complete.
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most beautiful song on the whole Rosenrot album! I think it covers soemthing along the lines of finding the One that's perfect for you and letting them know how you feel before it's too late
I agree with ether poet i have only recently gotten into german metal very beautiful song very deep
It reminds me of Phantom of the Opera.
Christine: In sleep he sang to me In dreams he came That voice which calls to me And speaks my name And do I dream again? For now I find The phantom of the opera is there, Inside my mind
Phantom: Sing once again with me Our strange duet My power over you Grows stronger yet And though you turn from me to glance behind The phantom of the opera is there Inside your mind
wow. this song brings tears to my eyes. everyone wants to find that person they love with all of their heart and body and soul, with every part of their being. that person that they simply cannot live without. but love kills- whether slowly or not, it kills. or something like that.
I love this song. I've always thought this song is about a person who is searching for the love of their life, feeling lonely and are heart broken but determined to find that special someone before it's too late.
I think this song is about a man growing old and eventually dying, searching for that one person they can love with their whole heart. I can kind of relate to this song through my father. Ever since he and my mom divorced, my father has been living alone, searching for the true love of their life. (not sure if he is still through loving my mother :( )
@Horrorchicken speaking as someone who has lost that person....there will never be another. True Love makes everyone else in the world lesser. Sure there are other females in the world, of varying degrees of interesting...but there is only one woman. And shes gone from me now, and I did it to myself. So now I exist in a slow motion suicide, in a world that is a little less colorful, where sounds are a little more distant and muddled, where food has a little less taste, where joy and satiation is a fading memory, where happiness brings pained realizations the one I wish to share that feeling with is not by my side, and the only thing I pray for now is that they do not die before I do.....I dont think I could handle never seeing them again, and only ever being able to be no closer than 6 feet away from who I was meant to lay down with for eternity, until the sun swallowed the earth before casting our atoms out to drift among the stars for the rest of time together. It hurts every day. It will never stop. And it is the pain many claim in poetic prose, but the unluckiest few will have to endure. I know now why people give in to the release from this plane, and I hope they found their painless forenevermore.