"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.
And you don't know it
What hides inside me
If nothings so different
Don't close the door
I'm not asking for more
Oh god I'd give my life for you
For just one second that was true
Keep me feeling so brand new
You know why yesterday was a lie
And even when you're sad
I walk away
And even when you're happy
I stay
Did I sale my soul for this feeling
So long ago
Did I give my heart for that waste
At the time
I'm not asking for much
Don't hid me
Then you wonder why my heart
Did I sell my soul for that feeling
You know why yesterday was a lie
I can't keep thinkin' I was right
Don't go
What hides inside me
If nothings so different
Don't close the door
I'm not asking for more
Oh god I'd give my life for you
For just one second that was true
Keep me feeling so brand new
You know why yesterday was a lie
And even when you're sad
I walk away
And even when you're happy
I stay
Did I sale my soul for this feeling
So long ago
Did I give my heart for that waste
At the time
I'm not asking for much
Don't hid me
Then you wonder why my heart
Did I sell my soul for that feeling
You know why yesterday was a lie
I can't keep thinkin' I was right
Don't go
Lyrics submitted by bewareofmilo
Yesterday Was a Lie Lyrics as written by Fabrice Regis Robert Dumont Angela Mccluskey
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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i love this song i love how her voice is filtered at the start and when it becomes clear its just magical.
Did I sell my soul for this feeling (sele) So long ago
Did I give my heart for that waste Of time (At the time)
I'm not asking for much Don't hide me (hid) Then you wonder why my heart
Long ago, I would have said that this song corresponded with my life during years of an abusive relationship. If you continue to listen to noise that rambles on afterwards, sirens and keyboard clacking, beeping and electronic tickings, that's what it was like when the magic of loving someone begins to fade away. In our modern age, technology is used throughout the dating scene; texting, skyping, face timing, emailing, and everything in between. The coldness that follows, the distancing, and that breaking away. Things becoming routine, machine-like. Yet, this lovely, humanistic, painstakingly bare voice is begging for that one to stay, for the love to remain the same, and yet it won't. Did she sell her soul for that moment? Perhaps. Did I sell my soul for that moment in time, to be loved as I believe I could be? Yes.
But I stole it right back.
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I agree with you, it does sound like somebody who suffered for their love, and perhaps the feeling that remains for a long time after. It's hard when you realize somebody doesn't love you in the same way you love them. Very touched by the song, and Angela McCluskey's amazing voice.