"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.
Dearest love,
I hope this message finds you well
As these endless thoughts drip from my soul
Every single word secretly paints a fairytale
Of when we will melt into one...
Eyes forfeit sight to the pain
Cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very core
As I cling to memories of you
I am so scared...so scared...I need you with me
Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you
That in my death the light that shone through my painful darkness
Was a blinding vision of your eternal smile?
It's me again,
Is it me or am I wrong to be concerned?
Will the beauty of your pen ever cross my eyes again?
Was this all a lie? why?
Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you
That in my death the light that shone through my painful darkness
Was a blinding vision of your eternal smile?
Make it stop, make this pounding in my head stop
Fill my lungs with air, give me one more day to make her dreams come true
She understands right? that I'm not coming back...
She understands right? that I'm not coming back...
Make it stop, make the pounding stop
I'm not coming back, I'm not coming back, I'm not coming back...
I don't know what happened...who would have thought my life would end up like this?
I didn't mean to hurt her, not hurt her like this...I can't feel my legs
I can't feel my legs and I can't even cry...how could somebody die like this?
If my words ever reach you I'll assume you don't care
Never knew that silence could cut so deep or that you could twist the blade
Now I curse all of your beautiful lies..
I love you and goodbye...
Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you
That in my death the light that shone through my painful darkness
Was a blinding vision of your eternal smile?
Cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very core
As I cling to my memories of you...
I hope this message finds you well
As these endless thoughts drip from my soul
Every single word secretly paints a fairytale
Of when we will melt into one...
Eyes forfeit sight to the pain
Cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very core
As I cling to memories of you
I am so scared...so scared...I need you with me
Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you
That in my death the light that shone through my painful darkness
Was a blinding vision of your eternal smile?
It's me again,
Is it me or am I wrong to be concerned?
Will the beauty of your pen ever cross my eyes again?
Was this all a lie? why?
Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you
That in my death the light that shone through my painful darkness
Was a blinding vision of your eternal smile?
Make it stop, make this pounding in my head stop
Fill my lungs with air, give me one more day to make her dreams come true
She understands right? that I'm not coming back...
She understands right? that I'm not coming back...
Make it stop, make the pounding stop
I'm not coming back, I'm not coming back, I'm not coming back...
I don't know what happened...who would have thought my life would end up like this?
I didn't mean to hurt her, not hurt her like this...I can't feel my legs
I can't feel my legs and I can't even cry...how could somebody die like this?
If my words ever reach you I'll assume you don't care
Never knew that silence could cut so deep or that you could twist the blade
Now I curse all of your beautiful lies..
I love you and goodbye...
Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you
That in my death the light that shone through my painful darkness
Was a blinding vision of your eternal smile?
Cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very core
As I cling to my memories of you...
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
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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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Amazing
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i think there is a missing line where the two voices are talking… i think it goes like this "I don't know what happened...who would have thought my life would end up like this? i never even got the to see her naked, or to touch her hair, and now its to late I didn't mean to hurt her, not hurt her like this…I can't feel my legs I can't feel my legs and I can't even cry…how could somebody die like this? who would have thought my life would end up like this?" idk i could be rong… what do people think??
they dnt say naked! God theyre not pervs i think he says something bout her face not her being naked! lol yea i listened to it closely and no he says something bout her face
i never even got the to see her naked<br /> <br /> thats not in the song..