"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.
it's nothing big to keep the lights on
somehow it's pretty to see them
'cuz no one else will she feeds them
she's such an innocent heathen
there are such better ways to fix things
and they're soft
and I have trouble remembering
she doesn't mind to take her clothes off
she missed the Garden of Eden
and now the devil is your best friend
the lake of fire feels like cool wind
she shakes your soul up through the ceiling
the innocent heathen
somehow it's pretty to see them
'cuz no one else will she feeds them
she's such an innocent heathen
there are such better ways to fix things
and they're soft
and I have trouble remembering
she doesn't mind to take her clothes off
she missed the Garden of Eden
and now the devil is your best friend
the lake of fire feels like cool wind
she shakes your soul up through the ceiling
the innocent heathen
Lyrics submitted by McWatt
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I love this song. But I have no idea what it means... =/
how many girls out there believe themselves to be innocent, but when it really gets down to it, there's nothing innocent about them (except for this self-image)? this is a song about being under such a girl's spell.
the girl could of had it all, if she just managed a way to voice her problems in order for them to work things out, but she went back to a bad person, and he knows she makes that other guy feel great, but he knows that she still loves him, shes so innocent, but shes still a heathen. i think the song is just a way to sing out the drama about it all. she probably didn't do anything that bad, but it STILL KILLS, but really, of course there would be some kind of love there still.
Hmm. This is I think, my favorite love song...I think it's less about the fact that the is a heathen and he sees her as , but the fact that he understands that a lot of things society sees to be as sinful and heathenlike are truly just...innocent.
Haha, I always thought he was saying, "the lake of fire feels like Cool Whip." Cool WIND is much better. I really like the rhythm of this song, and the sound of the words. She sounds like innocence in its purest sense: she is shameless and unaware that she maybe she should be shameful. Ye digg?