"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.
my parachute didn't open
and when my back up failed
the pixie dust prevailed
and i woke up next to you
all i wanted was to hold you
i was born in a city
however small
it held a hospital
for location where i came into being
it was all down hill from there
what do you do
when your lifes a disaster
and your moving faster
and its getting harder to breathe
what do you say
if someone is right but
you disagree
even if its the truth
i was told you are depressed
by a little bird
that was severly hurt
as it did not notice my window
it just flew wherever the wind blows
as it convulsed on the pavement
it whispered i am hated
your genetic flaws
i said say it all
you cant decipher reflections form reality
but neither can i
i noticed neither can i
i noticed neither can i
i noticed neither can i
you are the circle
i am the square
i have the non cut
you have the cool hair
we both take showers
for almost an hour
but only once a week or two
what do you do
when your lifes a disaster
and your moving faster
and its getting harder to breathe
what do you say
if someone is right but
you disagree even if its the truth
and when my back up failed
the pixie dust prevailed
and i woke up next to you
all i wanted was to hold you
i was born in a city
however small
it held a hospital
for location where i came into being
it was all down hill from there
what do you do
when your lifes a disaster
and your moving faster
and its getting harder to breathe
what do you say
if someone is right but
you disagree
even if its the truth
i was told you are depressed
by a little bird
that was severly hurt
as it did not notice my window
it just flew wherever the wind blows
as it convulsed on the pavement
it whispered i am hated
your genetic flaws
i said say it all
you cant decipher reflections form reality
but neither can i
i noticed neither can i
i noticed neither can i
i noticed neither can i
you are the circle
i am the square
i have the non cut
you have the cool hair
we both take showers
for almost an hour
but only once a week or two
what do you do
when your lifes a disaster
and your moving faster
and its getting harder to breathe
what do you say
if someone is right but
you disagree even if its the truth
Lyrics submitted by catz-r-awesome
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you are the circle i am the square i have the non cut you have the cool hair we both take showers for almost an hour but only once a week or two
:D
I think this song is more simple than you guys think.. he starts in a nightmare that goes into a dreamland waking up next to a hot girl (madi). everything is downhill from there cuz he leaves her to go off to another day of reality (work/school).
The rest of the lyrics are whatever you make of em tho. I see them as struggling to make a relationship work or coping with life and trying to make sense of it.
I can't even fathom what this song means.
Because really, only Dan knows what it means.
But I suppose it could mean anything to anyone.
I see a bunch of different meanings in it.
I have no clue what this song is actually about. I think defferant ppl perseive it in a differant way, because we have all had differant situations happen to us. so this song can mean one thing for me and smthing totally differant for somebody else. But whatever it means... i love this song =)
Basically, it seems like life sucks throughout the beginning.
The part about the bird is interesting, though. Here's what I think: People tend to go with the flow, and then something happens, and we crash into the window. "Convulsing on the pavement," we think that because everything's going wrong, the world hates us. The fact is, no one can "decipher reflections from reality," we hardly know what's the right thing to do, and sometimes we go down a path that crashes us into a window.
He starts off saying that it's the bird's fault because he's a bird, but then adds that he can't do it either. We judge each other for things that we can't control, when really we're all the same inside. The fact that the bird, in his pitiable position, can still tell him that he's depressed shows how bad it is for him.
And I'd like to add that the first paragraph is amazing.
i think that its about a girl that is totally in love with a guy.. and when she thinks that she is getting close.. he pushes her away .. just like it said " as it did not notcie my window '' just like a bird flies into a window everynow and then not noticing that it was there
this song is amazingg.
I LOVE THIS GUYY
This songs just makes me so happy, just to hear the rhythim makes me smile :]
:) playradioplay!