"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.
adies and gentlemen
Show your appreciation for Jonny Sniper!
(Okay, Jonny, let's go!)
Rise, taste the air
Lock and load, pull the trigger
Climb to new heights
And tell me, tell me what you hear
A whisper from the wind
And I can't help but listen
It warns us of disaster
And I can't help but wonder
Can anyone hear the same distress call?
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
(Okay, Jonny, lock and load)
This is all I need to feel alive
(Remember now, aim small, miss small)
The crashing of white waves
And I can't help but listen, oh
The screaming of the Earth
And I can't help but
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
And this is all I need to feel alive, oh yeah
("Hey Jonny!") This is all I need to feel alive
"Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!"
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
Show your appreciation for Jonny Sniper!
(Okay, Jonny, let's go!)
Rise, taste the air
Lock and load, pull the trigger
Climb to new heights
And tell me, tell me what you hear
A whisper from the wind
And I can't help but listen
It warns us of disaster
And I can't help but wonder
Can anyone hear the same distress call?
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
(Okay, Jonny, lock and load)
This is all I need to feel alive
(Remember now, aim small, miss small)
The crashing of white waves
And I can't help but listen, oh
The screaming of the Earth
And I can't help but
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
And this is all I need to feel alive, oh yeah
("Hey Jonny!") This is all I need to feel alive
"Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!"
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
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I like this song, I agree with FalseSmiles - better than the original version. It's totally different though. The sex-ed thing is right; top marks for ashfro ;] but yes, the actual song bears no resemblance to this. I personally think this song is about Jonny Sniper, the "cupid" of the sex world, sitting back and looking at the world, seeing all the wrong that's being done - knowing he cannot help that, as he already has his job. He is thinking this whilst waiting for another chance to do his job. I imagine a burst of action in his day, but then a period of calm as he has nothing to do, and so he reflects on the world: "and I can't help but listen"; he gets caught up in the problems we are causing (pollution etc). I think he believes that he cannot help the big picture, but doing his job is his way of "saving the world"; he may not be able to do anything drastic, but "he'll always be here for another" - another client, if you will. I think that when it says "the screaming of the earth", it really seems like Jonny wants to do something to help, but he feels duty-bound to his job to protect the unprotected ;] (like my clever pun?), and so can't. He realises, that what he is there for - his calling, is his job. It is all he needs to feel alive. When "WAY TO SAVE THE WORLD" is being shouted at him, it is either signifying that his small job is actually saving the world, OR it represents people mocking him - being sarcastic and saying that he'll never save the world that way. At the end of this song, Jonny is saying to himself, "this is all I need to feel alive", convincing himself that he is doing the right thing - he is helping the planet.
Maybe I've gone too deep here, but I feel like this is what it's about - one man's guilt trip about the world's problems. The whole Jonny Sniper thing is just kinda irrelevent - maybe something to do with population expansion prevention? =S Just a stab in the dark, please correct me ;]
Dan