"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.
Walk into flames that you start with yourselves
And get help while you can to pull meat from bones
Burn down your home
Create a diversion to buy yourself time
To give thanks to the ones who are all alone
You're all alone
These hives
They break into your skin like a thief
They rob you of life while you sleep
So you cut and you cut til there's nothing left
This paper posed as photographs
This promise snapped with time elapsed
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
If you don't believe in God, you will now
I've got hooks and a chain that will fit you well
So save your air
I've locked your personal things in a box
And if you try to scream I won't ever tell
I won't ever tell
These hives
They break into your skin like a
This paper posed as photographs
This promise snapped with time elapsed
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
Last chance to find what we believe
I hope you save those you've deceived
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
You can't hold your breath forever
This paper posed as photographs
This promise snapped with time elapsed
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
Last chance to find what we believe
I hope you save those you've deceived
You think you do
(You can't hold your breath forever)
But you don't know me at all
This paper posed as photographs
This promise snapped with time elapsed
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
Last chance to find what we believe
(If you don't believe)
I hope you save those you've deceived
(Trust me, you will)
You think you do
(If you don't believe)
But you don't know me at all
(Trust me, you will)
Know me at all
If you don't believe
Trust me, you will
And get help while you can to pull meat from bones
Burn down your home
Create a diversion to buy yourself time
To give thanks to the ones who are all alone
You're all alone
These hives
They break into your skin like a thief
They rob you of life while you sleep
So you cut and you cut til there's nothing left
This paper posed as photographs
This promise snapped with time elapsed
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
If you don't believe in God, you will now
I've got hooks and a chain that will fit you well
So save your air
I've locked your personal things in a box
And if you try to scream I won't ever tell
I won't ever tell
These hives
They break into your skin like a
This paper posed as photographs
This promise snapped with time elapsed
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
Last chance to find what we believe
I hope you save those you've deceived
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
You can't hold your breath forever
This paper posed as photographs
This promise snapped with time elapsed
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
Last chance to find what we believe
I hope you save those you've deceived
You think you do
(You can't hold your breath forever)
But you don't know me at all
This paper posed as photographs
This promise snapped with time elapsed
You think you do
But you don't know me at all
Last chance to find what we believe
(If you don't believe)
I hope you save those you've deceived
(Trust me, you will)
You think you do
(If you don't believe)
But you don't know me at all
(Trust me, you will)
Know me at all
If you don't believe
Trust me, you will
Lyrics submitted by eltroyo11
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Well, im not really sure what the song is about. this is actually the first time ive listen to sullivan and so far i think rhe're great.
Well this line is pretty bvious
You think you do But you don't know me at all Last chance to find what we believe
Anyways, in my opinion, i dont know what the song is really about, well i think that on the beginning, this person was trying to help this other person but the person was somehow being changed or something to turn into something else [They rob you of life while you sleep]...
Well, im not really sure...i dont know the band at all besides from what ive heard from them today...hmmm....