"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.
He wrote you letters,
And I couldn't care,
'Cause I know you didn't,
You know you didn't,
Still he ran those fingers through your hair,
and he kissed you,
When you let him.
Resiliency amazes me.
You wrote me letters
I didn't read.
I know I didn't,
You know I didn't,
Still I caressed you
sang you to sleep.
sometimes I told you you were beautiful.
Resiliency amazes me.
The day I left you,
Got on the bus.
I knew I'd see you,
You knew I'd see you,
Still you cried, and now I know why.
ain't it too bad?
I loved you so much
Brazilian sea amazes me
And I couldn't care,
'Cause I know you didn't,
You know you didn't,
Still he ran those fingers through your hair,
and he kissed you,
When you let him.
Resiliency amazes me.
You wrote me letters
I didn't read.
I know I didn't,
You know I didn't,
Still I caressed you
sang you to sleep.
sometimes I told you you were beautiful.
Resiliency amazes me.
The day I left you,
Got on the bus.
I knew I'd see you,
You knew I'd see you,
Still you cried, and now I know why.
ain't it too bad?
I loved you so much
Brazilian sea amazes me
Lyrics submitted by AppleScruffs, edited by rathyrye
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such a beautiful song that got me through a bad break up. and i agree, it's definetly "resiliency amazes me."
i think that they are saying "Resiliency amazes me".
I agree with "resiliency amazes me." I think this song is about two people who love each other but are apart and have been through a lot together. One person is trying to make themselves love someone they are not in love with. The other is trying to not love someone they actually are in love with.
Then they both realized they loved each other, but it was too late.
this song is the epitome of bittersweet it really just utterly breaks my heart tears effortlessly come :'(
this song is amazing and is defff helping me get over a recent heartbreak. resiliency is something i'm trying to learn. thank you devotchka! pure beauty.
I found this song through the movie I Love You Phillip Morris and it is amazing. The song, I mean. It's so beautiful and just utterly simple.
i think the whole song revolves around how once one is not longing after the other (or "resilient"), the other person becomes interested because they can no longer have them.