"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.
Everyone says you're amazing
Say you don't know how to do it now
So you run
It's not that you're bleeding, but you're through with it now
So you run, so you run
I know that you need it, you can't live alone
So you run, so you run
Everyone says you're amazing now that you're clean
Only you know the real ones are cause you've seen
There's only one question I want to ask is it healing
When you hear everyone say you're amazing
Does anybody ask you
Do you cry in your sleep and do you feel ok
When you run
Thinking it's Doomsday you got to let it go
So you run, so you run
Pretend you don't see it, that we can live a lie
So you run, so you run
Everyone says you're amazing now that you're clean
Only you know the real ones are cause you've seen
There's only one question I want to ask is it healing
When you hear everyone say you're amazing
Does anybody ask you
Cause I know that you're real, amazing, amazing, amazing
Everyone says you're amazing now that you're clean
Only you know the real ones are because you've seen
There's only one question I want to ask is it healing
When you hear everyone say you're amazing
Everyone says you're amazing (I want you to always feel you're amazing)
Everyone says you're amazing (I want you to always feel you're amazing)
(I want you to always feel you're amazing)
You're amazing
Say you don't know how to do it now
So you run
It's not that you're bleeding, but you're through with it now
So you run, so you run
I know that you need it, you can't live alone
So you run, so you run
Everyone says you're amazing now that you're clean
Only you know the real ones are cause you've seen
There's only one question I want to ask is it healing
When you hear everyone say you're amazing
Does anybody ask you
Do you cry in your sleep and do you feel ok
When you run
Thinking it's Doomsday you got to let it go
So you run, so you run
Pretend you don't see it, that we can live a lie
So you run, so you run
Everyone says you're amazing now that you're clean
Only you know the real ones are cause you've seen
There's only one question I want to ask is it healing
When you hear everyone say you're amazing
Does anybody ask you
Cause I know that you're real, amazing, amazing, amazing
Everyone says you're amazing now that you're clean
Only you know the real ones are because you've seen
There's only one question I want to ask is it healing
When you hear everyone say you're amazing
Everyone says you're amazing (I want you to always feel you're amazing)
Everyone says you're amazing (I want you to always feel you're amazing)
(I want you to always feel you're amazing)
You're amazing
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i love this website! lyrics are about interpretation and everyone's view is so different.
i was thinking that the song mostly has to do with a personal dealing with substance abuse issues and the fact that troubles like those show you who's in it for the long haul, opposed to the "friends" that don't have time for your problems. I can really relate to this song, that's why i love it so much. But I also think this song looks at the point that some people like to embrace and exploit your sobriety. Drugs are brutal, and if you're addicted it's very hard to get clean. Hence the name, "addiction". Relapses can occur, and these lyrics kinda summarize this.
"Pretend you don’t see it, that we can live a lie When you run, so you run"
Sometimes other things can trigger relapses, such as stress; the stress of seeing how everyone's left you. Even though you can tell they weren't real friends, it still hurts cuz it was a relationship.
@beautydivine I agree since I quit drugs years ago and is recovering along with alcohol. I say recovering instead of recovered because for me it's a "day at a time" and when I wake up clean and sober in the morning then I'm happy with that and then strive to stay clean and sober for the rest of that day!
I def think is about someone dealing with and getting off substance abuse, and their struggles with letting go of the addiction, realising who people really are and picking themselves up again.
This song makes me feel sad and upbeat at the same time, just all the negative stuff and that no ones is really there for them, they just say your amazing for being clean and leave you again, but then there is someone there for them saying you should always feel amazing, not just at this moment and because of one thing, and not just because a bunch of people tell you you are. you should always feel amazing about yourself - and that just makes me feel good and i want to happy cry while i dance lol
and yeah the lyrics are: There’s only one question I want to ask - is it HEALING When when you hear everyone say you’re amazing Does anyone ask you?
So you run
From the pain to the healing
From the fake to the real
From lies to reality
Don't turn around
music is great because it touches different emotions for different people.
While i knew he was talking about addiction when i first heard this song , what originally struck me was the feeling of being told you're amazing (or beautiful or talented or strong) but never truly believing it. That's an issue in addiction and in life. I think the person we're harshest on and most afraid of confronting is ourselves, that probably everyone faces self hatred at some point.
You should feel amazing all the time, even when you falter and sometimes fail. It's a part of you, you're still amazing.
I am not the biggest Seal fan. But this song is pretty awesome.
it's like when your in a bad time in life you see that there's no one there except your real friends and like he says
"Everyone says you’re amazing now that you’re clean Only you know who the real ones are cause you’ve seen"
and when you are in a good time everyone is there but when you need them the most they aren't... only those real ones
hmmm. i was thinking that "everyone says your amazing now that you're clean, only you know who the real ones are cause you've seen" meant, someone is out of rehab and are no longer abusing any substances so they are clean, and now they know who their real friends are, and they're amazing now b/c they're not fogged up in the head and are simply happy to be alive.
This Song is AMAAAZING !!! i agree with all of you ,its about friends, cuz those who stood by you through bad times are the real ones .
oh and the lyrics are (is it Healing) instead of (Here and).
this song was written about heidi klums drug addiction
I am not the biggest Seal fan. But this song is pretty awesome.