"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.
I would die to be your lover lost at sea
And I'd fly to hear your arid sirening
And I'd scream "My love!" through bloody hurricanes
Would you say so if you thought of me?
And would it crush you if you saw me bleed?
And would you dance the same if you knew that I could see?
Do you feel the same for me?
With guns ablaze I'll bring you what you need
And with fires of rain and wake our blinking city up
I'll scream "My love!" as arrows fill the skies.
Would you say so if you thought of me?
And would it crush you if you saw me bleed?
And would you dance the same if you knew that I could see?
Do you feel the same for me?
Hey now, oh no you've got a clean shot
All the ways you could pierce my heart.
Hey now, oh no you've run me right through
With all these words that I've sung to you.
Would you say so if you thought of me?
And would it crush you if you saw me bleed?
And would you dance the same if you knew that I could see?
Do you feel the same for me?
And I'd fly to hear your arid sirening
And I'd scream "My love!" through bloody hurricanes
Would you say so if you thought of me?
And would it crush you if you saw me bleed?
And would you dance the same if you knew that I could see?
Do you feel the same for me?
With guns ablaze I'll bring you what you need
And with fires of rain and wake our blinking city up
I'll scream "My love!" as arrows fill the skies.
Would you say so if you thought of me?
And would it crush you if you saw me bleed?
And would you dance the same if you knew that I could see?
Do you feel the same for me?
Hey now, oh no you've got a clean shot
All the ways you could pierce my heart.
Hey now, oh no you've run me right through
With all these words that I've sung to you.
Would you say so if you thought of me?
And would it crush you if you saw me bleed?
And would you dance the same if you knew that I could see?
Do you feel the same for me?
Lyrics submitted by BinacaFreak
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and the dancing part doesn't literally mean dancing...it means the way we live our lives and how if we learn to understand Jesus,that we need to think of Him in our everyday lives...and that if we realized that he was watching and understood that, most of us would act differently.
Respectfully. what is it with you people thinking everything is about Jesus and God? Just cause the band is labelled as christian rock at times doesn't mean this beautiful piece of art describing romanticism is about Jesus.. This song just proves how culture today has set some really bad standards on the word "love." As soon as someone looks at a person from a distance, they're stalkers. We have all done it, we have all seen that person we think would make us happy and wished they looked back. Anyway, disrespectfully, you guys are freaky asexual creatures who would rather think this song is about a deity rather than fall into its true trance.
@Darwino In part I totally agree with you, and in part completely disagree. This world definately has a messed up perception of love, where if someone watches the one they love from afar it is about stalking and if the band is "Christian" then the song must be about Jesus.<br /> <br /> However, I think you're absolutely wrong about the fact that Christians are "freaky asexual people who would rather think this song is about a deity rather than fall into it's true trance." First of all, the band themselves are Christians, so they obviously grasp the concept. Just look at bands like Anberlin, Flyleaf, Lifehouse, Relient K etc. They're Christians but they get it too. Second, I am a Christian myself, and the whole heart-bursting, proclaming-from-the-rooftops feeling of romance in this beautiful song is not lost on me. It is not "us people" who think God's there when He's not (though I'm not diminishing His importance at all), it is simple-minded people who don't know better.Christians are no less human than anyone else. We're all just people.