"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.
White white white white
White white white white
Are there oceans full of things you never see?
Are there skylines of the cities you don't see?
Is there music muted playing underneath?
Is mathematics keeping you from thinking free?
Do you see lights?
Turn your shadows white
White white white white
White white white white
Don't let rain clouds
Cloud all of your parades
Let the other side of darkness kiss your face
Into the sea, into the sea
Do you see lights?
Turn your shadows white
Do you feel bright?
Turn your shadows white
All the things I want to say
All the shadows in the way
Do you see lights?
Turn your shadows white
Do you feel bright?
Turn your shadows white
White white white white
White white white white
White white white white
Are there oceans full of things you never see?
Are there skylines of the cities you don't see?
Is there music muted playing underneath?
Is mathematics keeping you from thinking free?
Do you see lights?
Turn your shadows white
White white white white
White white white white
Don't let rain clouds
Cloud all of your parades
Let the other side of darkness kiss your face
Into the sea, into the sea
Do you see lights?
Turn your shadows white
Do you feel bright?
Turn your shadows white
All the things I want to say
All the shadows in the way
Do you see lights?
Turn your shadows white
Do you feel bright?
Turn your shadows white
White white white white
White white white white
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White Lyrics as written by Valerie Poxleitner Thomas Salter
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Lights is a Christian and from that stand point its easy to see what she's actually writing about here.
This song is about not letting sins from your past keep you from moving forward.
The pre chorus for example:
"Do you see lights turn your shadows white Do you feel bright, turn your shadows white"
Like I said before light is a metaphor for God, and through His forgiveness enabled by Christ's death, we our turned to white (a metaphor for purity) and striped of our shadows (aka sin)
And also:
"Don't let rain clouds cry at all of your parades Let the other side of darkness kiss your face Into the sea, into the sea."
The first line here has obvious meaning. In context to sin it would mean not to let sins from the past ruin the love and life you should be living. This leads right into the next line.
What is the other side of darkness? In the Bible light and dark is a contrasted all the time as a metaphor for good and evil, God and satan. So what's the other side of darkness, it's God. Allowing Him to kiss your face is away of letting Him in and excepting His forgiveness, as a lot of people feel they have to "get over" their sins before they can come to God, but instead to "get over" them they have to go to Him.
"Into the seas, into the sea" is my favorite part of this song. It has this really nice nostalgic feel for me. In the Bible it says that God tosses our sins into the sea to be forgotten forever. Moreover, it says to the very bottom of the sea. This is supposed to help us understand that once our sins are forgiven they are gone for good, and if we don't let them go that is sin itself because God said they are gone for good, and not letting them go is an act of defying God.
I hit submit before I could edit my post, but its all good. Though when I said, "pre chorus" it should have said just "chorus".<br /> <br /> I really like the line, "Is mathematics keeping you from thinking free" because I don't like math. As mathematics being used here as an example for something that is exact which in return is very binding, I won't go into the meaning behind this line, but I think other Christians can relate to it a lot.<br /> <br /> Great song, I think my favorite Lights song EVER!