"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.
Got the shades pulled down
He's all by himself now
Swallowing the pill that makes him feel alive
Is it getting better?
No,it made things so much worse
As it slowly slips inside his head
Through his nerves
and spilling out in verbs
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone all shook up
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone,everyone
It's not the same when all you want is never hard to get to
Take a look at your faces
Now they're haunting you!
Then he'll light the match
That will burn him brightest
Slides the needle in
That will make him highest
Another star struck down, another symbol of our time
I always knew it would turn against him
But now he's got those big headlines
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone all shook up
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone,everyone
It's not the same when all you want is never hard to get to
Take a look at your faces
Now they're haunting you!
Take a look, take a look, take a look at yourself!
Can anybody find the man he used to be?
Can anybody find the man before the dream?
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone all shook up
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone,everyone
It's not the same when all you want is never hard to get to
Take a look at your faces
Now they're haunting you!
He's all by himself now
Swallowing the pill that makes him feel alive
Is it getting better?
No,it made things so much worse
As it slowly slips inside his head
Through his nerves
and spilling out in verbs
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone all shook up
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone,everyone
It's not the same when all you want is never hard to get to
Take a look at your faces
Now they're haunting you!
Then he'll light the match
That will burn him brightest
Slides the needle in
That will make him highest
Another star struck down, another symbol of our time
I always knew it would turn against him
But now he's got those big headlines
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone all shook up
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone,everyone
It's not the same when all you want is never hard to get to
Take a look at your faces
Now they're haunting you!
Take a look, take a look, take a look at yourself!
Can anybody find the man he used to be?
Can anybody find the man before the dream?
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone all shook up
Take a look at your faces
You've got everyone,everyone
It's not the same when all you want is never hard to get to
Take a look at your faces
Now they're haunting you!
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
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"Some and now none of you"
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i think this is about the effect suicide or death in general can have on your loved ones
I disagree, I think it's pretty clearly about drug use and the effects of it. "Swallowing the pill that makes him feel alive" Also, it talks about the effects "Is it getting better? No,it made things so much worse" & "Can anybody find the man he used to be? Can anybody find the man before the dream?" And it talks about the people around the one who uses the drugs and how they see him "Take a look at your faces You've got everyone all shook up Take a look at your faces"
the song was orignally titled "Game OVERdose (Heath Ledger)" if i remember right so i think i meant to put in something about drug over dose in my first comment but the reason i think its about suicide is this line
Take a look at your faces You've got everyone all shook up
just seems like suicide to me