"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.
Colored rubbers and a bedroom set
I wouldn't know it if it hit me
You take a little step and then it feels like love
I think I better get a little of it in me
Give me a kiss
I think it feels like love
Give me a kiss
I think it feels like sunshine
C'mon baby, light me up
I wanna look into your eyes until I go blind and...
[Chorus]
You think that you can do without me
I can't do anything at all
You think that you can do without me
But I don't believe in Sundays
And I don't believe in anything at all
Your mother make you in a parking lot
My mother made me out of flesh and wire
Try to remember what you might forget
I try to remember everything
Try to remember so you don't disappear
Try to remember so you don't fade away
Your mother made you out of smoke and rain
Your mother made you in a fire that's faded
[Chorus]
I wanna touch you for the things I'm losing
I wanna touch you for my self-respect
Give me a reason or I might stop breathing
Give me a reason why I'm soaking wet
Gotta stop breathing cause the sky is falling
I might go out and watch the moon explode
Give me directions to the highway crossing
I'll go lie down in the middle of the road
[Chorus]
I don't believe in Sundays
And I don't believe in anything at all
I don't believe in anything at all
I wouldn't know it if it hit me
You take a little step and then it feels like love
I think I better get a little of it in me
Give me a kiss
I think it feels like love
Give me a kiss
I think it feels like sunshine
C'mon baby, light me up
I wanna look into your eyes until I go blind and...
[Chorus]
You think that you can do without me
I can't do anything at all
You think that you can do without me
But I don't believe in Sundays
And I don't believe in anything at all
Your mother make you in a parking lot
My mother made me out of flesh and wire
Try to remember what you might forget
I try to remember everything
Try to remember so you don't disappear
Try to remember so you don't fade away
Your mother made you out of smoke and rain
Your mother made you in a fire that's faded
[Chorus]
I wanna touch you for the things I'm losing
I wanna touch you for my self-respect
Give me a reason or I might stop breathing
Give me a reason why I'm soaking wet
Gotta stop breathing cause the sky is falling
I might go out and watch the moon explode
Give me directions to the highway crossing
I'll go lie down in the middle of the road
[Chorus]
I don't believe in Sundays
And I don't believe in anything at all
I don't believe in anything at all
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I don't believe the album was crap but if you did I wish you had a little more feedback. This song is about the an unbalanced one sided love/lust affect. I can't do anything at all" is the feeling you get when you feel for someone but can't figure out why they don't. Every chance you get you look at your partners eyes to see if they pick up on how useless you are.
Ya know, I really liked this song when it first cued up, but then when it opened up to the "You think that you can do without me" it jumped up to amazing. I love how it just...expands and opens up into this completely different song.
Love the lyrics. Sounds like a search for love? And the constant quest to differentiate between love and lust? Who knows...the quest to believe in something, to try believing in another person even though you know they will most likely fail you?
"I don't believe in Sundays, and I don't believe and I don't believe in anything," I don't think any other singer could pull that off quite like Adam. He really convinces you of it...because he seems to believe what he sings, he really makes you feel what he's singing about. I think we can all relate to not believing in Sundays, to not believing in aything, least of all love.
Last Chorus/Outro the band sings "In Love" over Adam singing "How can I believe in anything"?
This is why the I love the Crows... you feel it... I don't quite get that with any other artists...
I agree with you, thecoldpart, really think it's about differentiating between love and lust.
One of my favorite songs on the CD, probably cause it's kinda upbeat but not really.
Your mother made you in a parking lot - ha
Your mother made you in a parking lot - ha
Sounds to me like it is a song about a girl leaving him. She claims that she can live without him, but he realizes that he can't live without her. Even though he didn't have a sexual relationship with her he didn't need it, he was in love. She left or threatened to and said walking away would be easy. He knows that his 'moon will explode' without her. I think "I don't believe in Sundays" is a way of saying the he won't make it to the end of the week without her. Not believing in anything make be him admitting that love doesn't exist.
I love the chorus and tthe.. post-chorus thing the versus though.. ehh. the lyrics are great- but It's to peppy compared to the chorus.
I don't beleive in sunday's either. so I like it.
Did anyone else realize then new album was crap?