"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.
They invented a reason
That's why it stings
They don't think you matter
Because you don't have pretty rings
I keep telling you I don't care
I keep saying there's one thing they can't change
I'm your moon
You're my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
Let them shuffle the numbers
Watch them come and go
We're the ones who are out here
Out past the edge of what they know
We can only be who we are
It doesn't matter if they don't understand
I'm your moon
You're my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
Who you were
Long before
They said you were
No more
Sad excuse for a sunrise
It's so cold out here
Ice and silence and dark skies
As we go round another year
Let them think what they like, we're fine
I will always be right here next to you
I'm your moon
You're my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
That's why it stings
They don't think you matter
Because you don't have pretty rings
I keep telling you I don't care
I keep saying there's one thing they can't change
I'm your moon
You're my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
Let them shuffle the numbers
Watch them come and go
We're the ones who are out here
Out past the edge of what they know
We can only be who we are
It doesn't matter if they don't understand
I'm your moon
You're my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
Who you were
Long before
They said you were
No more
Sad excuse for a sunrise
It's so cold out here
Ice and silence and dark skies
As we go round another year
Let them think what they like, we're fine
I will always be right here next to you
I'm your moon
You're my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small
Promise me
You will always remember who you are
Lyrics submitted by delial
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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it is a love song to pluto, but it is sung to pluto by Charon (its moon). however, since they're basically the same size, and since they technically orbit around eachother, pluto can also be considered Charon's moon. "i'm your moon, you're my moon." only JoCo could pull this off, and he did with flying colors. great music, great lyrics, great man.
Is it weird that I find this song strangely touching?
@Harpo_53 No. Not weird at all.
It's a love song to pluto....
makes me sad...
It's ok Pluto, I'm not a planet either
So unique. This is why I love Coulton.
it is a love song to pluto, but it is sung to pluto by Charon (its moon). however, since they're basically the same size, and since they technically orbit around eachother, pluto can also be considered Charon's moon. "i'm your moon, you're my moon." only JoCo could pull this off, and he did with flying colors. great music, great lyrics, great man.
sry this posted twice, internet messed up a bit. if this reply posts twice it's for the same reason.
This song was written in 2006; not long after Pluto's reclassification to minor planet status after more than 70 years as ninth planet from the sun. The event was met with many responses; many had anger, knowing Pluto well since childhood; and at a to-scale model of the solar system in Washington State at the display of Pluto there was an im-promptu 'memorial' for Pluto - complete with flowers and a farewell letter signed by the eight remaining planets. Pluto was the only planet discovered in the 20th century; and the only one discovered by an American. But for Jonathan Coulton, naturally, his response came in form of a song - and here he was thinking of Charon being the one singing to Pluto how 'I don't care'. Charon is Pluto's largest satellite - being about half of Pluto's own size; that many astronomers in fact think of Pluto and Charon as two [minor] planets in mutual orbit - as opposed to a more conventional planet-and-moon system. And so it makes a nice setting for a love song; The charactor of Charon here is presented as one of warmth, comfort and loving indifference - in stark contrast to the cold, icy surface of Charon as alluded to in the song! Later on Coulton would say about the song that he has noticed just how many people have used the song to relate to their own lives and relationships - and he says that now when he hears the song, instead of thinking of Pluto, he now thinks about what the song means to all these other people. And this is something Coulton finds beauty in.