"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.
Is it dark, where you are?
Can you count the stars where you are?
Do you feel like you are a thousand miles from home?
Are you lost, where you are?
Can you find your way when you're so far?
Do you fear, where you are?
A thousand nights alone
So here we are set into motion
We'll steal a car and crash in the ocean
You and I, caught in a fading light
On the longest night
It's enough, just to find love
It's the only thing to be sure of
So hard, to let go of
A thousand times or more
I was close to a fault line
Heaven knows, you showed up in time
Was it real?
Now I feel, like I'm never coming down
So here we are, set into motion
Steal a car, crash in the ocean
You and I, caught in a fading light
On the longest night
I recall when we were together
Even now it seems like forever
So alive caught in a fading light
On the longest night
Can we go too far to find, what is waiting here?
A little fall from grace
On the longest night
Did we go too far to find, what is waiting here?
We'll take a little time, to open again
Is it dark where you are?
Can you count the stars where you are?
Can you count the stars where you are?
Do you feel like you are a thousand miles from home?
Are you lost, where you are?
Can you find your way when you're so far?
Do you fear, where you are?
A thousand nights alone
So here we are set into motion
We'll steal a car and crash in the ocean
You and I, caught in a fading light
On the longest night
It's enough, just to find love
It's the only thing to be sure of
So hard, to let go of
A thousand times or more
I was close to a fault line
Heaven knows, you showed up in time
Was it real?
Now I feel, like I'm never coming down
So here we are, set into motion
Steal a car, crash in the ocean
You and I, caught in a fading light
On the longest night
I recall when we were together
Even now it seems like forever
So alive caught in a fading light
On the longest night
Can we go too far to find, what is waiting here?
A little fall from grace
On the longest night
Did we go too far to find, what is waiting here?
We'll take a little time, to open again
Is it dark where you are?
Can you count the stars where you are?
Lyrics submitted by ghostafteryou45
Longest Night Lyrics as written by Howie Day Jay Clifford
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The lyrics on this site are wrong.. how can you not tell that the lyrics don't make sense before posting them? Anyway, I listened to the song and the correct lyrics are:
is it dark where you are can you count the stars where you are do you feel like you are a thousand miles from home are you lost where you are can you find your way when you're so far do you fear where you are a thousand nights alone so here we are, set into motion we'll steal a car and crash in the ocean you and I, caught in a fading light on the longest night it's enough just to find love it's the only thing to be sure of so hard to let go of a thousand times or more I was close to a fault line Heaven knows you showed up in time was it real now I feel like I'm never coming down so here we are, set into motion steal a car, crash in the ocean you and I, caught in a fading light on the longest night I recall when we were together even now it seems like forever so alive, caught in a fading light on the longest night can we go too far to find what is waiting here a little fall from grace on the longest night can we go too far to find what is waiting here it'll take a little time to open up again is it dark where you are can you count the stars where you are
this song reminds me of a summer romance cause most of mine are away at camp, a thousand miles from home underneath a thousand stars. and theres always that one night thats the greatest and better than the rest, and its the longest night.