"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.
Put me on the train, send me back to my home
Couldn't live without you when I tried to roam
Put me by the window, let me see outside
Looking at the places where all my family died
Couldn't live without you when I tried to roam
Put me by the window, let me see outside
Looking at the places where all my family died
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Pale Horses Lyrics as written by Richard Melville Hall
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when i heard this song i imagined a war victim...
Exactly what I thought. Like, the apparition of a war victim, whose "family" perhaps was fellow soldiers who made it on the train back home.
This is one of those songs with an odd line that sounds like something ridiculous.
"where all my family died"... sounds like: "come on family guy" lol.
pale horses... i looked for it, and it came the death on a pale horse.
so, y re-read the lyrics, and came to the conclusion that this song is about suicide. more especificaly "dying on sorrow" , a goodbye letter.
it should say "I re-red" .
BTW: Moby said that this album in particular is connected from beginning to the end, so the rest of the songs probably talk about something similar
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The first thing I thought of was overall anguish and loss, like the main character had lost his family/friends and was trying to get that love he lost back, but realized in the end that losing the most important people in your life is hard to reverse. The alien in the video kept trying to make himself happy by fabricating joyful experiences, but the universe erased those quickly and deepened his depressed state. I listened to this song a lot when I was so bogged down by school and had kind of an emotional separation from my family for a little while; I had basically lost what little happiness I had and that was tough to handle. I also think this song especially alludes to death and suicide.