"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.
Hey Lucy, I remember your name
I left a dozen roses on your grave today
I'm in the grass on my knees, wipe the leaves away
I just came to talk for a while
I got some things I need to say
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I've gotta live with the choices I made
And I can't live with myself today
Hey Lucy, I remembered your birthday
They said it'd bring some closure to say your name
I know I'd do it all different if I had the chance
But all I got are these roses to give
And they can't help me make amends
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I've gotta live with the choices I made
And I can't live with myself today
Here we are
Now you're in my arms
I never wanted anything so bad
Here we are
For a brand new start
Living the life that we could've had
Me and Lucy walking hand in hand
Me and Lucy never wanna end
Just another moment in your eyes
I'll see you in another life
In heaven where we never say goodbye
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I've gotta live with the choices I made
And I can't live with myself today
Here we are, now you're in my arms
Here we are for a brand new start
Got to live with the choices I've made
And I can't live with myself today
Me and Lucy walking hand in hand (today)
Me and Lucy never wanna end
Got to live with the choices I've made
And I can't live with myself today
Hey Lucy, I remember your name
I left a dozen roses on your grave today
I'm in the grass on my knees, wipe the leaves away
I just came to talk for a while
I got some things I need to say
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I've gotta live with the choices I made
And I can't live with myself today
Hey Lucy, I remembered your birthday
They said it'd bring some closure to say your name
I know I'd do it all different if I had the chance
But all I got are these roses to give
And they can't help me make amends
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I've gotta live with the choices I made
And I can't live with myself today
Here we are
Now you're in my arms
I never wanted anything so bad
Here we are
For a brand new start
Living the life that we could've had
Me and Lucy walking hand in hand
Me and Lucy never wanna end
Just another moment in your eyes
I'll see you in another life
In heaven where we never say goodbye
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me
Now that it's over
I just wanna hold her
I've gotta live with the choices I made
And I can't live with myself today
Here we are, now you're in my arms
Here we are for a brand new start
Got to live with the choices I've made
And I can't live with myself today
Me and Lucy walking hand in hand (today)
Me and Lucy never wanna end
Got to live with the choices I've made
And I can't live with myself today
Hey Lucy, I remember your name
Lyrics submitted by aristuma21
Lucy Lyrics as written by John Landrum Cooper John Cooper
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Everyone keeps saying this is about abortion and such, but to me its different.
A few years ago I had a boyfriend who's dad had brain cancer, and he would always go stay and help him out, well he left his camera at his dads house and I wanted him to send me a picture so he went to get it from his dads house and he found his dad dead. After that he went home emailed me one last time and committed suicide cause his dad was all he had left.
It was basically my fault he died...it wouldnt have happened if I wouldnt have asked him to get that picture...and I regret it everyday of my life. (I've gotta live with the choices i made And I can't live with myself today)
The only thing that keeps me going is knowing ill see him again someday...(for those of you who believe people who kill themselves go to hell keep it to yourself I dont wanna hear it cause I dont believe they do.) and thats where the part of the song:
"Just another moment in your eyes I'll see you in another life In heaven where we never say goodbye"
helps me. But hey everyone has their own opinions,thats just how I take the song.
RIP Derrick "Now that it's over I just wanna hold him I'd give up all the world to see that little piece of heaven looking back at me"
To me this song feels like a knife tearing at my heart. I see it as a guy who lost the love of his life. I see myself and the mistakes i've made. I see the love of my life who got away. This song makes me realize how much i truely love her and it conveys my emotions exactly as they would be if anything ever happened to her. "I gotta live with the choices i make and i can't live with myself today." The choices i've made leave me unable to protect her but if anything ever happened to her i could never live with myself. She has no idea how i feel and i don't think i'll ever be able to tell her.
hey, that's awesome that you can keep going. I was suicidal and there are only two people that can say they saved my life. they wouldn't have known it if I hadn't told them. <br /> <br /> that's why we don't need to know why someone wrote a song. it changes lives if you don't know.
what a terrible and unbelievably sad story! im like in tears beyond! i wanted to let you know that i have 37 ppl on the first fw email praying for your heart to heal! Jesus loves you so much and i do too! it sounds like you had a very close relationship with your boyfriend and im so grateful to skillet for writing songs like this so that hurting people like you and i can relate and feel some form of comfort! its good to cry! and you cry whenever you feel like it okay? it will get better! i cant imagine your pain! as for your father, if you kill him with kindness and try to work on your end of the relationship things will come around! ITS NOT YOUR FAULT! none of it! not your bf, not anything your father blames you for! God has a plan for everything! and he wants you to run to him and fall in his arms! i know im a complete stranger but i felt moved to write you! i also am aware that this is so soppy and you posted months ago, but Jesus told me to so im being obedient! we all love you! ~ Heather
Soaring falcon: i will be praying for u every day. i lost my daddy when my step mom broke his heart one too many times.... you will see your friend again.... my god takes the sick into his arms and holds them when they come to the pearly gates.... certainly anyone who feels their only way to heal is suicide is sick and sick in a way that many of us will never understand
@soaringfalcon2010, I just wanna reach thru my phone and give u a hug. sorry for ur loss<br />