"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.
I'm not yours, and you're not mine
But we can sit and pass the time
No fighting wars, no ringing chimes
We're just feeling fine
This is where we're supposed to be
Sitting by a broken tree
No tragedy, no poetry
Just staring at the sky
I could wait a thousand hours
Stay the same in sun and showers
Pick apart a hundred flowers
Just to be quiet
Tell me when you feel ready
I'm the one, there's not too many
Hold my hand to keep me steady
Just to be quiet with you
With you
I like it here beside you dear
You're even more than you appear
And in the clouds my head is clear
Every time you say hello
So here's my heart, and here's my mouth
And I can't help if things come out
'Cause there are words I want to shout
But maybe I'll stay low
I could wait a thousand hours
Stay the same in sun and showers
Pick apart a hundred flowers
Just to be quiet
Tell me when you feel ready
I'm the one, there's not too many
Hold my hand to keep me steady
Just to be quiet
I could wait a thousand hours
Stay the same in sun and showers
Pick apart a hundred flowers
Just to be quiet
Tell me when you feel ready
I'm the one, there's not too many
Hold my hand to keep me steady
Just to be quiet with you
With you
With you
With you
With you (I'm not yours, and you're not mine but we can sit and pass the time)
With you
With you (I'm not yours, and you're not mine but we can sit and pass the time)
With you
But we can sit and pass the time
No fighting wars, no ringing chimes
We're just feeling fine
This is where we're supposed to be
Sitting by a broken tree
No tragedy, no poetry
Just staring at the sky
I could wait a thousand hours
Stay the same in sun and showers
Pick apart a hundred flowers
Just to be quiet
Tell me when you feel ready
I'm the one, there's not too many
Hold my hand to keep me steady
Just to be quiet with you
With you
I like it here beside you dear
You're even more than you appear
And in the clouds my head is clear
Every time you say hello
So here's my heart, and here's my mouth
And I can't help if things come out
'Cause there are words I want to shout
But maybe I'll stay low
I could wait a thousand hours
Stay the same in sun and showers
Pick apart a hundred flowers
Just to be quiet
Tell me when you feel ready
I'm the one, there's not too many
Hold my hand to keep me steady
Just to be quiet
I could wait a thousand hours
Stay the same in sun and showers
Pick apart a hundred flowers
Just to be quiet
Tell me when you feel ready
I'm the one, there's not too many
Hold my hand to keep me steady
Just to be quiet with you
With you
With you
With you
With you (I'm not yours, and you're not mine but we can sit and pass the time)
With you
With you (I'm not yours, and you're not mine but we can sit and pass the time)
With you
Lyrics submitted by someowlsgo
Quiet Lyrics as written by Valerie Poxleitner David Thomson
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The first time I heard the beginning of this song, my mouth dropped wide open. And then I replayed the beginning over and over again. xD
I love the beginning so much. It has that cultural sound to it, and then it zooms into that outer-spacey kind of sound. It's like an image of the Taj Mahal at night or something, then zooming the camera up and up until you see all the stars and planets in space... I don't know. xD
Anyway, I think that the song is just about being quiet and enjoying life. She can wait a thousand hours, just staying like that with the person she loves, whether it's a friend, a family member, a boyfriend, or - if you want to take the Christian look at it like I usually do xD - God. For me, I like to think of it as God, because it's amazing to think about spending 'a thousand hours' with him. But basically, it's anyone that makes her feel happy.
LIGHTS said that she wants her songs to feel outer-spacey. I think that this song accomplishes that goal the most. Without a doubt.
That's a really cool view on it. :) I guess you could relate it to God, feeling at peace and calm when you're quiet, just listening to His voice. How God gives you perfect peace.