"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.
Those eyes
Those eyes
Those eyes
Those eyes were sharp like sharpest knife.
When I see you and I'm going away
You help me get to the things that you will do
And say when I see you and I'm going away
You help me get to the things that you will do
And say
Those eyes
Those eyes
Those eyes
Those eyes were sharp like sharpest knife.
When I see you and I'm going away
You help me get to the things that you will do
And say when I see you and I'm going away
You help me get to the things that you will do
And say
And I feel
And I feel
And I feel
Like an insect
(and i feel)
You make me feel (and i feel)
You make me feel (and i feel)
Like an insect
Leads to no nowhere
Coats on your chair
Like an insect
Those eyes
Those eyes
Those eyes were sharp like sharpest knife.
When I see you and I'm going away
You help me get to the things that you will do
And say when I see you and I'm going away
You help me get to the things that you will do
And say
Those eyes
Those eyes
Those eyes
Those eyes were sharp like sharpest knife.
When I see you and I'm going away
You help me get to the things that you will do
And say when I see you and I'm going away
You help me get to the things that you will do
And say
And I feel
And I feel
And I feel
Like an insect
(and i feel)
You make me feel (and i feel)
You make me feel (and i feel)
Like an insect
Leads to no nowhere
Coats on your chair
Like an insect
Lyrics submitted by IceCuban06
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Pretty sure the end should be
Lost in your web Caught in your trap Like an insect
Also should be.<br /> <br /> You hold me captive with the things that you do and say.
I think this song is about how one feels in a relationship "feeling like an insect", refers to feeling inferior. "Those eyes" "sharp like sharpest knife". Eye contact is one of the strongest forms of communication. And simply "those eyes" are able to cut like "sharpest knife". And "knife" representing some form of pain for the other. I think this song presents an imbalance of power in a relationship. The one who posesses "those eyes" is able to control the other who is "going away" trying to leave the relationship, but in turn is convinced to come back "with the things that you do and say", even though they "feel like an insect".
I believe it's: "Those eyes were sharp like sharpest knife".
I think its 'you help me captivate the things that you do'
good song, have no idea what it's about though
well actually this song can be interpreted in a number of different ways. The eyes could also represent an element of lust. Like seeing someone across the room, that their eyes are able to cut through the crowd, in order to draw the other. Feeling like an insect could also mean feeling like they're being watched. And also when they are about to leave, the eyes draw them back.