"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.
Every time you go
Every time you go
It starts with a picture
And it sits in your frame
And we part with a letter
And it ends in my name
And it starts with forever
And it ends with a touch
And I know that you're clever
And I don't ask for much
Maybe we forgot all the things we are when we are together
You said I'm arresting
You said I had heat
I really thought that we'd go further
The second time we meet
'Cause I'm tired of trying to keep you
All I want to do is sleep
And perhaps, when I'm sleeping
You'll get back on your feet
Maybe we forgot all the things we are when we are together
Wake me up, wake me up
Stop my fall
Every time you go
Tape me up, then break me up
Ever so gently
When I'm at my weakest
It's not so hard
Every time you go
I run out to meet you
When I knew the storm had come
And I felt the rain on your face
And the damage you have done
I know what you're thinking
It will never be the end
And when the storm is over
You won't see me again
Didn't know the price I paid
For all the times I stayed when we were together
Wake me up, wake me up
Stop my fall
Every time you go
Tape me up, then break me up
Ever so gently
When I'm at my weakest
It's not so hard
Maybe we forgot, are we awake, or not?
Maybe we forgot, are we awake, or not?
Maybe we forgot, are we awake, or not?
Or maybe we forgot
Wake me up, wake me up
Stop my fall
Every time you go
Tape me up, then break me up
Ever so gently
When I'm at my weakest
Wake me up, wake me up
Stop my fall
Every time you go
Tape me up, then break me up
Ever so gently
When I'm at my weakest
It's not so hard
Every time you go
Every time you go
It starts with a picture
And it sits in your frame
And we part with a letter
And it ends in my name
And it starts with forever
And it ends with a touch
And I know that you're clever
And I don't ask for much
Maybe we forgot all the things we are when we are together
You said I'm arresting
You said I had heat
I really thought that we'd go further
The second time we meet
'Cause I'm tired of trying to keep you
All I want to do is sleep
And perhaps, when I'm sleeping
You'll get back on your feet
Maybe we forgot all the things we are when we are together
Wake me up, wake me up
Stop my fall
Every time you go
Tape me up, then break me up
Ever so gently
When I'm at my weakest
It's not so hard
Every time you go
I run out to meet you
When I knew the storm had come
And I felt the rain on your face
And the damage you have done
I know what you're thinking
It will never be the end
And when the storm is over
You won't see me again
Didn't know the price I paid
For all the times I stayed when we were together
Wake me up, wake me up
Stop my fall
Every time you go
Tape me up, then break me up
Ever so gently
When I'm at my weakest
It's not so hard
Maybe we forgot, are we awake, or not?
Maybe we forgot, are we awake, or not?
Maybe we forgot, are we awake, or not?
Or maybe we forgot
Wake me up, wake me up
Stop my fall
Every time you go
Tape me up, then break me up
Ever so gently
When I'm at my weakest
Wake me up, wake me up
Stop my fall
Every time you go
Tape me up, then break me up
Ever so gently
When I'm at my weakest
It's not so hard
Every time you go
Lyrics submitted by fraaaazeer
Every Time You Go Lyrics as written by Finlay Graham Dow Smith Elena Jane Goulding
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Love this song. I thought it said : 'and it ends in my name' not 'one name' but I don't know.. Also, on the chorus, I heard it as 'Wake me up, wake me, I'll stop my foreword when I'm at my weakest'. Not sure about 'foreword' but she definitely says 'Wake me up, wake me I'll..' instead of 'Wake me up' twice. I only have the demo though, so obviously I won't know if it's changed for the final version :)
i've made the changes, thank you for pointing them out :)<br /> i'm not sure what the bit after ''wake me.. i'll''<br /> so i just left it like that.<br /> hopefully somebody else will know haha. :D
In the final version I'm pretty sure she says 'Wake me up, wake me up, stop my fall when I'm at my weakest', which makes sense to me.<br /> She also puts the second verse ('you said I'm arresting' etc) at the end of the first verse before the chorus, and adds in a new second verse:<br /> <br /> I ran out to meet you<br /> When I knew the storm had come<br /> And I felt the storm on your face<br /> And the damage you had done.<br /> I know what you're thinking:<br /> 'It'll never be the end,<br /> And when the storm is over<br /> You won't see me again".<br /> <br /> Do you know the price I paid for all the times I stayed <br /> When we were together?<br /> <br /> Looooove this song :)