"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.
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm of legs moving in the sun
The rhythm of an engine deep and throating
The rhythm of a summer that you walked in
The sound of a barking dog on a loop
A plane rises in the crystal blue
The rhythm of keys swinging in your hand
The rhythm of light coming out of your fingers
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
The rhythm of wheels the rhythm of heels
As we fall into the sun
She walk on silver she walk on gold
Paints I love you on the alley walls
From the eyes that hide behind black glasses
Sunlight hits tell me what she passes
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
And I don't know if I love you more
Than the way you used to love me
And I don't know if I need you more
Than the way you used to need me
But it's
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm
The rhythm of legs moving in the sun
The rhythm of an engine deep and throating
The rhythm of a summer that you walked in
The sound of a barking dog on a loop
A plane rises in the crystal blue
The rhythm of keys swinging in your hand
The rhythm of light coming out of your fingers
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
The rhythm of wheels the rhythm of heels
As we fall into the sun
She walk on silver she walk on gold
Paints I love you on the alley walls
From the eyes that hide behind black glasses
Sunlight hits tell me what she passes
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
And I don't know if I love you more
Than the way you used to love me
And I don't know if I need you more
Than the way you used to need me
But it's
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Heaven, heaven
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Heaven, heaven
Lyrics submitted by Hydroxious
Always Loved a Film Lyrics as written by Richard David Smith Karl Hyde
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Mute Song Limited, Peermusic Publishing
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Like most of you, I'm driven to know the meaning of this song. It just has that timeless feeling, you know, like love at first sight.
It starts out and continues to emphasize a basic rhythm of life, one can imagine all sorts of normal activities transpiring to the rhythm of the song. That HEAVY 4/4 beat the "heartbeat" when your dancing. So your picturing people walking on the beach and their steps are in tune to the beat of this song---- then your mind travels to a ferris wheel stopping the rays of the sun from hitting your eyes, in time to this song----- this has ever happened to you ??? If you listen to music on headphones especially, you tend to perform your actions in time with the song right? "Can you feel it"? "Heaven." (philosophical musings about life lived in rhythm being a kind of heaven?)
"As we fall into the sun----" the sun is the source of light and movement, so if we fell into the sun it would imply that we are falling headfirst into rhythm of a visual and rhythmic kind.....(?)
she walk on silver, she walk on gold---- paints i love you on the alley walls--- from the eyes that hid ebehidn black glasses sunlight hits everyone she passes...
Man I dont know. This part confuses me. ! The title is implying that when one listens to a song they see a film in their mind, and he's "always loved a film?" so why not? (guessing remember)
k. I'm done--- probably sounds insane but that's what I'm guessing hahah.