"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 can fly like a bird, not in the sky
which can always swim and always dry
I say goodbye at night and morning hi
I'm part of you, what am I
I follow and lead as you pass
dress yourself in black, my darkness lasts
I flee the light but without the sun
Your view of me would be gone
I can see the damage that
I am causing you is so benign
You want me to be gone
But I have just begun
I am the only one "undone"
I'm a broken miracle now
in your head
I don't feel
Like I am real
But I know
It's all imaginary
Are they real
And do they feel
Is all the pain
just inside my head
I am what men love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What dead men have and rich require
I'm what contented men desire
You want me to be gone
But I have just begun
You will never know how far I've come
What goes up must never come back down
In your head
I don't feel
Like I am real
But I know
It's all imaginary
Are they real
And do they feel
Is all the pain
just inside my head
It's all inside my head
It's just inside my
It's all inside my
They're all inside my
I see them always but they're
all inside my head
all inside my head
they're all inside my head
It's killing me
to see I'm killing you
Death is magic
Say Abracadavre now
You see me now you
Don't cry when I am gone
These shackles they come
With certain opportunities
They won't let me get away
But they show me we're the same
we're the same
we're the same
They show me that we are the same
I can't give in
I won't give in
It's not a state of mind
I'm wretched but I'm powerful and
I don't feel
Like I am real
But I know
It's all imaginary
Are they real
And do they feel
Is all the pain
just inside my head
It's all inside my head
It's just inside my
It's all inside my
They're all inside my
I see them always but they're
all inside my head
all inside my head
they're all inside my head
which can always swim and always dry
I say goodbye at night and morning hi
I'm part of you, what am I
I follow and lead as you pass
dress yourself in black, my darkness lasts
I flee the light but without the sun
Your view of me would be gone
I can see the damage that
I am causing you is so benign
You want me to be gone
But I have just begun
I am the only one "undone"
I'm a broken miracle now
in your head
I don't feel
Like I am real
But I know
It's all imaginary
Are they real
And do they feel
Is all the pain
just inside my head
I am what men love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What dead men have and rich require
I'm what contented men desire
You want me to be gone
But I have just begun
You will never know how far I've come
What goes up must never come back down
In your head
I don't feel
Like I am real
But I know
It's all imaginary
Are they real
And do they feel
Is all the pain
just inside my head
It's all inside my head
It's just inside my
It's all inside my
They're all inside my
I see them always but they're
all inside my head
all inside my head
they're all inside my head
It's killing me
to see I'm killing you
Death is magic
Say Abracadavre now
You see me now you
Don't cry when I am gone
These shackles they come
With certain opportunities
They won't let me get away
But they show me we're the same
we're the same
we're the same
They show me that we are the same
I can't give in
I won't give in
It's not a state of mind
I'm wretched but I'm powerful and
I don't feel
Like I am real
But I know
It's all imaginary
Are they real
And do they feel
Is all the pain
just inside my head
It's all inside my head
It's just inside my
It's all inside my
They're all inside my
I see them always but they're
all inside my head
all inside my head
they're all inside my head
Lyrics submitted by XBeyondBirthdayX, edited by ozzy22
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the first and second verses are both riddles. "I can fly like a bird, not in the sky, which can always swim yet always dry." what flies like a bird and swims in the water, yet never leaves the ground, and never gets wet? lets hear som more... "say goodbye at night and morning hi. i'm a part of you: what am i?" what goes away during the night and returns in the morning, and is a part of you (including the first example above)? YOUR SHADOW!
the second verse goes something like this: "i am what men love more than life; fear more than death or mortal strife" What do men love more than life, yet fear more than death or strife? we need to hear a little more: "what dead men have and rich require; i'm what contented men desire." what do dead men have that rich men do not? what do contented, or happy men want? the answer is NOTHING. men love NOTHING more than life and fear NOTHING more than death or strife. Dead men have NOTHING and rich men need NOTHING. and happy men desire NOTHING. make sense? well, if not, i can't explain further.'
ELENA'S VOCALS: when she says the lines: "i can see tha damage that i am causing you is so benign" she means that she is aware that she's causing you pain, but she believes its not important. she does not care for your pain. when she says: "you want me to be gone, but i have just be-GUN!!!" she is saying that even if you try to force her to stop her actions, she has not been satisfied and has 'just begun'. "i am the only one undone!! i'm a broken miracle now-!" i interpret this as her more evil side (hence the louder, angrier voice) saying that she's the one who is in pain and nothing can be done to stop her wrath.
CHORUS: here's a major part to the song: the chorus of the song basically stating that samantha isn't sure if she's really there, if she's just s SHADOW, or NOTHING at all (riddles?). she also states theat she thinks all the pain is just inside her head. this is an important line which states how she decides to either fade away like a forgotten spirit, or try and exact her revenge i=on Richtofan and the gang.
probably the most simple sections of the song is the bridge. she states: "these shackes they come with certain opertunities" which means that even though she has no hope of being anything but a spirit in geat pain, she has the power to try and kill richtofan. she also states that she is "wretched but powerful". this means that even isf she is so horrible, being dead, she does however have incredible power, the ability to raise the dead and attack richtofan with endless waves and hordes of the undead.
well, thats what i think; feel free to reply and share your opinions with me. adios...
...for now.