"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.
Secret, hidden underneath it
Trying hard to keep it
Safely out of reach
Creeping, I can feel it breathing
Calling to the surface
Finally in my dreams
Sweet despair feel you devour me
Silently, oh won't you carry me
Home
Taken down I give into what I can't disguise
I surrender, I surrender
Broken down, I give into what I can not have
I surrender, I surrender
Locked in, buried under my skin
Riding on the whispers, restless in the wind
Hunted, I can feel it coming
Keep me under cover in what could of been
Sweet despair feel you devour me
Silently, oh won't you carry me
Home
Taken down I give into what I can't disguise
I surrender, I surrender
Broken down, I give into what I can not have
I surrender, I surrender
Don't make a sound now
Don't make a sound now
Maybe it won't find us after all
Carry, me, home
Taken down I give into what I can't disguise
I surrender, I surrender
Broken down, I give into what I can not have
I surrender, I surrender
Don't make a sound now
Don't make a sound now
I surrender, I surrender
Don't make a sound now
Don't make a sound now
I surrender, I surrender
Broken down I give in, I give in
I surrender, I surrender
Trying hard to keep it
Safely out of reach
Creeping, I can feel it breathing
Calling to the surface
Finally in my dreams
Sweet despair feel you devour me
Silently, oh won't you carry me
Home
Taken down I give into what I can't disguise
I surrender, I surrender
Broken down, I give into what I can not have
I surrender, I surrender
Locked in, buried under my skin
Riding on the whispers, restless in the wind
Hunted, I can feel it coming
Keep me under cover in what could of been
Sweet despair feel you devour me
Silently, oh won't you carry me
Home
Taken down I give into what I can't disguise
I surrender, I surrender
Broken down, I give into what I can not have
I surrender, I surrender
Don't make a sound now
Don't make a sound now
Maybe it won't find us after all
Carry, me, home
Taken down I give into what I can't disguise
I surrender, I surrender
Broken down, I give into what I can not have
I surrender, I surrender
Don't make a sound now
Don't make a sound now
I surrender, I surrender
Don't make a sound now
Don't make a sound now
I surrender, I surrender
Broken down I give in, I give in
I surrender, I surrender
Lyrics submitted by MusicMayhem
Surrender Lyrics as written by Thomas Alexander English Paul Anthony Smith
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sentric Music, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
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I think this song is about a person who committed or was an accomplice to some kind of crime. The weight of the guilt on the person's shoulders is too much. "Creeping, I can feel it breathing, Calling to the surface, Finally in my dreams."
i don't know much about song interpretation but when i feel guilty, i think about what i did constantly, especially because my dreams seem to revolve around it. Also, you know in TV when a character is guilty they feel like everyone knows what they did, like hearing someone whisper that they are to blame. That paranoia is what i think "Locked in, Buried under my skin Riding on the whispers, Restless in the wind" mean.
The person in the song is prevented from going back home or the way things used to be because of their actions, their crime.
"Don't make a sound now I surrender..I surrender.." Here i think the person is in a dilemma. They don't want to keep the secret of what they did but don't want to face the consequences by the authorities.
"Taken down I give into what I can't disguise. I surrender..I surrender Broken down, I give into what I can not have.. I surrender..I surrender"
Finally, i think the person is so overwhelmed by their guilt that they surrender themselves because the punishment wont be as bad as moving on knowing what they got away with.