"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.
Mornin' feels like a drag when you're all messed up
Ain't got nobody to pick you up
And your phone gonna ring like it used to do
All those you thought, your friends
Well, they turned on you, oh
Like a stone, you flown your life
To turns of fancy and of flight
It's a lie, it's a lie
So you believe what they say
With all their gilded praise
You string up your accolades
They string up your veins
They like to push you up
But they won't let you go
They keep a tight, keep a tight
Keep a tight hold on you
Just to let you know
That they'll always be your lover
And they will never know the crime
It's a lie
Break me down to blood and grit
It's a lie
A monkey blood and junkie spit
It's a lie
Elevate my pedestal
It's a lie
Touch me, baby
Does anybody want me?
Feel me, baby
I still got that same old feeling
Burning inside
Hear me now
Does anybody hear me?
Remember me, yeah
Remember me
Remember me, yeah
And you think back to the time
When you never ever could get too high
It's a lie
Break me down to blood and grit
It's a lie
A monkey blood and junkie spit
It's a lie
Elevate my pedestal
It's a lie
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
The same thing that makes you laugh
Can make you cry
The same thing you eat to live
Can make you die
Same thing you thought you
Ain't got nobody to pick you up
And your phone gonna ring like it used to do
All those you thought, your friends
Well, they turned on you, oh
Like a stone, you flown your life
To turns of fancy and of flight
It's a lie, it's a lie
So you believe what they say
With all their gilded praise
You string up your accolades
They string up your veins
They like to push you up
But they won't let you go
They keep a tight, keep a tight
Keep a tight hold on you
Just to let you know
That they'll always be your lover
And they will never know the crime
It's a lie
Break me down to blood and grit
It's a lie
A monkey blood and junkie spit
It's a lie
Elevate my pedestal
It's a lie
Touch me, baby
Does anybody want me?
Feel me, baby
I still got that same old feeling
Burning inside
Hear me now
Does anybody hear me?
Remember me, yeah
Remember me
Remember me, yeah
And you think back to the time
When you never ever could get too high
It's a lie
Break me down to blood and grit
It's a lie
A monkey blood and junkie spit
It's a lie
Elevate my pedestal
It's a lie
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
I want to take you higher
Bring me down
The same thing that makes you laugh
Can make you cry
The same thing you eat to live
Can make you die
Same thing you thought you
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Lie Lyrics as written by Kevin F. Moore Kevin James Labrie
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"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:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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