"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 get up when I'm down
I can't swim but my soul won't drown
I do believe I got flare
I got speed and I walk on air
'Cause God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll, babe
'Cause God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll, babe
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
In and out my brain
You're runnin' through my vein
You're my sunshine
You're my rain
There's a light that shines on
Shines on me and it keeps me warm
It gimme peace, I must say
I can't sleep 'cause the world won't wait
'Cause God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll, babe
'Cause God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll, babe
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
In and out my brain
You're runnin' through my vein
You're my sunshine
You're my rain
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
In and out my brain
You're runnin' through my vein
You're my sunshine
You're my rain
I can't swim but my soul won't drown
I do believe I got flare
I got speed and I walk on air
'Cause God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll, babe
'Cause God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll, babe
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
In and out my brain
You're runnin' through my vein
You're my sunshine
You're my rain
There's a light that shines on
Shines on me and it keeps me warm
It gimme peace, I must say
I can't sleep 'cause the world won't wait
'Cause God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll, babe
'Cause God gimme soul in your rock'n'roll, babe
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
In and out my brain
You're runnin' through my vein
You're my sunshine
You're my rain
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
And I get so high I just can't feel it
In and out my brain
You're runnin' through my vein
You're my sunshine
You're my rain
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I think the songs about 'getting high' on rock'n'roll!! When u let it pass thru ur veins u get high.. True rock fans will know what i mean.. Dont u get high when u hear great rock music? Like smells like teen spirit or some might say? its a tribute by Noel to Rock n roll!!! How its his 'sunshine and rain' and how it goes thru his veins..
If thats true then every single line makes sense!! (so it might well be true)
Just about all of these lyrics are wrong!!!
i know, ive just realised, ill post the real ones
here we are, sorry 4 the wrong ones, hehe im the king of the castle and your the dirty rascle
Rumor has it that the new album is absoultly tops
The new album is kind of boring, maybe it will come around , after listening to it a couple of times.. the first times it didn´t.
A good oasis song but not great. They have better.
i believe it is to be much better than sotsog..
well sotsog, was well good so if its betta than it then its gonna be good
it's not their best song but i like it, i like it...