"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.
Someday don't wake up I want you to get some rest
Someday if she's hungry I'll bring her to you
Clara once upon a time your mother didn't love your father the best
But he made believe that she did one day it was true
Go back to sleep my daughter
Go back to sleep my wife
I'm waiting for you there
Someday I wake up and she's still a song to play
Someday but you're ready to hear it's for you
Clara once upon a time your father knew he'd scare your mother away
Singing lovers live in a dream that keeps coming true
Go back to sleep my daughter
Go back to sleep my wife
I'm waiting for you there
It's gonna be a long night
It's gonna be a long night
And the sun may never shine
On what I think I've seen in your eyes
On what I think I've seen in your eyes
'Cause your eyes are not a window
Your eyes are not a window
Your eyes are not a window
They're a one way mirror to my soul
Someday don't wake up I want you to get some rest
Someday if she's hungry I'll bring her to you
Clara once upon a time your mother didn't love your father the best
But he made believe that she did one day it was true
Go back to sleep my daughter
Go back to sleep my wife
I'm waiting for you there
Someday I wake up and she's still a song to play
Someday but you're ready to hear it's for you
Clara once upon a time your father knew he'd scare your mother away
Singing lovers live in a dream that keeps coming true
Go back to sleep my daughter
Go back to sleep my wife
I'm waiting for you there
It's gonna be a long night
It's gonna be a long night
And the sun may never shine
On what I think I've seen in your eyes
On what I think I've seen in your eyes
'Cause your eyes are not a window
Your eyes are not a window
Your eyes are not a window
They're a one way mirror to my soul
Someday don't wake up I want you to get some rest
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I always thought this song was Chris talking about his unborn daughter. This song is basically just one big dream and the potential of love and he's just imagining what his future might be like with his unknown wife and child. He's waiting for the day that he meets them both, and he admits it may never happen, but he realizes that until he's found peace and love within/for himself, he won't find his true love and perfect family.
"Go back to sleep my daughter Go back to sleep my wife I'm waiting for you there"
these 3 lines are him letting the dream or wish go, and he is waiting for the world to bring them to him at the right time.
Also the line:
"Clara once upon a time your mother didn't love your father the best but he made believe that she did and one day it was true"
This is him talking about manifestation, or as more may be familiar with it as the law of attraction, which in this line he describes one of the steps to making your dreams come true, which is visualizing, or acting as if. He wants the woman he loves to love him too, and to want a family and one day she does. This is still all a twinkle in his eye though, and in the end just a wistful string of thoughts put into a beautiful song.
I saw him play this song at a show and he said it was about his future daughter or possibly Clara Bow, he was being coy, but that was all he said about it.
Now, to interpret the Clara Bow perspective: <br /> <br /> If you look into the history of Clara Bow and her family you will also find that this song tells the story of how Clara's mother was told not get pregnant again, because both of her previous children died in their infancy, shortly after each of their births. Clara was then born, and she obviously lived, but this song is told from the fathers perspective. He is wishing for her to be born and to be safe and sound as well as the mother, who he dearly loves, but she does not care for him at all. In Clara's memoirs she explains how her father loved her mother, but she did not feel the same about him. <br /> <br /> <br /> It's gonna be a long night<br /> It's gonna be a long night<br /> And the sun may never shine<br /> On what I think I've seen in your eyes<br /> On what I think I've seen in your eyes<br /> 'Cause your eyes are not a window<br /> Your eyes are not a window<br /> Your eyes are not a window<br /> They're a one way mirror to my soul<br /> <br /> This can be interpreted to mean "it's gonna be a long night": He's waiting for their child to be born and know they are both safe and alive. "and the sun may never shine on what I think I've seen in your eyes" : this is the father saying they both might die in child birth and that he may never see the twinkle in his wife's eye,/the "sun may never shine" on their unborn daughter, she will never see the light of day.<br /> <br /> that line could also be saying that their love will never amount to anything more than what he thought it was when they met, because she doesn't love him.