"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.
Hold on, to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home
Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home
Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home
Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home
Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home
Lyrics submitted by NooContact
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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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Mountain Song
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I think that God is talking to His followers in this song, reminding them of their future. The lyrics don't say this is your ,home, for NOW. They say I'm going to make this place your home. Read Randy Alcorn's book, "Heaven." He has spent nearly 30 years studying the scriptures to understand Heaven. I always thought the Jehovah Witnesses were crazy when they said that they are going to live on a perfect earth after they die. God is going to make all things NEW, "neos," (make new, not destroy but sorta like remodel.) Rev. 21:1 "Then I saw a new heaven and a ,new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared." 2 Peter 3:13 "But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness." Once you become a believer Satan's demons really bug you. They fill you with self-doubt, fear, and discouragement. That's why we should read ,God's Word, He builds us up and shows us that His greatest followers weren't perfect either.
Nice scripture recitation...wish I could do that so quickly (seriously). I do, though, believe home can be different things to different people. It could be the childhood home (returning it to it after a long absence), a spouse, an ex boyfriend, confidence, a healthier mind or body, religion, etc.
Anything we should know about your change?
It's pretty self explanatory - It's a song about change. Nobody likes it, but it's gonna be okay in the end.
I think it has to do with religion. Settle down, it will all be clear. Pay no attention to demons they fill you with fear. Just know you're not alone, cause I'm going to make this place (Earth for now) your home. Trouble and sin might drag you down, if you get lost, you can always be found (in religion). Even if you believe in the Big Bang Theory (which is a huge topic right now) you have to realize; and, even doing research with scientists, nothing comes from nothing. The very first atom had to be created by something. Singularity. Nothing comes from nothing--something has to get the ball rolling. Settle down, it will all be clear. However, we will never understand why or how "life" "it" works. We aren't suppose to and we won't because we have too much emotion behind it. Just know you're not alone, for now this place is our home.
I feel it's a about a relationship.. where one person is saying to the other that they will be strong and there for them.. To not worry that they will make things ok no matter how bad things seem.. that rock to stand by.. someone on to count on.. When someone is feeling lost. they will be there for them and make them feel safe.. Read it.. it's clear.. it's all there..
I love this song. The lyrics are self-explanatory...and gorgeous. They have absolutely no personal meaning for me (I want to make that clear), but the lyrics are beautiful regardless. Love Phil's voice... liked him the first time I heard him sing on American Idol and knew from that moment that he would win.