"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.
The last selection in the ballgame
Does never get a pass
"Not appreciated's" just his first name
He's the scapegoat of the class
There are no friends to cheer him up, and
No girls, no sweet romance
It's impossible to expand
When you never get a second chance
Do you know, who's that guy, who's all alone?
Do you care enough to see? He's in pain and misery
He's not going to the school-pram
He said he had the flu
Trumped-up excuses as he told mom
- "I'm safer here with you"
She told her son - "Someday they'll all be
Sorry for mistreating you
Don't be affraid my son and trust me
You'll be someone they will look up to"
Do you know, who's that guy, who's all alone?
Do you care enough to see? He's in pain and misery...
Do you care to see?
Do you know, who's that guy, who's all alone?
Do you care enough to see? He's in pain and misery
Does never get a pass
"Not appreciated's" just his first name
He's the scapegoat of the class
There are no friends to cheer him up, and
No girls, no sweet romance
It's impossible to expand
When you never get a second chance
Do you know, who's that guy, who's all alone?
Do you care enough to see? He's in pain and misery
He's not going to the school-pram
He said he had the flu
Trumped-up excuses as he told mom
- "I'm safer here with you"
She told her son - "Someday they'll all be
Sorry for mistreating you
Don't be affraid my son and trust me
You'll be someone they will look up to"
Do you know, who's that guy, who's all alone?
Do you care enough to see? He's in pain and misery...
Do you care to see?
Do you know, who's that guy, who's all alone?
Do you care enough to see? He's in pain and misery
Lyrics submitted by SeanConnery
The Ballad Lyrics as written by Fredrik Larzon Erik Ohlsson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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This song is an awesome song, its so true, people are put down constantly by people who think too highly of themselves and dont care whether or not they are verbally scarring anyone....We wonder why so many people take their own lives, and it can be as simple as constantly hacking on someone to make them feel worthless...this is a rad song with much meaning.
Well put.
i love this song, its sickening.
this song is really soulfull. a few more of these please, millencolin!
well said :D
i think we can all relate to this song in one way or another...
i think we can all relate to this song in one way or another...
This is yet another example of what being a dick to people can really do to them...it's sad This song makes me cry sometimes...and reminds me to accept others for what they have to offer, not what they lack!
i have to agree ... we can all relate to this song in SOME way ive never really been much of a dickhead to ppl it makes me think twice b4 putting someone down ... i try not too ... BTW ... just a tip: we really shoud think about the things we say ... one of the girls @ my school cominted a suicide this week (15yrs old) ... i didnt know her but my friends say i would've seen her around ... still trying to get a photo of her to find out who she was ... anyway my point is ... most ppl kill themselves for the same reasons mantiond in this song ... basicly we kill those ppl ... something we shouldnt be very proud of
good message and good song from millencolin! jacob_c7
well said SpLaT and jacob_c7
yea i agree with all of u