"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.
Save up, until you've had it
Your purse gone, but you won't go on
Brought down with a force of nature
Breathing off my lung
It's not easy to like it
(It's not easy to like it)
It's not easy at all (It's not easy at all)
It's not easy to like it at all
Fill up to the limit
Winter has come as an appetite
Money clips, equipped with paper
Pockets brimming and tight
It's not easy to like it
(It's not easy to like it)
It's not easy at all (It's not easy at all)
It's not easy to like it at all
It's not easy to like it
(It's not easy to like it)
It's not easy at all (It's not easy at all)
It's not easy to like it at all
(Breathing off of my lung)
(When you breathe off of my lung)
Save up, until you've had it offers come
But you won't go on
Brought down (It's not easy to like it)
With a force of nature
Breathing off of my lung
It's not easy at all it's not easy at all
Your purse gone, but you won't go on
Brought down with a force of nature
Breathing off my lung
It's not easy to like it
(It's not easy to like it)
It's not easy at all (It's not easy at all)
It's not easy to like it at all
Fill up to the limit
Winter has come as an appetite
Money clips, equipped with paper
Pockets brimming and tight
It's not easy to like it
(It's not easy to like it)
It's not easy at all (It's not easy at all)
It's not easy to like it at all
It's not easy to like it
(It's not easy to like it)
It's not easy at all (It's not easy at all)
It's not easy to like it at all
(Breathing off of my lung)
(When you breathe off of my lung)
Save up, until you've had it offers come
But you won't go on
Brought down (It's not easy to like it)
With a force of nature
Breathing off of my lung
It's not easy at all it's not easy at all
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Why haven't I heard a bad DC song? I have 35 of them and each one of them is better than the last. Amen for people that know how to write lyrics.
yea this song is kind of eerie... i think it is the low-quality sound. but yea, i know what you mean.
you know...i found this song kind of...disturbing at first, but i thought it was because i'd read goonie's comment on it before i listened to it. but now...i've heard it again and again and it still sounds eerie. lol i thought that was odd. hm.
i'm not really sure what to think of this song. at first i couldn't even hear the song on my CD, so i had to download it and get the lyrics. i'm confused. but the song is still awesome. -sara-
i agree the song is awsome. yeah it is abit eeire
eerieness is cool
I don't think eerie is the word for it, i htink it is interesting just because it wasn't recorded in a studio. Thats gotta mean something... to Chris i mean,,,
i'm a big fan of this lo-fi song, it's kind of catchy, you know?
yeah it's alright but I have no clue what it's about.
yeah me niether...