"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.
Every kind of love
Or at least my kind of love
Must be an imaginary love to start with
Guess that can explain the rain,
Waiting walking game
Schubert busts my brain to start with
Hoped to look at you in a cab
Back of your head across my lap
Oh what grace
Green back seat against the
Red of your face
Hoped to look at you in any old grand hotel
Drunken demands gave way to reservations
Oh, what a room
Champagne brings such happy faces, happy faces
Cause every kind of love
Or at least my kind of love
Must be an imaginary love to start with
Guess that can explain the rain
Waiting walking game
Schubert broke my brain to start with
Or at least my kind of love
Must be an imaginary love to start with
Guess that can explain the rain,
Waiting walking game
Schubert busts my brain to start with
Hoped to look at you in a cab
Back of your head across my lap
Oh what grace
Green back seat against the
Red of your face
Hoped to look at you in any old grand hotel
Drunken demands gave way to reservations
Oh, what a room
Champagne brings such happy faces, happy faces
Cause every kind of love
Or at least my kind of love
Must be an imaginary love to start with
Guess that can explain the rain
Waiting walking game
Schubert broke my brain to start with
Lyrics submitted by brick, edited by azbibliote
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This song is about how you sit and think about how you imagine love will be. The little details you think about, how the situation will be. Then it doesn't ever happen exactly as its planned. Love starts as as a fantasy and ends in a reality.
i love this song a lot, i only discovered rufus a while ago. the lyrics, well i feel them at the moment.
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love starts as a fantasy and ends in a reality... i like that. ::claps::
When it comes to love/relationship issues, Rufus is a master. He sings of love as it really is and not tries to make love seem perfect because it never will be but we just have to keep on trying and continue loving...
I think it's "Schubert busts my brain to start with," not "broke." I don't know for sure, but it sure sounds like it. Anyway, I think it's beautiful.
I think it's "Schubert busts my brain to start with," not "broke." I don't know for sure, but it sure sounds like it. Anyway, I think it's beautiful.
This is one of my top 4 favorite Rufus songs! The lyrics seem to change in tone and just...in words of Lennon...imagine.
I like the way the song starts quiet but builds up. Rufus is a very talented singer/songwriter.
this is my theme song. my introverted shyness transforms me into this master idealistic ... daydreamer.
i really relate to this song, that's my point.