"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.
Here’s a song to all my friends I know they’d like I remember every drunken night at the old dive Driving the ol’wreck Trying to make it home somehow One more pit stop at our favorite watering hole The ghost of Christmas past swallowed all our pride We’d open up our story books and water down the eyes our demons raised their glasses singing "I propose a toast to my friends" Who’s buying the next round Cup half empty Cup half full Perspectives and beers They weren’t failure Just the regulars of my favorite year They come and go paying their toll From mobiles homes Decaying old unsound minds The ghost of Cristmas failure dancing to the click of time The beating of defeat Shaking in his hands a lifetime of retreat And his regrets were ours A time to say good-bye I’ve been waiting so long for you to call my old friend To all my friends...
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Haha this is such a classy song. I think its about old times with old friends...getting wasted...having fun? I cant believe no one's commented on this song yet.
i totally agree bro this song is definately worth some coments just a lot of people are posers and here some of these other underground bands and comment on there shit i am totally agreeing with you bro!
re: MikeD
agree too, i wanna comment on all their songs but i have no time and there's so much lol... also, half of their songs have 0 posts or just a few
i also noticed May 16 got a lot of posts... i already posted on the song but it's because of tony hawk 2, im not against that company or anything, but the people who think oh, it's in a popular game i have to like this song so i can be cool and sh-t...
it's like what happened to Green Day, they sign a major record label, and people who have no idea what punk is, relate punk to Green Day, same case with blink 182, anyway, im not gonna go on a tangent (sp?)
um, does any1 else notice the beat is kinda like, that song, here comes santa claus? lol, l8r
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Yeah this song is about reflecting on old times that were awsome, and the end is about a relationship with a girl he had in those days
Awsome song, hey everyone knows i guess but secret song at end of that track