"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 rain is on the roof
Hurry high butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skys all cry
Om, om, heaven, om
The earth turns slowly round
Far away the distant sound
Is with us everyday
Can you hear what it say
Om, om, heaven, om
The rain is on the roof
Hurry high butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skys all cry
Om, om, heaven, om
Hurry high butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skys all cry
Om, om, heaven, om
The earth turns slowly round
Far away the distant sound
Is with us everyday
Can you hear what it say
Om, om, heaven, om
The rain is on the roof
Hurry high butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skys all cry
Om, om, heaven, om
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another beautiful compostion by them. This one, by Mike Pindar, geniusly employs a sitar and describes what makes this world go round. (I know why the skies all cry (rain) magnificant! only he calls God OM. an eastern pagan made up God. and actually a make up one of many Gods in that particular faith. Though Mike has the wrong God, He gets the message across well. Listening to this song, makes you want to reach out to God so much. Just don't try Om because he can't here a word you say. But anyway, this song is so well written, and so mesmerizing, just like so many of the Moody's #s.
You are incorrect and proselytizing again. Om is a symbol in both Buddhism and Hinduism that represents balance and enlightenment.
The wrong god? Wow. <br /> <br /> It's amazing how someone can speak with such self-assured smugness and be completely ignorant? <br /> <br /> It's all the same godhead man. Om isn't the name of the god, but the state of being.