"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
Here
Everything is by design
Everything is by design
Here
Here
Everything is kept inside
So take a chance and step outside
Your hopes, your dreams, your paradise
Heroes, idols cracked like ice
Here
Here
Everything is kept inside
So take a chance and step outside
Pure frustration face to face
A point of view creates more waves
So take a chance and step outside
Take a chance and step outside
Lose some sleep and say you tried
Meet frustration face to face
A point of view creates more waves
So lose some sleep and say you tried
So lose some sleep and say you tried
So lose some sleep and say you tried
So lose some sleep and say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried
Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried
Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried
Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried
Here
Everything is by design
Everything is by design
Here
Here
Everything is kept inside
So take a chance and step outside
Your hopes, your dreams, your paradise
Heroes, idols cracked like ice
Here
Here
Everything is kept inside
So take a chance and step outside
Pure frustration face to face
A point of view creates more waves
So take a chance and step outside
Take a chance and step outside
Lose some sleep and say you tried
Meet frustration face to face
A point of view creates more waves
So lose some sleep and say you tried
So lose some sleep and say you tried
So lose some sleep and say you tried
So lose some sleep and say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Say you tried
Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried
Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried
Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried
Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried
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I like the odd sounds in the beginning of this song. (I think he's lighting a match or something..) Ahh, Ians' voice gives me an eargasm. Almost every time I hear it. Joy Division is like a drug for me... the more I listen to it.. trrr... the 'hungrier' I get. For me the meaning of this song.. uumm.. I think it's about which choices you make in life.. like when you have a dream.. you should make everything you possibly can to make it happen.. you should live it out.. as close as you can get.. otherwise you'll always think of the things 'that might have been' and you'll never find peace.. it will haunt you.. otherwise you're just throwing your life away... and even if you don't succeed, then in the end, you can still say that atleast I tried..
but that's just my point of view
you need to make an effort to get out of your own little world, the ego.
Do these people that comment actually even listen to the song?
The song is called Autosuggestion. Plainly enough, a reference to Auto-suggestive therapy. From this the structure of the song and the relevant verses should make it clear enough:
Here, here Everything is by design
So take a chance and step outside Lose some sleep and say you tried Meet frustration face to face
As for the song it's absolutely masterful, especially the Substance recording. The music - is this dark dismal sound that fills the background for its entire duration, and than you can hear the distinct voice of Ian, akin to the faint glow of candle lighting a dark room on a cold winter night.
So lose some sleep and say you tried So lose some sleep and say you tried
That was actually the attempted remedy to which I was alluding. If you think about it, for someone with severe enough depression, trying to reaffirm or modify one's life through positive or constructive repeated ideas could potentially only trigger a backlash of far more negative thoughts.<br /> <br /> Which, I posited, was the essence of the song: Trying, then failing, to modify one's own behaviour. The end is ambiguous, however...<br /> <br /> The music is indeed sublime. The way the production balances each of the elements transforms the piece into something wonderfully deep and alien. In fact, it was this - in conjunction with a very weird in-joke about creating "therapy tapes for increasing insanity" - that I named my own band Autosuggestion. Aspirations, indeed.
Being depressed, weary, and having a growing sense of frustration with everyone and everything, no faith in anything. In trying to remedy that, it only gets worse.
Don't be so optimistic. Seems like he's saying there's no point in "taking a chance and stepping outside" as you will only "meet frustration face to face". Joy Division rules.
To me this song seems to be about despair. "lose some sleep and say you tried" meaning a half-assed effort for trying to change, (yourself, the world, society, etc..) and demonstrating how "losing sleep" and worrying about something gives us just enough of a good conscience so that we can relieve ourselves of guilt without really doing anything to change it. We consider ourselves to be "good people" because we worried about something, which means that we care, which is more than most people do, so we are better than the rest of society, so now we can sleep easy knowing that we are better/good.