"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.
When you're close to tears remember
Some day it'll all be over
One day we're gonna get so high
Though it's darker than December
What's ahead is a different color
One day we're gonna get so high
And at the end of the day, remember the days
When we were close to the edge
And we'll wonder how we made it through the night
The end of the day, remember the way
We stayed so close 'til the end
We'll remember it was me and you
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
Don't you think it's time you started
Doing what we always wanted?
One day we're gonna get so high
'Cause even the impossible
Is easy when we got each other
One day we're gonna get so high
And at the end of the day, remember the days
When we were close to the edge
And we'll wonder how we made it through the night
The end of the day, remember the way
We stayed so close 'til the end
We'll remember it was me and you
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
High, high, high, high
High, high, high, high
And at the end of the day, remember the days
When we were close to the edge
And we'll wonder how we made it through the night
The end of the day, remember the way
We stayed so close 'til the end
We'll remember it was me and you
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
Some day it'll all be over
One day we're gonna get so high
Though it's darker than December
What's ahead is a different color
One day we're gonna get so high
And at the end of the day, remember the days
When we were close to the edge
And we'll wonder how we made it through the night
The end of the day, remember the way
We stayed so close 'til the end
We'll remember it was me and you
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
Don't you think it's time you started
Doing what we always wanted?
One day we're gonna get so high
'Cause even the impossible
Is easy when we got each other
One day we're gonna get so high
And at the end of the day, remember the days
When we were close to the edge
And we'll wonder how we made it through the night
The end of the day, remember the way
We stayed so close 'til the end
We'll remember it was me and you
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
High, high, high, high
High, high, high, high
And at the end of the day, remember the days
When we were close to the edge
And we'll wonder how we made it through the night
The end of the day, remember the way
We stayed so close 'til the end
We'll remember it was me and you
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
'Cause we are gonna be
Forever you and me
You will always keep me flying high in the sky of love
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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Okay...You wanna know what's bullshit? This song was gonna be our class song but nooooooooo...all cuz it mentions something about getting high, we have to have shitty 'I Will Remember You'...so gay!
When you're close to tears remember Someday it'll all be over
Yea, life is a piece of shit, but one day it'll be over..
This song reminds me of me failing school.
But this song gives me hope.
Im gonna make my parents proud, somehow, someway.
Theyll be proud of me.
Im gonna work hard and study my heart out.
yehyeh, Im the first one here too! haha...i love this song...lemme see, can I relate to this? In a way, once I find 'the one', i'm gonna do everything in my power to keep us 'flying high in the sky'...and i don't mean drugs. =) and if he IS 'the one', then we ARE gonna be forever anyway...=p
i wrote down the lyrics of this song and gave it to my mum just the other day. she is just starting chemotherapy for a case of intestinal cancer that she is fighting. to me this song is about courage, and about hope to conquer whatever troubles stand in your way. it says that no matter how hard things are now, they will get better, and its a strong will and a lot of hope that will get you through...
We had this as our class song when we left, every1 was crying it was so sad! Such a good song
the sondtrack to my mum and dads divorce...
i sat and listened to this, in fact to the whole postcards album for the weeks after the split.
o whole lot more in the past few days, its become something of an anthem. its just awesome.
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It reminds me of my best friend. Wow! It means so much to me, it really does.
I love this song. It was playing on a roadtrip I was on once with a busful of friends, and that week of my life was just amazing, and every time I hear this song it just lifts my spirits.
This song also gives me great memories of a 2 year relationship I was in, the lyrics are so fitting to that.
"At the end of the day, remember the way, we stayed so close til the end We'll remember, it was me and you..."
Amos, go home. Support songs you like, but dont trash songs that mean the world to other people. I think I stand for everyone else who has posted on this song when I say that.