"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.
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ,
Nothing is real,
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.
Living is easy with eyes closed,
Misunderstanding all you see ,
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out,
It doesn't matter much to me,
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ,
Nothing is real,
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.
No one, I think, is in my tree,
I mean it must be high or low,
That is you can't, you know, tune in but it's all right,
That is I think it's not too bad
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ,
Nothing is real,
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.
Always, no sometimes, think it's me, but you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a "Yes" but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ,
Nothing is real,
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever .
Strawberry Fields forever.
Cranberry sauce.
Nothing is real,
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.
Living is easy with eyes closed,
Misunderstanding all you see ,
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out,
It doesn't matter much to me,
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ,
Nothing is real,
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.
No one, I think, is in my tree,
I mean it must be high or low,
That is you can't, you know, tune in but it's all right,
That is I think it's not too bad
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ,
Nothing is real,
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.
Always, no sometimes, think it's me, but you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a "Yes" but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ,
Nothing is real,
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever .
Strawberry Fields forever.
Cranberry sauce.
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar, edited by arin3
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All0ygirl, you should chill out and try to think before typing next time. I think Iteration2 is right in his analysis.
I'm not much of a Beatles fan, but I really love this song. I agree, it's about drugs, but it's also about living in your fantasy world and avoiding to see the truth, and how sometimes people do this collectively.
"Living is easy with eyes closed." is the phrase that most stuck with me... it's so easy to put rosy-colored glasses and ignore the world's problems, or even your own personal problems. "misunderstanding all you see", could also further this point. People would rather ignore the world's problems and not care about those suffering... but rather keep living in their personal "strawberry fields". I think the song could also be seen from a romantic point of view... The girl is inviting him to her "dream"... but as the song progresses.. both realize is just a dream... an impossible reality they want to live in.
The song invites you to live a dream. To escape from reality. But all of this in a sarcastic tone, perhaps to criticize those who live in their dreams too much.