"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.
Me and the trees, losing our leaves
Falling like blood on the ground
I want to be evergreen
Everything dies, I know last night
Part of me wasn't around
I want to be evergreen
Yeah, evergreen
Waiting, and listening
Hoping and missing all of our time left alone
I'm the one cutting the rope
Frostbite in winter,
'Cause like a splinter
you come and follow me down
I'm the one cutting the rope
Yeah
Holiday end,
I'm here once again,
And I'm left alone on the bus with my
Head on the ground,
In hopes that I'm found by you
This time around
The sun will rise soon and tackle the moon
Chasing it still in the sky
All that I've got is tonight
Excuses and reasons,
And now tis the season
For all that I never got right
All that I've got is tonight
Holiday end,
I'm here once again,
And I'm left alone on the bus with my
Head on the ground,
In hopes that I'm found by you
This time around
The night is a crow saying, "Come hold me"
All that I know is I've been so lonely for you
All that I knew, and all that I know found itself under Your reign
I want to be evergreen
Holiday end,
I'm here once again,
And I'm left alone on the bus with my
Head on the ground,
In hopes that I'm found by you
This time around
I want to be evergreen,
I want to live all year round
I want to live all year round
I want to live all year round
I want to live all year round
Falling like blood on the ground
I want to be evergreen
Everything dies, I know last night
Part of me wasn't around
I want to be evergreen
Yeah, evergreen
Waiting, and listening
Hoping and missing all of our time left alone
I'm the one cutting the rope
Frostbite in winter,
'Cause like a splinter
you come and follow me down
I'm the one cutting the rope
Yeah
Holiday end,
I'm here once again,
And I'm left alone on the bus with my
Head on the ground,
In hopes that I'm found by you
This time around
The sun will rise soon and tackle the moon
Chasing it still in the sky
All that I've got is tonight
Excuses and reasons,
And now tis the season
For all that I never got right
All that I've got is tonight
Holiday end,
I'm here once again,
And I'm left alone on the bus with my
Head on the ground,
In hopes that I'm found by you
This time around
The night is a crow saying, "Come hold me"
All that I know is I've been so lonely for you
All that I knew, and all that I know found itself under Your reign
I want to be evergreen
Holiday end,
I'm here once again,
And I'm left alone on the bus with my
Head on the ground,
In hopes that I'm found by you
This time around
I want to be evergreen,
I want to live all year round
I want to live all year round
I want to live all year round
I want to live all year round
Lyrics submitted by natefrenzy
Evergreen Lyrics as written by Niladri Kumar
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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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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Punchline
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This song is about consistency. The way we live our lives when no one's watching. How we should strive to live our life to the same fullness all the year round just like the trees whose leaves never die. Switchfoot sing a lot about entropy: the law of this world which states that everything falls to a lower state of matter; the second law of thermodynamics. "Everything dies", leaves fall, flowers wither, but our lives should shine through to others all year round and not grow faint.
It also has the idea of coming home from a holiday or returning to normal life from a spiritual high. "Holiday end, I'm here once again and I'm left alone on the bus with my head on the ground"
Great song.
I want to be evergreen.
switchfoot is my fav christian band
This song is about "living the life" all the time. Just as evergreens stay green all year round, we need to be on fire for Christ in everything we do.
please stop with the christian band thing...they're not a christian band. tim the bassist said 'we're christian by faith not by genre'.. they're just christians in a band, like U2.
Born2xl, even if your claim was true, keep in mind that because THEY ARE Christians, their values and beliefs WILL come out through their music.
Where can you hear this song? It's not on itunes or any of their cds...
born2xl, "Music is what I do, Christ is why I do it."- jon foreman
wanderer- it was a bonus song on one version Nothing Is Sound, I think... maybe the ones sold in Best Buy. i don't know where to download it, but you could probably find it on dogpile.com.
Actually the song was on the Happy Christmas compilations Volumes 1 and 4 from tooth and nail.
Just because you're Christian, you don't have to sing only of God. I'm Christian, and die hard one at that. And I conceive everything through a Christian eye, but this song spoke to me not about religion, but about living in general. It was like, "I don't want to have to go to a big event, or a concert to be inspired, to want to change this world. I want to live all year round-I want to live life for real every day."