"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.
Down down you bring me down
I hear you knocking down my
Door and I can't sleep at night
Your face it has no place
No room for you inside my
House I need to be alone
Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
Turn turn I wish you'd learn
There's a time and place for everything
I've got to get it through
Cut loose 'cause you're no use
I couldn't stand another
Second in your company
Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
Stone me why can't you see
You're a no one nowhere washed up baby
Who'd look better dead
Your tongue is far too long
I don't like the way it sucks and
Slurs upon my every word
Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself
To hate you as I'd
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I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself
To hate you as I'd
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I hear you knocking down my
Door and I can't sleep at night
Your face it has no place
No room for you inside my
House I need to be alone
Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
Turn turn I wish you'd learn
There's a time and place for everything
I've got to get it through
Cut loose 'cause you're no use
I couldn't stand another
Second in your company
Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
Stone me why can't you see
You're a no one nowhere washed up baby
Who'd look better dead
Your tongue is far too long
I don't like the way it sucks and
Slurs upon my every word
Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself
To hate you as I'd
Like
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself
To hate you as I'd
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I think this song is a bit of a middle finger at Christianity
I think he's saying he doesn't need a God in his life - "no room for you inside my house"
I guess it's religiously based because:
"I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do" - in reference to Jesus' being on Earth, and then promising what he will do in the future (return on Judgement Day)
"You're a no one nowhere washed up baby who'd look better dead"
"I am the resurrection and I am the life / I couldn't ever bring myself / To hate you as I'd like" - to me it seems he is ridiculing claims of Jesus as arrogant. For someone to say "I am the resurrection and I am the life" seems pretty arrogant to him.
And a slightly more subtle reference is "Turn turn I wish you'd learn". "Turn turn" is a reference to the song "Turn! Turn! Turn!" by The Byrds, the lyrics of which are from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. Quite a famous song, but not many people realise it is from the Bible.
You must be an American - when will you lot stop thinking everything is Jesus related? Bloody idiot. It has nothing to do with religion, it's about a relationship with a girl, the title being an analogy of him becoming single again!<br /> <br /> You have also taken two words from a lyric and come up with a reference to a Byrds supposed reference in a song song as justification for what you are saying! What a clown!
Uhh Ryan, Ian Brown was quoted as saying it was about Anti Christianity.
reddishryan - I'm not American. I'm English. Yorkshireman, to be precise. But thanks for your lovely comment. One little tip - ever considered making a comment without insulting people?