"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 beat on that drum
Talk in that tongue
You're just scratching
On the surface
So tell me what it means
A whisper to a scream
Slowly fades away
Then you wake up
And tomorrow is today
And you're crying
Crying like a baby
Caught between the tides
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
Do you know where I've been
Walls are caving in
It moves across a wire
There no need to talk
I crawl as you walk
Pushing me away
Then you wake up
And tomorrow is today
And you're crying
Crying like a baby
Caught between the tides
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
Flowers in the bin
Close this hole I'm in
Everything was one
Nothing gets undone
You pay the bill
You lost your will
Just run away until
you wake up
And tomorrow is today
And you're crying
Crying like a baby
Caught between the tides
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
Talk in that tongue
You're just scratching
On the surface
So tell me what it means
A whisper to a scream
Slowly fades away
Then you wake up
And tomorrow is today
And you're crying
Crying like a baby
Caught between the tides
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
Do you know where I've been
Walls are caving in
It moves across a wire
There no need to talk
I crawl as you walk
Pushing me away
Then you wake up
And tomorrow is today
And you're crying
Crying like a baby
Caught between the tides
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
Flowers in the bin
Close this hole I'm in
Everything was one
Nothing gets undone
You pay the bill
You lost your will
Just run away until
you wake up
And tomorrow is today
And you're crying
Crying like a baby
Caught between the tides
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
(Did you lose your way)
You lost your way
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at first, i didnt like this song because the beginning didnt appeal to me. but when i heard "flowers in the bin close this whole i'm in..." my whole view of it improved.
tell me about it!
"Flowers in the bin Close this hole I’m in Everything was one Nothing gets undone"
that whole part of the song just takes u into another world. what it all means exactly i'm not so sure, but the feeling i get from it says that it's purly perfect
This is my interpretation of that section. Hope it helps :)
Flowers in the bin - something good (flowers) has gone or changed into something not wanted (rubbish in a bin) Close this hole I’m in - wanting to end this constant search to find happiness Everything was one - everything was once all together, life was perfect and now it's not Nothing gets undone - even though everything's broken up, she is still perfect inside
I think that's what it means, would love other suggestions.