"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.
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave then breathe your story lines
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Keep track of the visions in my eyes
While, she's deceiving me
It cuts my security
Has she got control of me?
I turn to her and say
Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades, oh no
Don't masquerade with the guy in shades, oh no
I can't believe it
'Cause you've got it made with the guy in shades, oh no
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Forget my name while you collect your claim
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
See the light that's right before my eyes
While she's deceiving me
She cuts my security
Has she got control of me?
I turn to her and say
Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades, oh no
Don't masquerade with the guy in shades, oh no
I can't believe it
Don't be afraid of the guy in shades, oh no
It can't escape you
'Cause you got it made with the guy in shades, oh no
Oh no
I say
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I say it to you now
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I cry to you
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave then breathe your story lines
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Keep track of the visions in my eyes
While, she's deceiving me
It cuts my security
Has she got control of me?
I turn to her and say
Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades, oh no
Don't masquerade with the guy in shades, oh no
I can't believe it
'Cause you've got it made with the guy in shades, oh no
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Forget my name while you collect your claim
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
See the light that's right before my eyes
While she's deceiving me
She cuts my security
Has she got control of me?
I turn to her and say
Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades, oh no
Don't masquerade with the guy in shades, oh no
I can't believe it
Don't be afraid of the guy in shades, oh no
It can't escape you
'Cause you got it made with the guy in shades, oh no
Oh no
I say
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I say it to you now
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I cry to you
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses
Lyrics submitted by Boonechic_21, edited by Moustacher, Taylacain
Sunglasses at Night Lyrics as written by Corey Hart
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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It's time to play. It's time to play "Do You Hear Like the Pop Star Sings?"
I have played this game since I was a kid. I would write down what I thought I was hearing the Rolling Stones sing on the Ed Sullivan Show. Of course, being a kid, I could not understand every word of their lyrics, even when I heard what the lousy singers ACTUALLY sang. So I made up my own lyrics, based on what I thought I heard, and within my vocabulary. And then, I would sing the song on the playground at full volume - using MY lyrics. I noticed the other kids looking at me. I am convinced now that they were jealous.
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Other pop stars (like Led Zeppelin) were similarly difficult to understand. To be honest, their diction sucked.
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It gets tiring, translating singers' mumbling and speech so slurred, it sounds almost like a foreign (uh, non-English, that is) language. All I want to do is HEAR THE WORDS - KNOW the words - and sing them.
And now, onward to play...
A popular song in the 1980s was "Sunglasses At Night," by Corey Hart. (I know, it's weird. I mean, WHY wear sunglasses AT NIGHT?)
According to how I hear him, Corey Hart seems determined to teach us one excuse for wearing sunglasses at night.
Based on my interpretation and hearing of the lyrics, following is the "story" Cory Hart is singing. I mean, I'll call it singing; he's carrying a tune, most of the time - but he sure does make it unnecessarily difficult to know and understand his lyrics. Of course, this will differ greatly from other comments on this song...
And yeah, I know: the story as I tell it reads like a bad LSD trip. Maybe I'm on to something there. Only Corey knows. (Now, wait: I guarantee, I am NOT "on something," like LSD. Never used the stuff. Have met people who have used it. It's not for me.)
The story:
It's about some guy ("Guy #1," singing in first person, when he's not singing to one of the other characters in the story). He sings mostly about some weird woman. He also occasionally seems to be singing to a third person, "Guy #2." He has some kind of fetish for birds. I guess the birds are swarming around him and blinding him. Guy #1 is trying to feed the birds. Suddenly, the mysterious Guy #2 shows up. Guy #2 has a girlfriend who is mean to Guy #1 in especially odd ways. Apparently, that girlfriend is that same weird woman mentioned earlier. She seems to be endangering herself outdoors - hanging around what sounds like some specially designed buildings. (Maybe they're just bird-feeders.) The weird woman seems to have a fetish about the buildings, eventually using some special-sounding part of the buildings or accessory to the buildings - to feed the birds, I think. There is obviously almost nothing Guy #1 can do to stop the weird woman. He DEFINITELY does not like what she writes! Guy #1 seems terribly alarmed about how the weird, mean woman is endangering herself, with bird food and that special building-part (shelf?). Somehow, the song-picture is not complete without: (1) removal of skates (TOTAL mystery to me how they matter!); (2) an exclamation that many Army troops bellow ("HOO-ah!"), and (3) repeated confession by Guy #1 about wearing sunglasses at night. It isn't obvious, but it seems upon analysis that the birds poop a lot while swarming around Guy #1. So to protect his eyes from bird poop, Guy #1 wears sunglasses all the time - including at night - just in case the swarming, pooping birds descend upon him. (I bet Hart got his inspiration for the song from Alfred Hitchcock.)
And now, as if all that above isn't weird enough, here are the lyrics as I hear them, and with punctuation that seems appropriate. Go to the YouTube video that has lyrics, play the video, ignore the lyrics on your screen, and sing the words below. THEY TELL THE STORY ABOVE.
The link (see farther below my lyrics) is to a YouTube video with the alleged actual lyrics. But no: they are NOT the lyrics that I hear. What do YOU hear?:
Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart (sing along, now!)
I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can sew a candle, What you weave and breathe although you lie; I wear my sunglasses at night so I can sew a camp, Keep track of the pigeons in my eyes...
Why, she's in seed in me! 'N cuts my succor and tea! Has she got control of me? I turd to her 'n say:
Don't push the bread on the guide-in sheds alone! Don't mess around with the guide-in sheds alone! I can't believe it! You got a maid with the guide-in sheds alone!
{ANOTHER VERSE} I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can sew a candle, Go get my name why you co-lack your cream; I wear my sunglasses at night so I can sew a camp, See the light that's bright before my eyes...
Well..she's got seed in me She cuts my succor and tea She's got control of me I turd to her essay...
Don't push the bread on the guide-in sheds alone! Don't mess around with the guide-in sheds alone! I can't believe it! You got a maid with the guide-in sheds alone!
She's got seed on me 'N cuts my succor and tea Has she got control of me? I turd to her essay...
Don't push the bread on the guide-in sheds alone! Don't mess around with the guide-in sheds alone! I can't believe it! Don't be a friend of the guide-in sheds alone! It can un-skate you 'Cause you got a maid with a guide-in shelf, oh HOO-ah!
ohhhhh...yeahhhh...I say: I wear my sunglasses at night (over and over) Hot say to you now: I wear my sunglasses at night (over and over) I cry to you: I wear my sunglasses at night (over and over)
This is a game that you CANNOT lose. Congratulations, Winner! You, too, like me, can "Hear Like the Pop Star Sings!"
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