"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.
Help me sometimes, I need that much
Don't you think it's strange
How we can turn to dust
Think it's strange, like really strained
We'll never run when we've got all these broken bones
It's so hard to let you go
It's so hard to let you go
I will make you change your mind
I will make you change your mind
I think of me sometimes, I'd never tell
Do you recognize me, think that you know me well
I think you're changing, configurating
Destroyed the lines that fed the goods to your heart
It's so hard to let you go
It's so hard to let you go
Run with the hunted as you come
Run with the wanted I was one
I will make you change your mind
I will make you change your mind
It's so hard to let you go
It's so hard to let you go (run with the hunted as you come)
Run with the hunted as you come
Run with the hunted as you come
I will make you change your mind
I will make you change your mind
Don't you think it's strange
How we can turn to dust
Think it's strange, like really strained
We'll never run when we've got all these broken bones
It's so hard to let you go
It's so hard to let you go
I will make you change your mind
I will make you change your mind
I think of me sometimes, I'd never tell
Do you recognize me, think that you know me well
I think you're changing, configurating
Destroyed the lines that fed the goods to your heart
It's so hard to let you go
It's so hard to let you go
Run with the hunted as you come
Run with the wanted I was one
I will make you change your mind
I will make you change your mind
It's so hard to let you go
It's so hard to let you go (run with the hunted as you come)
Run with the hunted as you come
Run with the hunted as you come
I will make you change your mind
I will make you change your mind
Lyrics submitted by spitfirek7
Mindchanger Lyrics as written by Gavin Rossdale
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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I think this song is about a relationship where both people got hurt, and now the guy wants the girl back. But but she's changed, and doesn't want to be with him. Anyways, that's what I think. But it could be because that just happened to me. :(
i agree, but i htink they broke it off because she thought he was a jerk or he was really shitty to her a lot, hence the line "i was one, but i iwll make you change your mind". Thats just what i think though. . . .
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Great song. The underlying guitar riff during the chorus, the high pitched walk-up...yeah. that sets the mood for the whole song. Its just a kick ass song. And i can realte. Me and this girl had a thing once and it diddnt work out but i couldn't deal with that, i was convinced that i could change her mind and spent the following 3 months trying to do so. Not aggressivly but i thought i could do it. ITs hard to deal with rejection so i totally get Gavin on this one. Totally. Great Song
i listen endless times to the passage :
"think you're changing, configurating destroyed the lines that fed the goods to your heart"
And im 100% sure gavin does NOT sing "goods" it sounds much more like grace - so it means destoryed the lines that fed the grace to your heart.
All lyric sides seem to have copied this because i saw this everywhere wrong
i know it sounds like grace, but according to bush-music.com/lyrics_scienceofthings.html
"help me sometime, i need that much :: don't you think it's strange :: how can we turn dust
think it's strange, like really strained :: we'll never run when :: we've got all these broken bones
it's hard to let you go :: but i will make you change your mind
think of me sometimes, i'd never tell :: do you recognise me, :: think that you know me well :: i think you're changing, configurating :: destroyed the lines :: that fed the goods to your heart
it's hard to let you go :: run with the hunted :: as you come :: run with the hunters :: i was one :: but i will make you change your mind
i will make you change your mind"
The science of things produced a lot of great songs, but this song is truely amazing. This song should have been more popular, but what can you do? It's the last desperate attempt from a man that wants the woman he loves back, though he screwed up big time. Fishopolis is 100% correct about the underlying guitar riff...awesome...