"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.
got a car, got some gas,
lets get out of here, get out of here fast,
oh everyone's confused, so I stay in my room,
if I go...I don't want... to go...alone...
I hope you get this message, or you're not home
I could be there in ten mintues or so,
oh I got my things, we'll make it up as we go along,
oh with you I could never be alone,
never....be....alone
lets get out of here, get out of here fast,
oh everyone's confused, so I stay in my room,
if I go...I don't want... to go...alone...
I hope you get this message, or you're not home
I could be there in ten mintues or so,
oh I got my things, we'll make it up as we go along,
oh with you I could never be alone,
never....be....alone
Lyrics submitted by coldplae, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Untitled Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Allen Ament Eddie Jerome Vedder
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Ah, forgot to mention this is from Washington DC live CD. It may also appear on other live CD's, but this is the only one I know of.
It's on Philly too...the words are a little different, but nonetheless...i love this song.
This song is actually used as an intro to pearl jams song "MFC"...they usually play this song right before they play MFC live, sometimes they dont though. The song is a really slowed down version of MFC, and when they go into MFC they just speed it up, its really rad. This song is on Live On Two Legs, the live PJ recording from 98, check it out.
I love this song. I've got the LOTL version which is different to this one. I take it as kind of an anti-love song. I don't mean a hate song, but a love song that ignores the usual melodramatic stuff and tells it like it is.
I think they'd be the same versions, you just might have some of the lyrics messed up. Here's the lyrics:
Got a car I got some gas Oh, let's get out of here Get out of here fast Oh, everyone's confused So I stay in my room If I go, I don't want to go alone I hope you get this message Oh, you're not home I could be there in 10 minutes or so Oh, I got my things We'll make it up as we go along Oh, with you, I could never be alone Never be alone.
This song is so so pretty. I always skipped it for so long. Then I started listening to it recently. It made me cry when I actually say down and listened to it. I think it's one of the sweetest songs I've ever heard. "Oh with you, I could never be alone"
great song i want to cover it with my band (when i form one lol) a;though theres a million PJ song i want to cover
does anybody have a copy of this song that they could send me? i can't find it anywhere online or on any cd's. :) michelle32110@yahoo.com
I thought this would be referring to the untitled track on Yield, which had no lyrics, buuut since people say it's the same song...
Anyways, I want to contribute by commenting on how people think this is a "filler" track. Well, I would like to say that, when speaking of Pearl Jam, there are NO filler tracks, but rather "experimental transitional" tracks. ^^
How can it simply be called filler if there is actual thought put into the writing of these tracks?
I thought this would be referring to the untitled track on Yield, which had no lyrics, buuut since people say it's the same song...
Anyways, I want to contribute by commenting on how people think this is a "filler" track. Well, I would like to say that, when speaking of Pearl Jam, there are NO filler tracks, but rather "experimental transitional" tracks. ^^
How can they simply be called "filler" if there is actual thought put into the writing of these tracks? On their album Vitalogy there are plenty of numbers that are short, strange and seemingly pointless, but they aren't filler because if they weren't there, the album would sound completely different! Think about it!