"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.
Unexpecting brother
Doesn't know what to do
When everything just falls to the ground oh
He runs to find some cover
He doesn't have a clue
That his friend will never be found
When he's informed that he
Will never see the boy
Will never see the boy
You'll never see him open his eyes
We'll never see the boy
Never see the boy
You'll only hear his heavenly cries
Oh yeah oh oh oh
Thinking of the past,
It's all over now,
Mother nature's striked once again,
It happened oh so fast,
Now the question's how,
How could they let that building descend
Oh, yeah, oh
You will never see the boy,
You will never see the boy,
You will never see him open his eyes,
You will never see the boy,
Never see the boy,
You'll only hear his heavenly cries
Oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh,
Yeah, no no never, no oh
After your life, I leave, I'm dead,
Leading me off through the night,
If he's born again, I need you to find,
Need you to find, where he is.
Doesn't know what to do
When everything just falls to the ground oh
He runs to find some cover
He doesn't have a clue
That his friend will never be found
When he's informed that he
Will never see the boy
Will never see the boy
You'll never see him open his eyes
We'll never see the boy
Never see the boy
You'll only hear his heavenly cries
Oh yeah oh oh oh
Thinking of the past,
It's all over now,
Mother nature's striked once again,
It happened oh so fast,
Now the question's how,
How could they let that building descend
Oh, yeah, oh
You will never see the boy,
You will never see the boy,
You will never see him open his eyes,
You will never see the boy,
Never see the boy,
You'll only hear his heavenly cries
Oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh,
Yeah, no no never, no oh
After your life, I leave, I'm dead,
Leading me off through the night,
If he's born again, I need you to find,
Need you to find, where he is.
Lyrics submitted by HeroForADay
Faultline Lyrics as written by Ben Gillies Daniel Johns
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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im not too sure but i heard that this song is about a friend of daniels who was killed when they were younger in an earthquajke i beleive :S :'( if thats true, its very sad, it seems quite obvious from the lyrics that the song is about or in someway represents death :(
could b rite Daniel johns is from Newcastle and there was an earthquake in Newcastle in 1989 when Daniel would have been 10
this song makes alot more sense now, thanx molks! even if it is so so sad...
yeah...it's about an earthquake that happened years ago.....
Yeah..In Newcastle, Australia which is about an hours drive from my place where Daniel, Ben and Chris grew up, there was a really really really bad famous earthquake there, and this song's about Daniels friend dying in that earthquake
it isnt about his friend dying, he was watching to news coverage on tv about the quake and wrote the song
sorry haushinkareject
this song is about a friend of Daniel's dying in the Newcastle earthquakes
newcastle, 1989.
Yeah, it's about the earthquake... Daniel was young! It must have been pretty hard on him :(
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@drownnsoda I don't know where this hoax of him composing this song for a friend arouse, but it is simply not true. He made the lyrics after he watched the news, or something. Back then he did note compose anything about him, only about stuff he would watch on the TV. If you look at the list of victims from Newcastle's 1989 earthquake there are no kids. The younger person was 30 years old. So no, there was no childhood friend of Daniel Johns who died on this incident.