"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.
There you were on the floor cut up
And all alone I held you
Conceived in a chrome dream I was a crease
In the shirt that this world wears
'Til I met Blue, I was in obscurity he said
Loosen up who do you wanna be?
We could steal a car and listen to the stars
I can see you've choked on them too
Had enough of late night films
Just settle for an hour or two
Oh Blue, show me something new
Oh Blue, show me something new
Blue, I've got a question every time I hold you
Yeah, Blue, I've got a question every time I swallow you it's true
Spike danced for ten days long
We were just heading for the sun
You shot him down there's blood on my face
His heart's in the right place
What they gonna do to you
What they gonna do
Blue don't forget the word, I warned you
Oh, Blue don't let them push you don't let them destroy you
Meanwhile I'm searching with my brain blown eyes
See the world through my dirty lonely mixed up mind
And all alone I held you
Conceived in a chrome dream I was a crease
In the shirt that this world wears
'Til I met Blue, I was in obscurity he said
Loosen up who do you wanna be?
We could steal a car and listen to the stars
I can see you've choked on them too
Had enough of late night films
Just settle for an hour or two
Oh Blue, show me something new
Oh Blue, show me something new
Blue, I've got a question every time I hold you
Yeah, Blue, I've got a question every time I swallow you it's true
Spike danced for ten days long
We were just heading for the sun
You shot him down there's blood on my face
His heart's in the right place
What they gonna do to you
What they gonna do
Blue don't forget the word, I warned you
Oh, Blue don't let them push you don't let them destroy you
Meanwhile I'm searching with my brain blown eyes
See the world through my dirty lonely mixed up mind
Lyrics submitted by enola
Blue Lyrics as written by Robin Boult John Howard Jones
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You can also go with the drug reference and how Blue can make us all do things out of character.
I reckon it's about drugs: Blue, I've got a question everytime I swallow you
I'm hard placed to say person or drugs. I see it as a kind of state of mind: a life-defining era that's wild, free, young, with amazing friends and a load of drugs.
PS I get: "We could steal a car and listen to the stars I can see YOU CHOKE on them too Had enough of late night films Just CHILL for an hour or two"
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Love the layered backwards guitar on this. Mind Blowing.
this song reminds me of my first dog, an english bulldog named shadow, died of old age.
"Blue, I've got a question every time I hold you Yeah, Blue, I've got a question every time I swallow you it's true
Spike danced for 10 days long We were just heading for the sun"
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@mysterioso Blue microdots.