"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.
All around you is to feel and watch you
They make patterns to peel the sound
And I find it a pain that goes along
With being in chaos's order
I've a field now to realize in
Watch the main jump
It has fears of
You being there rising up
Like who you're introduced to saying goodbye
All again and you're always free by now
I didn't fake this so you could fade away
I've been careful to take what I've spent
I remember every end
I'm pretending to face something
I've been looking straight in it's eye
Moments have you to play around with
Cuz inside actions there's no time
I'll evade you to create a reason
I hear you inside a space
An instant is forever now
A future fluctuates
Glimpse your motion
Sitting down, it's like
Framing a pear
Or saving sounds
I defy you to realize it
How a shattering creates a song
I've been used to help the body
Of work that will never be
A lapse of the most confused kind
Has reserved feelings jumping around
This first type plays around the souls
They have fun with everyone you know
A knot only found
Never made
Everyday we reload feelings
When we play
- solo -
They make patterns to peel the sound
And I find it a pain that goes along
With being in chaos's order
I've a field now to realize in
Watch the main jump
It has fears of
You being there rising up
Like who you're introduced to saying goodbye
All again and you're always free by now
I didn't fake this so you could fade away
I've been careful to take what I've spent
I remember every end
I'm pretending to face something
I've been looking straight in it's eye
Moments have you to play around with
Cuz inside actions there's no time
I'll evade you to create a reason
I hear you inside a space
An instant is forever now
A future fluctuates
Glimpse your motion
Sitting down, it's like
Framing a pear
Or saving sounds
I defy you to realize it
How a shattering creates a song
I've been used to help the body
Of work that will never be
A lapse of the most confused kind
Has reserved feelings jumping around
This first type plays around the souls
They have fun with everyone you know
A knot only found
Never made
Everyday we reload feelings
When we play
- solo -
Lyrics submitted by UseYourIllusion
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Great version of a great song,
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I think this song, and the entire album is about just completely letting go of everything. Letting go of absolutely everything, including your dreams and disappointments, and letting the universe put you where it wants you. Starting over and not worrying about a single thing.
i just realized that compared to rhcp thers noone here. i always thought that there were alot more fans than this.
i love JF no there's not that many JF fans which really sucks because not to be mean or anything but JF would do a better job without the RHCP.dontpanic42 you're right about the whole TROWFTD album. people i'm a big RHCP and a bigger JF fan but my statement about JF and him doing a better job without RHCP still stays
I really love this song, good beat and good lyrics..
I think its about inspiration for some reason. John is amazing. - UYI
Great tune - Great guitarist/songwriter
Cant work out any meanings to any of his songs though
HTH!
i agree with dontpanic42 this album makes you remember te beauty of everything and it makes me feel as if i can do anything i want in this world.
holy crap-- i adore this song; good beat, good lyrics, good everything. well, more than just 'good' actually. but yeah i think that song as well as the whole album, is about just letting go, like dontpanic42 said.
glad to hear that statment. i think john does better because he can free himself and do whatever and besides he has better spirits than any chili or all chilis (except john) put together. john does a lot for his fans too and looks after them as much as possibe. i cant believe that hes brining out smiles from the streets you hold again. i actually find thhat weird cuz i was thinking about why did he take it away in the first place. john rocks
such a cool sounding & "somehow happy in its own way" kinda song.