"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.
Just sit down right here in front of me
I'll let you see
Connect your face to the fist
I'll show you what you can be
No one to hear all your cries
No one to hear you beg
Listen to me. why can't you see
You are with me
Positioned under me
Let you live
I depend
On your will
Do you see what's running through me
So I'm wrong
I'm not alone
Seems like you're scared
You're holding me back again
Confused I'll hold all your
thoughts from you
You're close to me
You hide from your own fears
Now I'll set them free
No one to hear all your cries
No one to hear you beg
Listen to me, why can't you see
You are with me
Positioned under me
So I'm wrong
I'm not alone
Seems like you're scared
You're holding me back again
So I'm wrong
I'm not alone
Seems like you're scared
You're holding me back again
So I'm wrong
I'm not alone
Seems like you're scared
You're holding me back again
I'll let you see
Connect your face to the fist
I'll show you what you can be
No one to hear all your cries
No one to hear you beg
Listen to me. why can't you see
You are with me
Positioned under me
Let you live
I depend
On your will
Do you see what's running through me
So I'm wrong
I'm not alone
Seems like you're scared
You're holding me back again
Confused I'll hold all your
thoughts from you
You're close to me
You hide from your own fears
Now I'll set them free
No one to hear all your cries
No one to hear you beg
Listen to me, why can't you see
You are with me
Positioned under me
So I'm wrong
I'm not alone
Seems like you're scared
You're holding me back again
So I'm wrong
I'm not alone
Seems like you're scared
You're holding me back again
So I'm wrong
I'm not alone
Seems like you're scared
You're holding me back again
Lyrics submitted by Metal6Hell6Maker6
Redefine Lyrics as written by John M. Connolly Clint Edward Lowery
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Page
Ed Sheeran
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Awesome song! The message in the song is that something is holding back Lajon from what he can accomplish and he wants to just be set free.
incu that is YOUR fantasy, definitely not lajon's. lajon is talented, unlike your trailer-park-trash-still-sucking-on-mommy's-titty ass. you're the fuckin little douche bag and the only person you could get laid by was your father. choke on a bag of shit and die.
Thank you toolapc...fuck that piece of shit incu.
what the...wife beating...woah woah woah... thats the LAST thing lajon would sing about unless he was singing about how it's bad... probably this song is about seeing an old bully and settling the score... at leasth thats what i get from it...i mean come on WIFE BEATING JESUS CHRIST ...! 'o' !...
at no point in this song is there ever even a mention of a woman
... or having sex with groupies.
incu sticking your head up your ass for information won't get you anywhere. seriously fuck off.
Ok, I only listened to this Album a few times and I don't mean to say they suck, but this song is about 'putting a woman in her place'. He states he is beating his woman "Connect your face to the fist I'll show you what you can be " He says she is worthless, his property and cannot do nothing about it. She cant cry out for help cause no one will hear her or care. "No one to hear all your cries No one to hear you beg " is a bold and clear saying that she is indeed helpless. "You are with me Positioned under me " This states she is under him in any way. That her thoughts do not matter and that her freedom is non existent.
umm dude this song is about him raping groupies because he's a little deuche bag and if it wasn't for mindless groupies he knows he couldn't get laid by the farmers pig
just checked again- sorry guys you're wrong- turns out it is about banging groupies (possibily with the hiv) afterall