"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.
No, no, hesitation
No, no, things that I've
Done wrong you want to know
But do you want to know?
There's one, one, wrong desire
One more more bullet in my head
I'm breaking, I'm breaking
It takes one small
Compliment
That could save this boy
And the life we spent
But we're writing in his
Eulogy
We didn't know
How can we know?
No, no, conversation
No, no, cigarette to start it up again
To start it up again
There's no more
Room for heroes
No, no, we're already dead
I'm breaking, I'm breaking
It takes one small
Compliment
That could save this boy
And the life we spent
But we're writing in his
Eulogy
We didn't know
How can we know?
Well, I believe that I will be remembered
And I believe that I will be forgotten by a few
But even if this life is never-ending
We'd get the forks and get the cake
And come on boys let's celebrate
It takes one small
Compliment
That could save this boy
And the life we spent
But we're writing in
His eulogy
We didn't know
How can we know?
No, no, things that I've
Done wrong you want to know
But do you want to know?
There's one, one, wrong desire
One more more bullet in my head
I'm breaking, I'm breaking
It takes one small
Compliment
That could save this boy
And the life we spent
But we're writing in his
Eulogy
We didn't know
How can we know?
No, no, conversation
No, no, cigarette to start it up again
To start it up again
There's no more
Room for heroes
No, no, we're already dead
I'm breaking, I'm breaking
It takes one small
Compliment
That could save this boy
And the life we spent
But we're writing in his
Eulogy
We didn't know
How can we know?
Well, I believe that I will be remembered
And I believe that I will be forgotten by a few
But even if this life is never-ending
We'd get the forks and get the cake
And come on boys let's celebrate
It takes one small
Compliment
That could save this boy
And the life we spent
But we're writing in
His eulogy
We didn't know
How can we know?
Lyrics submitted by SleepySmile, edited by SeraphimFalls
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well usually i dont talk about songs unless i say its good or not, but this time..... i actually have something to say about this one.... its about some1 on the edge of suicide and they want to be saved but if he's not then he's ok with it... bc he will always be rememberd for the way he died........maybe im way off.......good song though!
actually the song is about a kid who Did commit sucide on Long Island 2 years ago. GO BUY ATALS DEBUT ALBUM!!! ITS EARGASMIC!
ahh im sorry to hear that...... but yea im gonna get the album
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awesome song... really deep. its saying how treating sometime differently could effect their lives and how a certain incident in the song could have saved a life.
Great song. Just thinking about what the song is about is saddening. Very deep and hopefully eye opening to some.
As Tall As Lions — Break Blossom No, no hesitation No, no -the things that I've Done wrong you want to know But do you want to know?
One more wrong desire One more bullet in my head I'm breaking, I’m breaking
It takes one small compliment That could save this boy From the life he spent But we're writing in his eulogy, “We didn't know How could we know?”
No, no conversation No, no cigarette to start it up again (To start it up again) There’s no, no room for heroes No, no they're already dead I’m breaking, I’m breaking
It takes one small compliment That could save this boy From the life he spent But we're writing in his eulogy, “We didn't know How could we know?”
Well I believe that I will be remembered, And i believe that I will be forgotten by a few. But even if this life is never-ending We'd get the forks and get the cake And come on boys let's celebrate
WOAH…