"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.
His embrace a fortress
It fuels me and places
A skeleton of trust
Right beneath us
Bone by bone
Stone by stone
If you ask yourself
Patiently and carefully
Who is it, who is it
Who is it
That never lets you down
Who is it
That gave you back your crown
And the ornaments are
They're goin' around
Now they're handin' it over
They're handin' it over, handin' it over
Who is it
That never lets you down
Who is it
That gave you back your crown
And the ornaments are
They're goin' around
Now they're handin' it over
Handin' it over
He demands a closeness
We all have earned a lightness
Carry my joy on the left
Carry my pain on my right
If you ask yourself now
Patiently and carefully
Who is it
Who is it
That never lets you down
Who is it
That gave you back your crown
The ornaments are
They're goin' around
And they're handin' it over
Handin' it over, handin'
Who is it
That never lets you down
Who is it
That gave you back your crown
The ornaments are
They're goin' around
And they're handin' it over
Handin' it over
It fuels me and places
A skeleton of trust
Right beneath us
Bone by bone
Stone by stone
If you ask yourself
Patiently and carefully
Who is it, who is it
Who is it
That never lets you down
Who is it
That gave you back your crown
And the ornaments are
They're goin' around
Now they're handin' it over
They're handin' it over, handin' it over
Who is it
That never lets you down
Who is it
That gave you back your crown
And the ornaments are
They're goin' around
Now they're handin' it over
Handin' it over
He demands a closeness
We all have earned a lightness
Carry my joy on the left
Carry my pain on my right
If you ask yourself now
Patiently and carefully
Who is it
Who is it
That never lets you down
Who is it
That gave you back your crown
The ornaments are
They're goin' around
And they're handin' it over
Handin' it over, handin'
Who is it
That never lets you down
Who is it
That gave you back your crown
The ornaments are
They're goin' around
And they're handin' it over
Handin' it over
Lyrics submitted by bjorkellina
Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right) Lyrics as written by Bjork Gudmundsdottir
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i think the song is about god and who he/she/it is. Its questionign our creator and why he made us.
Who is it That never lets you down?
because it's always there. I dont beleive in god as a he, she, or it who wants us to worship him, i beleive it is someone who doesent mind if we dont beleive. i doubt any real creator would make a law "thou shalt not worship any god but me.", i doubt our creator is that fucking selfish, to em, that is THE most selfish of all the ten commandments.
she doesnt like religion mivikudags!!! so your wrong
Good defeats evil. Every time.<br /> God = Good = win <br /> Everything else = evil = lose<br /> <br /> The 10 commandments are there to show us what sin is. Sin is what prevents us from being saved. Worshiping something other than the winner (winner = God) will prevent you from being saved.<br /> <br /> Now that being said, the 10 commandments are not there to save us. The only thing that can save us the grace, the love of God. The 10 commandments just shows us all the things we do wrong so we know how much we need the grace of God.<br /> <br /> So really, that is a commandment made out of love, like all the others.<br /> <br /> Hopefully you understand... God is nothing but selfless, unconditional love. :)
@Mivikudags @eevabo they are not necessarily wrong, as the song to them could be about God (the lyrics very much portray a conversation with a God). So they are not "wrong" in the sense that music is interpretative and this can easily be perceived as being about a god.