"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.
I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clocks screaming monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Of alarm clocks screaming monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
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I think this song is of someone's inner imagination. Their dreamland, that's my perception...She's asleep, but then again she's not..."I lie inside myself for hours..."She's dreaming of her own imaginary world escapimg our reality....I love this song!!!
okay. this has to be one of my faves on fallen. here's my opinion on what the song means:
VERSE: "I linger in the doorway Of alarm clock screaming monsters calling my name Let me stay Where the wind will whisper to me Where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story"
MEANING: you're sleeping. dreaming. fantasizing. all of a better world. a better place. a better time. you all of a sudden wake up to your alarm clock screaming at you. it brings you back to the cruelty and coldness of reality. a place you would rather not be.
CHORUS: "In my field of paper flowers And candy clouds of lullaby I lie inside myself for hours And watch my purple sky fly over me"
MEANING: this is the description of your alternate reality. pretty paper flowers. the sweetness of candy clouds that keep you in your silent sleep. you can find yourself lying there for all eternity as you watch the beautiful purple sky fly over you.
VERSE 2: "Don't say I'm out of touch With this rampant chaos - your reality I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge The nightmare - I built my own world to escape"
MEANING: even though you love dreaming more than living in such a cruel world, you can still tell the difference between dreams and reality. but reality is a nightmare. and you know how to escape. the only way is to dream something better than the world you know.
(repeat chorus)
BRIDGE: "Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming The goddess of imaginary light"
MEANING: when you awaken, all your fears are real. right before your eyes. all you want is to leave the harshness of real life. you long for your dreams. you crave them. they are the only thing that keeps you from losing yourself.
(repeat chorus)
good song...estocopath, i'm curious or just stupid...what do you mean by "ties to tourniquet"? I don't think they're lyrically or stylistically that similar...maybe i'm just an idiot :)
A true artist! I am so like this! There would be times (especially after a bad break-up) where I would just sleep on my couch all day dreaming of a better place.
To me life is so torturous at times. And ironically like this song the monsters in fairy tales are existent in this world, while my little place inside my heart is so safe and full of love.
There is another song I'd like to quote as a part of this interpretation. It's called Sleep from the Conjure One CD. It goes:
"Without sleep there are no dreams Withour dreams we fall apart at the seams"
I seriously love to dream. I love to be in my own world where reality can't come and whisk away your loved ones with its deathly grip, where a person cannot be stand wrongly accused and suffer for it, where supposed lovers cannot turn their back on you when you've needed them the most, when you've been there for them, and of course, where hate and lies does not coat this world in bitter darkness.
EVANESCENCE ROX!
Don't you think that this song should have gotten a video? It would have been awesome.
It's still an amazing song, and I love it.
Love the contstruction of this version (backing vocals, the tie to tourniquet, etc) but perfer the lyrical structure of the previous version... ah, to each his own. FALLEN is an absolute awesome album... one of the top 5 i own.
By those ties, i'm refering to the musical fade (outro of tourniquet/intro of imaginary) on the cd "FALLEN." i just loved the way they worked that on the cd.
I was refering to the musical fade (outro of tourniquet/intro of imaginary) that i absolutely fell in love with on the cd "FALLEN." it's one of my favorite parts. Also, check out the chanting on "Whisper" at the very end. a few changes from the original mixes that are absolutely awesome.
Yeah...that turned out really good...it was seamless transition...not many artists can pull it off that well.