"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.
Black Horse Riding Star
Good - Bye
And Damn You.....
Sick Girl want to cry
Said Good -Bye
And Damn You
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
I'm So High and you can't feel it
Black Horse Riding Star
Break My Heart
And Fuck You.....
Sick Girl want to cry
Said Break My Heart
And Fuck You
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
I'm So High and you can't feel it
It's all fucked you've blown it
There is no recovery
It's all fucked you 've blown it
You took that away from me
It's all fucked you've blown it
There is no recovery
It's all fucked you've blown it
You took that away from me
Once there was an ocean
That came into my arm
Horse made out of Black Tar
Kept us Safe from Harm
The day with no emotion
We drift into the sea
All I could remember
I wished I wasn't me
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Good - Bye
And Damn You.....
Sick Girl want to cry
Said Good -Bye
And Damn You
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
I'm So High and you can't feel it
Black Horse Riding Star
Break My Heart
And Fuck You.....
Sick Girl want to cry
Said Break My Heart
And Fuck You
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
I'm So High and you can't feel it
It's all fucked you've blown it
There is no recovery
It's all fucked you 've blown it
You took that away from me
It's all fucked you've blown it
There is no recovery
It's all fucked you've blown it
You took that away from me
Once there was an ocean
That came into my arm
Horse made out of Black Tar
Kept us Safe from Harm
The day with no emotion
We drift into the sea
All I could remember
I wished I wasn't me
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't feel it
So High and you can't
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Black Horse Riding Star
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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Jessicka described this song to be about someone you love dying, and you being mad at them for leaving you.
Hm. I had heard and was pretty sure this one was about the highs and lows of heroine.
1st hit: all happy.
after the 1st hit wears off, you "crash": ( It's all fucked, you blew it...." 2nd hit: This it goes to get happy again, like taking another hit.
I can see why you would think it was aout heroine.
"Once there was an ocean That came into my arm"
"So High and you can't feel it "
"Kept us Safe from Harm The day with no emotion We drift into the sea All I could remember I wished I wasn't me"
"There is no recovery"
I think having the clue of heroine being pointed out to me by 100687, it was easy to figure out the heroine idea. This however may be the completly wrong idea.
Switch the words around.. "Black Star Riding Horse" Riding horse means to be on heroin..
I believe it was said by the moderator of scarling.net...though I may be wrong, but I think I am right.
It could very well be about heroin, "Horse made of black tar" Black tar heroin.. Also, as KillMeFaster said it could be about someone you love dying and being angry
"Sick Girl want to cry Said Good -Bye And Damn You"
So in a sense it could be maybe that they both are/were heroin addicts, and that she's high but he's dead and so he can't feel it
"Horse made out of Black Tar Kept us Safe from Harm The day with no emotion We drift into the sea All I could remember I wished I wasn't me "
Perhaps there it expresses the day that he did die, and how they were using heroin to help cope with their problems but that day he died, and she was just numb to it all and depressed wishing to be someone else. Maybe. Oh. What does this song mean to me? didn't see that To me it means coping in unhealthy ways, being numb, not knowing who you are and not being comfortable in your own skin, istlessness
I like this song,I especially like it when the song stops and Jessicka starts almost saying poetry. Once there was an ocean That came into my arm Horse made out of Black Tar Kept us Safe from Harm The day with no emotion We drift into the sea All I could remember I wished I wasn't me I like the last 2 lines as well.
I like this song,I especially like it when the song stops and Jessicka starts almost saying poetry. Once there was an ocean That came into my arm Horse made out of Black Tar Kept us Safe from Harm The day with no emotion We drift into the sea All I could remember I wished I wasn't me I like the last 2 lines as well.
I like this song,I especially like it when the song stops and Jessicka starts almost saying poetry. Once there was an ocean That came into my arm Horse made out of Black Tar Kept us Safe from Harm The day with no emotion We drift into the sea All I could remember I wished I wasn't me I like the last 2 lines as well.
We got it the first time.