"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 fed the clues of a lost day killed in motion
But I thought of it so
Like there's no other way it could've been done
Will they size my fit
For a puzzle I wish not to play a part in it?
A heart stained in hate
A feeling I fear will play circles
But you, you were my favorite
But you, you know, you were my favorite
I severed my ties
To shroud this body under the streets of this city
And wait for the day
When I am summoned to walk across the face
Well, slowly but clearer now
In visions that play and plague memories
I love them with all (heart)
As a son should to mother and father
But you, you were my favorite
But you, you know, you were my favorite
Would I walk through the door?
Shedding the light of all life
With the rise and reform
Would I come as before?
Pray you're not the only one
Pray you're not the only
If given mistakes would I take them back?
If erasing them could, if erasing them would
What would they be, the words that I say?
Your face and a door between
I've parted three ways
For you, the Newo that I loved (loved)
Did you ever really know before my face, shamed to break?
Did you ever really know before my mind, scared to think
Did you ever really know before my name, son to these?
Did you, did you, did you come clean in the end from the start?
Dear Ambelina
The Prise wishes you
To watch over me, oh whoa
Dear Ambelina
The Prise wishes you
To watch over me, oh whoa
I've fought the decisions that called and lost
My mark and the relevant piece in this
I will come reformed
In short, for the murders of those I court
I bless the hour that holds your fall
I will kill you all
I will call you out from shelter (I will call you out)
Burn your wings, you'll know no better (burn your wings)
I will call you out from shelter (I will call you out)
Burn your wings and learn their letters (burn your wings)
Dear Ambelina (I will call you out from shelter)
The Prise wishes you (burn your wings)
To watch over me, oh whoa (burn your wings)
I will call you out from shelter (I will call you out)
Burn your wings and learn their letters (burn your wings)
Dear Ambelina (I will call you out from shelter)
The Prise wishes you (burn your wings)
To watch over me (burn your wings)
But I thought of it so
Like there's no other way it could've been done
Will they size my fit
For a puzzle I wish not to play a part in it?
A heart stained in hate
A feeling I fear will play circles
But you, you were my favorite
But you, you know, you were my favorite
I severed my ties
To shroud this body under the streets of this city
And wait for the day
When I am summoned to walk across the face
Well, slowly but clearer now
In visions that play and plague memories
I love them with all (heart)
As a son should to mother and father
But you, you were my favorite
But you, you know, you were my favorite
Would I walk through the door?
Shedding the light of all life
With the rise and reform
Would I come as before?
Pray you're not the only one
Pray you're not the only
If given mistakes would I take them back?
If erasing them could, if erasing them would
What would they be, the words that I say?
Your face and a door between
I've parted three ways
For you, the Newo that I loved (loved)
Did you ever really know before my face, shamed to break?
Did you ever really know before my mind, scared to think
Did you ever really know before my name, son to these?
Did you, did you, did you come clean in the end from the start?
Dear Ambelina
The Prise wishes you
To watch over me, oh whoa
Dear Ambelina
The Prise wishes you
To watch over me, oh whoa
I've fought the decisions that called and lost
My mark and the relevant piece in this
I will come reformed
In short, for the murders of those I court
I bless the hour that holds your fall
I will kill you all
I will call you out from shelter (I will call you out)
Burn your wings, you'll know no better (burn your wings)
I will call you out from shelter (I will call you out)
Burn your wings and learn their letters (burn your wings)
Dear Ambelina (I will call you out from shelter)
The Prise wishes you (burn your wings)
To watch over me, oh whoa (burn your wings)
I will call you out from shelter (I will call you out)
Burn your wings and learn their letters (burn your wings)
Dear Ambelina (I will call you out from shelter)
The Prise wishes you (burn your wings)
To watch over me (burn your wings)
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well, the girl he loves is named newo ikkin and the burn your wings thing has nothing to do with ambellina, he is talking to the people who killed his parents. basically saying "when i find you, ill call you out, bring you down from the pedastel on which you hold yourself, and then youll know better than to mess with me"....in a nutshell...
the burn your wings has everything to do with ambelina. ambelina was a prise that was cast out of the sisterhood in order to protect claudio. her wings and hair were burnt off, making her no longer a prise, but still more than human. but like eternityawaits said, here wings weren't burnt off as a punishment, but just as a way to seperate her from the rest of the prise.
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I dont think the :burn your wings" has anything to do with burning her/its wings. I think it is simbolizing her turning in to a uman to watch over him and inform him of his parents death. BTW, I read that she turns into a human at the Co Ca message board. Yall should check it out. coheedandcambria.com
you guys got it. Ambellina was sent by the Prise to become a human and watch over Claudio. she tells him what has happened and what he has to do. the 3 ways are: returning to Newo, saving the universe, and giving up on life and letting everything fade to dust. Claudio is the last hope for the universe.
ambellina....that's a beautiful name. and so is this song. Is it wrong that I listen to the songs and love them regardless of the story they tell?
No. It's not wrong. I'm the same way. I can just sit back and listen without even thinking about what they mean.
this song is one of the easier ones to understand... kinda... anyway i love the end of this song =) now thanks to this site i know something of what goes on in each song... i just can't seem to string them all together. what is this about claudio falling asleep?
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