"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 wear a smile
I wear a laugh
On in the back stage changing heads
I am a weekday on weekends
I hate my best friends
Spoken, choked up on my notes
This heart drones
As I try and act adult
But like a Walkman falls to pieces
All parts no high
See me change, changes are no good
See me change, changes are no good
See me change
All the world's deranged
And I'm left crushed
People delayed are in a rush
I'm on a roll
But I might throw up
Will I ruin my make-up?
See me change, changes are no good
See me change, changes are no good
See me change
See me change, changes are no good
See friends change, changes are no good
See me change
I wear a laugh
On in the back stage changing heads
I am a weekday on weekends
I hate my best friends
Spoken, choked up on my notes
This heart drones
As I try and act adult
But like a Walkman falls to pieces
All parts no high
See me change, changes are no good
See me change, changes are no good
See me change
All the world's deranged
And I'm left crushed
People delayed are in a rush
I'm on a roll
But I might throw up
Will I ruin my make-up?
See me change, changes are no good
See me change, changes are no good
See me change
See me change, changes are no good
See friends change, changes are no good
See me change
Lyrics submitted by OwnPersonalDemon
Changes Are No Good Lyrics as written by Olivier Corbeil David Alexandre Hamelin
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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a song about depression and putting on a facade in public. "on in the backstage changing heads", just about the act he puts on in front of people and at shows.. while realising that everything is changing, this could be the rest for the sadness
to me it is about depression but more so having to do with the woes of becoming an adult. i am a weekday on weekends, changes are no good. growing up is hard. this song describes it perfectly.
this is one of my favourite songs and i agree with michael completely, song about depression
This song reminds me so much of 'We Wear the Mask' by Dunbar.
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This song. is amazing.
i wear the smile i wear the laugh i'm in the backstage changing hats and i'm a weekday on week-ends i hate my best friends
spoke and choked i burnt my notes this heart drones as i try and act adult but like a walkman falls to pieces all parts, no heart
see me change changes are no good see me change
all the world's deranged and i'm left crushed people delayed or in a rush i'm on a roll but i might throw up will it ruin my make-up?
this song is beautiful
Favorite line: "i wear the smile, i wear the laugh. i'm in the backstage changing heads, i am a weekday on week-ends, i hate my best friends..."
It just blows me away...
"But like a walkman falls to pieces, all parts no heart."
I love that line. If I said it, I'd sound completely stupid, but it just sounds right coming from someone who makes music. He's a complex person, but right now he's got nothing and feels nothing.
I don't know why he says "see me change, changes are no good," because he is singing about how he's stuck in a rut...doesn't he want to get out of his low point?
I love this song. Tim's voice is so perfect.