"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.
cause what i feel inside
i dont want to hide
it's you that got to me
its what i want to sing
cause i've got a dream for us
running through my mind
sitting on the beach
looking at the sea
and we're old and tired
and time has made us smile
as we go on counting things
people in the breeze
we're not the only ones
there's hundreds on the shore
looking at the sea
but it's just you and me
if the day never comes
i sink beneath the tide
will you still be with me
or disappear?
i dont want to hide
it's you that got to me
its what i want to sing
cause i've got a dream for us
running through my mind
sitting on the beach
looking at the sea
and we're old and tired
and time has made us smile
as we go on counting things
people in the breeze
we're not the only ones
there's hundreds on the shore
looking at the sea
but it's just you and me
if the day never comes
i sink beneath the tide
will you still be with me
or disappear?
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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Blue
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Ed Sheeran
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American Town
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Ed Sheeran
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Atemporal is 21, so yes this world is definately going straight to hell with close minded souless bastards like him. He also thinks he is a punk and likes NOFX, therefore he wants to prove himself by calling others pussies.
People like Atemporal and every other one of you sacks of shit that made fun of somebody crying over a song are exactly the types of people that should not exist on this earth. These people are only good for causing pain and suffering, manual labor, or sending off to war.
hehe. at least he can spell!!!! :D
i don't think your boyfriend is a wuss. this is a beautiful song, enough to make anybody shed a tear. i think these other guys are just too self conscious to let anyone see all of them.
how can no one have commented about this song? i put this song as the last song on a mix i made for my boyfriend, and he cried when he heard it. he doesn't listen to all of the music i do, but we bonded on a level i never thought possible, and all because of this song. <3
thats so sweet man...i agree...catagorization is such a lame thing...if you like something you like it...thats all it should be...dont need to go ragging on somebody cause they like different things then you...if you enjoy something then listen to it...if not...who cares?...that monopoly statement was wack as hell though...
this song is amazing - it sort of makes me depressed, but "cause what i feel inside i dont want to hide it's you that got to me" is one of the greatest things i've ever heard
and i totally agree with deaffromsilence - the people who think like atemporal probably just shouldnt be alive. this song made me shed a tear - and i really don't care...neither should you..just admit you cried and it will all be okay :)
meh. cry or no cry, its a good song. everyone stop getting so personal all the time. music is to be interpreted in different ways, so however you react to a song is your reaction and nobody elses business.
when i heard this song i welled up, but i dont really cry. and i welled up with joy at the ending part...because its pretty much totally perfect.
awesome song,i had it for a long time and never listened to it because the intro was so long i figured it was going to be an instrumental,then one night i was laying in bed listening to it and i heard the lyrics and it hit.this song is perfection,nothing needs to be added,its perfection and nothing less.once i started listening to Pedro the Lion i never thought i would find anything else that i could relate to so well,but the Appleseed cast proved me wrong by writing songs like this.i remember laying in the sand one day as the water came up and just floating back and forth with the tide and thinking of this song running my fingers across the sand,just thinking about things.
this song is amazing and i wish more people could hear appleseed cast and their music. they are sim ply amazing and are one of my favorite bands
I love how this is like a reprise to "Hanging Marionette."