"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.
Piece by piece
I release
once was mine
now undone
turned blue like New
Orleans
and went down like
a southern sun
I still feel you
beneath my skin
I am tempted
to throw my senses in
'cos its easier to fly
than to face another night in southern sun
and your love is all around
(x2)
in the air to set me free
set me free
you last like a song
I'm deflated
I am pieces on the wind
unrelated
I still feel you
beneath my skin
I am tempted
to throw my senses in
'cos its easier to fly
than to face another night in southern sun
and your love is all around
in the air to set me free
set me free
'cos its easier to fly
set me free
I release
once was mine
now undone
turned blue like New
Orleans
and went down like
a southern sun
I still feel you
beneath my skin
I am tempted
to throw my senses in
'cos its easier to fly
than to face another night in southern sun
and your love is all around
(x2)
in the air to set me free
set me free
you last like a song
I'm deflated
I am pieces on the wind
unrelated
I still feel you
beneath my skin
I am tempted
to throw my senses in
'cos its easier to fly
than to face another night in southern sun
and your love is all around
in the air to set me free
set me free
'cos its easier to fly
set me free
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
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'Cause it's easier to have dreamt Than to find somewhere I feel sincerity And our truth comes back around In the air, tonight for me, tonight for me
Though I initially thought it was sung as "..easier to drown" too.
Really well mixing of mood with lyrics. Good song. There's also a radio cut version that I've heard, but never got hold of.
@brimspark <br /> When I first heard this song I was living in spain In the mountains,me and my girlfriend had recently split up after a long relationship,so I was alone in this beautiful villa,can't explain the loneliness and the heartache I went through.<br /> Not long after I moved back to the UK.<br /> Because it was easier to fly,than to face another night of southern sun.<br /> The lyrics fitted my situation to the letter at the time.<br /> Song still breaks my heart...always end up in tears after listening to it..still an amazing song whatever or however it fits in your life..