"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.
"well show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
the one that makes me scream," she said
"the one that makes me laugh," she said,
and threw her arms around my head
"well show me how you do it
and i promise you, i promise that
i'll run away with you,
i'll run away with you"
we're spinning on that dizzy air
i kiss your face, and kiss your hair
i dreamed of all the different ways
i have to let her know
and scream, "why are you so far away?"
she said, "won't you ever know that i'm in love with you,
yeah, i'm in love with you."
for you, that's soft and lonely
you, lost and only
you, the strangest angels dancing in the deepest ocean
existing in the world, you're just like a dream
you're just like a dream
will daylight whip me into shape?
i must have been asleep for days
and moving lips can breathe a name
i opened up my eyes
and found myself alone, alone
alone up on the ranges
IT STOLE THE ONLY GIRL I LOVE
and drowned her deep inside of me
you, that's lost and only
you, soft and lonely
you, you're just like heaven
the one that makes me scream," she said
"the one that makes me laugh," she said,
and threw her arms around my head
"well show me how you do it
and i promise you, i promise that
i'll run away with you,
i'll run away with you"
we're spinning on that dizzy air
i kiss your face, and kiss your hair
i dreamed of all the different ways
i have to let her know
and scream, "why are you so far away?"
she said, "won't you ever know that i'm in love with you,
yeah, i'm in love with you."
for you, that's soft and lonely
you, lost and only
you, the strangest angels dancing in the deepest ocean
existing in the world, you're just like a dream
you're just like a dream
will daylight whip me into shape?
i must have been asleep for days
and moving lips can breathe a name
i opened up my eyes
and found myself alone, alone
alone up on the ranges
IT STOLE THE ONLY GIRL I LOVE
and drowned her deep inside of me
you, that's lost and only
you, soft and lonely
you, you're just like heaven
Lyrics submitted by nashional
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this cover. i just love. adam. i love. i think that it is one of the best covers i have herad in a while.
i love this cover- its awesome. and i like these guys acoustic
awsome cover.
this covers cool, i cant to see them in june, ive waiting 2 years for them 2 come to the uk, woohoo.
when they do this
any man that listens to this music, is a huge pussy.. Chicks are ok.... but men should be moshing to metal..
this sounds like shit.
adam is so amazing. this cover is beautiful. any guy that agrees is so adorable. any guy that sings like him is wonderful. adam lazzara is my heart attack. mmm
why would anyone even attempt to do a cover of the cure? how lame.
You sir are a bitch. The Cure may sing like pussies but either fuckin way their music is tight as hell. Music about love is the shit and dudes who understand that are the ones that get more pussy than all of you hardcore metal thrasher bitches out there.