"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.
Last night I dreamt that you were dead
The only way that I could find
To clear you from my head
I find it hard for me
To get past all the shit you did to me
In spite, at night, I try in vain
To get my mind back right
Tongue-tied
I feel so terrified
I'm so sick of being on my own
(This feels like suicide)
Tongue-tied
I feel so dead inside
Struggling in a world I can't control
(This feels like suicide)
Some things are better left alone
Completely out of sight and mind
Never to be told
I find it harder to express
The things that no one else can see
But me, sometimes, I wait for days
To get my mind back right
Some say waiting
Taking my own time is all I can do
Should've known you'd things to hide
By the look in your eyes
I can hear the words loud
(And now I finally understand this feeling of
uncertainty that leaves me now)
The only way that I could find
To clear you from my head
I find it hard for me
To get past all the shit you did to me
In spite, at night, I try in vain
To get my mind back right
Tongue-tied
I feel so terrified
I'm so sick of being on my own
(This feels like suicide)
Tongue-tied
I feel so dead inside
Struggling in a world I can't control
(This feels like suicide)
Some things are better left alone
Completely out of sight and mind
Never to be told
I find it harder to express
The things that no one else can see
But me, sometimes, I wait for days
To get my mind back right
Some say waiting
Taking my own time is all I can do
Should've known you'd things to hide
By the look in your eyes
I can hear the words loud
(And now I finally understand this feeling of
uncertainty that leaves me now)
Lyrics submitted by winter_dark
Tongue-Tied Lyrics as written by William H. Martin
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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Never Finally understand... or perhaps Now I finally understand...? Just my opinion, I think this songs about having just broken up with a girl or having troubles with one, he refers to not being able to get her out of his head. I think he says tongue tied because he can't say what he wants to say to the girl shrugs just my interpretation. Excellent song though.
i think its pretty obvious that he is very dependent on relationships..
"Tongue tied I feel so dead inside I’m so sick of being on my own This feels like suicide Tongue tied I feel so dead inside Struggling in a world That can’t control This feels like suicide"
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The chorus--
"Tongue Tied I feel so Terrified....."
The chorus--
"Tongue Tied I feel so Terrified....."
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