"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 feel guilty
My words are empty
No signs to give you
I don't have the time for you
You say I'm heartless
And you say I don't care
I used to be there for you
And you've said I seem so dead, that I have changed
But so have you
Guilty, guilty I feel so
Empty, empty you know how to make me feel
I put a shield upon you
I didn't mean to hurt you
I would have only poisoned your mind
Never meant to make you cry
You've been so thoughtless
I can see right through you
You used to be there for me
So don't you leave say goodbye
Cause you have changed but so have I
I never thought that the time and the distance
Between us made you so much colder
I'll carry the world on my shoulders
My words are empty
No signs to give you
I don't have the time for you
You say I'm heartless
And you say I don't care
I used to be there for you
And you've said I seem so dead, that I have changed
But so have you
Guilty, guilty I feel so
Empty, empty you know how to make me feel
I put a shield upon you
I didn't mean to hurt you
I would have only poisoned your mind
Never meant to make you cry
You've been so thoughtless
I can see right through you
You used to be there for me
So don't you leave say goodbye
Cause you have changed but so have I
I never thought that the time and the distance
Between us made you so much colder
I'll carry the world on my shoulders
Lyrics submitted by Cypherrose
Guilty [DVD] Lyrics as written by Eero Heinonen Aki Hakala
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song reminds me of someone that has done bad things to another person....and they feel empty and guilty for it, but they don't have the time to mess with it anymore becuase its done with. But you used to be there for them, yet you left the pain.......yet i seem to be dying because it hurts more then you can think. Like i try to hide it from you, and i didn't mean to hurt you. If we would of stayed to gether i would of only made things worse. But i have learned that this time away from you has made you the one who is cold.
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Wow, only two comments on the most catchy Rasmus song ever, good song, I love it.
well.. i'm guessing he feels guilty.. he feels he hasn't given her what she deserves.
as Lauri has said this is a song to his friends who he has been neglecting when he travels he goes back to finland and finds that he has no time for his friends who think that he is ditching them for his career
puddin do you have Live Letters?Cause what you said is pretty much what Lauri Ylonen (yummy :P) said on it.He said it's like losing grip on your old non famous life.
It's nice he's been talking about his friends, it's pretty much the way I feel it too. I was obsessed with this song at a time, I could still strongly connect it with my best friend cause that's the way I feel about her too sometimes... or at least the way I used to feel. Great song in any case.
I love this song forever! I cant go a day without hearing it at least once. This song is awesome!!!
i just got the cd last saturday and it rocks, (lucky european / finnish people) yall get to listen to the best musik before anyone in the us,,, does anyone know if the rasmus is ever comming to aM3RIKA,
if you know please leave me a message brainlessbobblehead@msn.com
This song reminds me of me and a mate i had an argument with them they gave up on me then i gave up on them it was fucked up we tried to make up but she said i had changed when really she had...so yeh it just rocks major socks