"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.
Father I've sinned
Over and over and over and over again
Sorry my friends
I'm such a mess
I'm doing the best I can
She says "where ya goin'? where ya been?"
She says "I don't want you hanging out with them"
She leaves like she's never coming back again on and on
It goes on and on yea
She says "I don't love you like I loved you before"
She says, she says "I don't love you anymore"
And mother I've tried over and over and over to open my eyes
Look at my life
Tell me when did I die
Cause I'm not alive
Flip through the script and tell me what it says
Skip through the story tell me how it ends
She says that we're probably better off as friends
On and on and yea
She says "I don't love you like I loved you before"
She says, she says yea
She says "I don't love you.
I don't love you anymore."
She says, she says "I don't love you. I don't love you. I don't love you anymore."
She says she says she says "where ya going"
I know I know I know I know I know
She says she says she says "where ya going"
I know I know I know I know I know
She says she says she says "where ya going"
I know I know I know I know I know
She says she says she says "where ya going"
I know I know I know I know I know
What I want
You, you called the police
You called them on me
And I want to go anywhere but home
I, I'm done listening to what's wrong with me
Cause it goes on and on and on and on YEA
She says "I don't love you like I loved you before"
She says she says, yea
She says "I don't love you. I don't love you anymore"
She says, she says "I don't love like I love you anymore."
Over and over and over and over again
Sorry my friends
I'm such a mess
I'm doing the best I can
She says "where ya goin'? where ya been?"
She says "I don't want you hanging out with them"
She leaves like she's never coming back again on and on
It goes on and on yea
She says "I don't love you like I loved you before"
She says, she says "I don't love you anymore"
And mother I've tried over and over and over to open my eyes
Look at my life
Tell me when did I die
Cause I'm not alive
Flip through the script and tell me what it says
Skip through the story tell me how it ends
She says that we're probably better off as friends
On and on and yea
She says "I don't love you like I loved you before"
She says, she says yea
She says "I don't love you.
I don't love you anymore."
She says, she says "I don't love you. I don't love you. I don't love you anymore."
She says she says she says "where ya going"
I know I know I know I know I know
She says she says she says "where ya going"
I know I know I know I know I know
She says she says she says "where ya going"
I know I know I know I know I know
She says she says she says "where ya going"
I know I know I know I know I know
What I want
You, you called the police
You called them on me
And I want to go anywhere but home
I, I'm done listening to what's wrong with me
Cause it goes on and on and on and on YEA
She says "I don't love you like I loved you before"
She says she says, yea
She says "I don't love you. I don't love you anymore"
She says, she says "I don't love like I love you anymore."
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russo said its about ppl being ppl and someone telling u that they dont love u any more.. and apparently he got the cops called upon him and so the songs ends with police... also his girlfriend said to him 'i dont love u like i love u anymore' thinking its a great phrase he wrote it in to the song...
pretty sweet
Father ive sinned over and over and over and over again sorry my friends, im such a mess im doing the best i can
THis verse to me is like a confession he is making and also just telling him friends his sorry for the fucked up things he has done... its kinda of self explanatory
she says where ya goin where ya been she says i dont want you hanging out with them she leaves like she is never coming back again
This part i think its his mom visting him and asking him lke where have you been etc. cause she is pissed cause he is to wild... yet she lives the room after screaming at him like she is never going to come back yet she will always be there for him cause its his son
she says i dont love you like i loved you before she says she says i dont love you any more
this part is him talking to his mom telling him his problems with his gf
and mother ived tried, over and over to open my eyes look at my life and tell me when did i die cuz im not alive
still talking to his mom .. asking her for directions
flip through the script and tell me what it says skip through the story tell me how it ends
you know how when we are unsure about somehting we ask our parents if everything is oing to be ok.... and if they say yes.. it just makes us feel better... i guess that is what he is doing here .. getting comfort from his mom
she says that were probably better off as friends
here he is telling his mom what his gf said again...
she says i dont love you like i love'd you before she says she says yeah, she says i dont love you i dont love you anymore she says, she says i dont love you, i dont love you i dont love you anymore she said she said she said where ya goin'
you, you call the police, you called them on me
his talking to his gf like telling her look ehat you have done to me .. that you even called the police!!
and i want to go anywhere but home i im done with listening to whats wrong with me cuz it goes on and on and on and on yeahh
here he is telling his gf that he doesnt even want to go home so therewas no need for the police cause he hates it there cause he is never good enough!
she says i dont love you like i loved you before she says she says yeahh she says i dont love you i dont love you anymore she says she says, i dont love you
I like this song. The song is self explainatory, It's about him disappointing his mother and her saying that she doesnt love him like she used to and that now she doesn't love him like she used to. Its so sad...
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i dont love you like i loved you before OUCH!!!! my ex said htat to me....meh what the hell....
Well i think it is about a relationship with a girl who separated the boy from his friends. And now that they are not together, the boy is trying to apologize. He is also asking his mother for help, cause he hadn't realised what he had done: " over and over to open my eyes". The final part of the song talks about how the boy gets rejected when he tries to make amends with the girl, and how he find that the only thing that the girl said is the bad things he does, so he finally find out he is better without her. Great song, I love it.
best song on the cd
I was listening to the radio one night and i heard this song.....it's cool
I dont like the chorus but the rest of the song is good.
I like the chorus; it blends the soft-rock world of the verses with a more hard-rock vibe. Plus the melody is just awesome.
I LOVE this song.
I love this song. It definately is about a girl telling him she doesn't love him anymore...hint: MAYBE about she found another guy or he cheated on her. "she leaves like she never coming back again." probably about she keeps leaving him but he knows she'll come back eventually because she keeps leaving. "she says, where you going, where you been? she says i dont want you hanging out with them" she is worried about his safety and she is probably worried he might be cheating on her.
well thats what i think at least.