"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 wake up to find myself
After all these years
And though all this time has gone
It still seems so unclear
'Cause there's no one else,
Since I found you
I know its been so hard
You should know
If I die tomorrow
As the minutes fade away
I can't remember
Have I said all I can say?
Your my everything
You make me feel so alive
If I die tomorrow
It brings out the worst in me
When your not around
I miss the sound of your voice
The silence seems so loud
'Cause there's no one else,
Since I found you
I know its been so hard
You should know
If I die tomorrow
As the minutes fade away
I can't remember
Have I said all I can say?
Your my everything
You make me feel so alive
If I die tomorrow
I spent all my life
Looking for our innocence
I've got nothing to lose
One thing to prove
I won't make the same mistakes
And now I know
That everything will be okay
If I die tomorrow
If I die tomorrow
As the minutes fade away
I can't remember
Have I said all I can say?
Your my everything
You make me feel so alive
Your my everything
You make me feel so alive
If I die tomorrow
If I die tomorrow
After all these years
And though all this time has gone
It still seems so unclear
'Cause there's no one else,
Since I found you
I know its been so hard
You should know
If I die tomorrow
As the minutes fade away
I can't remember
Have I said all I can say?
Your my everything
You make me feel so alive
If I die tomorrow
It brings out the worst in me
When your not around
I miss the sound of your voice
The silence seems so loud
'Cause there's no one else,
Since I found you
I know its been so hard
You should know
If I die tomorrow
As the minutes fade away
I can't remember
Have I said all I can say?
Your my everything
You make me feel so alive
If I die tomorrow
I spent all my life
Looking for our innocence
I've got nothing to lose
One thing to prove
I won't make the same mistakes
And now I know
That everything will be okay
If I die tomorrow
If I die tomorrow
As the minutes fade away
I can't remember
Have I said all I can say?
Your my everything
You make me feel so alive
Your my everything
You make me feel so alive
If I die tomorrow
If I die tomorrow
Lyrics submitted by lilcrow, edited by DanMercury
If I Die Tomorrow Lyrics as written by Nikki Sixx Charles-andre Comeau
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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i translated these my self and its the first site to have them up on the net, great song
yeah i heard on the radio it was written by simple plan, that kinda sux but its still a good song regardless, interresting stuff slipknotfan
Great song... very hard. funny thing about it though... it was actually written by Simple Plan. When they decided not to use to for their record, they gave it to Bob Rock who gave it to Motley Crue who did their own changes. So next time you hear it, remember that it coulda come close to being on a Simple Plan record.
I LOVE this song... I find it very hard to imagine this song on a Simple Plan cd. I think the lead singer's voice sounds too "boyish" to sing this song. I think it sounds better harder
Anybody watch the video to this song? I was watching it yesterday and noticed something.
In case you haven't seen it, it has a woman in an art museum looking at many paintings when each Motley Crue member pulls her in some of them. Here's what I noticed: What is going on in the MC's painting world reflects on the roughest parts of their lives.
Vince Neil: He's driving in a car with the chick and it appears he's driving real fast and the chick is freaking out. Didn't Vince get in a car wreck that killed someone? Nikki Sixx: He is in a coffin where he's dead and the chick appears as a nurse and she plunges a needle into his heart bringing him back to life. Any Crue fan should know what this is about. Tommy Lee: It appears he's in a jail cell and he's screaming as if in pain or agony. He did serve some time for beating up Pamela Lee when they were married. Mick Mars: This is one I don't know about. He is standing at the end of a cliff with wings on him and falls off as the wings fall of themselves and the chick tries to save him. Has anything similar to this happened to Mick?
Interesting, huh?
I completely agree with your interpretations on Neil and Lee; but I think Sixx and Mars are wrong.<br /> <br /> I think Mick Mars is the second picture and the hospital scene is his Ankylosing Spondylitis and then the last picture is Nikki Sixx and tells the story of his drugs with the spoons. Also cross references with Dancing on Glass lyrics;<br /> "I've been thru Hell<br /> And I'm never goin' back<br /> To dancing on glass"<br /> because I'm guessing when he fell he fell into Hell and then he came back up.<br /> I dunno this is my interpretation; I could be completely wrong xD ^^;
@Slipknotfan85 That part of the video with the flames on a cliff, that's Nikki Sixx, not Mick Mars. I think they were expressing his struggles with drugs, hence the spoons and flames. The cliff may be a feeling he had about using not really sure but that's what it seems like to me.
Easily mistaken for a love song, but Vince once said to him it's basically a message from band member to band member
"Mick Mars: This is one I don't know about. He is standing at the end of a cliff with wings on him and falls off as the wings fall of themselves and the chick tries to save him. Has anything similar to this happened to Mick? "
actually if you look close on that one the flames surrounding him are on spoons which is hinting at drugs for him. good song alot of meaning to it and kinda emotional considering who it is......you go from girls girls girls to if i die tomorrow
Nice observation Slipknotfan85! I actually did not notice the references to the actual events until you mentioned them.
However, upon closer observation, I noticed that Mick Mars comes second (after Vince). He has a severe back condition and has had it for years resulting in a hip replacement a few months ago… I think this is what they are referencing.
Nikki is last (after Tommy), and the spoons obliviously reference his heroin addiction of the mid 80\'s.
Also, the car that Vince is driving in the Video is a Ford Pantera. This is the same car that Vince was driving home from the liquor store with friend Razzle (Hanoi Rocks). He had been drinking, and lost control of the car and ended up in an accident with a VW Beetle (if i recall correctly) killing Razzle and a passenger in the other car, and leaving the driver of the VW paralyzed. Vince escaped unscathed. I think the actual car Vince crashed, however, was red, not yellow as shown in the video.
actually trin55, it ISN't aboout the hip replacement, but it IS about his back condition, he has AS(Ankylosing Spondylitis) which is very painful. It's a bending of the spin/ slowly & painfully over years the spine basically will bend itself & stay that way/ Which is why he is bent over like he's holding a very small cane.
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