"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.
Asleep at the wheel a red light mistake
take my word for what its worth
life at a stand still not one second passes
and in the asphault I see a best friend
(crashing through the window)
Dont move
Save me
Cry out
To god above
And would you save everyone if you
saw them dying
watch as they slip through your hands
bring me back to life bring them back to life
one step further from all of this
Abstract emotions in dealing with death
the warmth of my breath turns to ice
beating the concrete your hands
cut and bruised and in the end
not a question of why
(crashing through the window)
Dont move
Save me
Cry out
To god above
And would you save everyone
if you saw them dying
watch as they slip through your hands
bring them back to life bring them back to life
one step further from all of this
Never forget what I'm bleeding
gasp for air now I am apart of this
leave me suffering never break
your promises
never forget and you'll
never forget what i've done
And would you save everyone
if you saw them dying
watch as they slip through your hands
bring me back to life bring them back to life
one step further from all of this
Dont move
Save me
Cry out
To god above
take my word for what its worth
life at a stand still not one second passes
and in the asphault I see a best friend
(crashing through the window)
Dont move
Save me
Cry out
To god above
And would you save everyone if you
saw them dying
watch as they slip through your hands
bring me back to life bring them back to life
one step further from all of this
Abstract emotions in dealing with death
the warmth of my breath turns to ice
beating the concrete your hands
cut and bruised and in the end
not a question of why
(crashing through the window)
Dont move
Save me
Cry out
To god above
And would you save everyone
if you saw them dying
watch as they slip through your hands
bring them back to life bring them back to life
one step further from all of this
Never forget what I'm bleeding
gasp for air now I am apart of this
leave me suffering never break
your promises
never forget and you'll
never forget what i've done
And would you save everyone
if you saw them dying
watch as they slip through your hands
bring me back to life bring them back to life
one step further from all of this
Dont move
Save me
Cry out
To god above
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you sound illiterate
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this song moves from life to death. i cant really get this. im confused. late night hours, mix it with insomnia...me:) someone who has too much time to think about this shizzle
my personal favorite by ACOP....as for the meaning...pretty straight forward...guy gets in a car crash (asleep at the wheel) his best friend gets thrown through the windshield and probably gets killed and the driver probably lives and feels at fault for the death of his friend. the song pretty much narrates the story..
you biznatch has it down. pretty straightforward
sorry but your_biznatch..your wrong....on there live show the lead singer said that it wuz about drunk driving and he wuz in the car with him and they were drunk
This song has actually been "dedicated" by Torry himself to a few different events. He WAS in a car accident. A prety bad one. And one of his friends was in a different car accident that was even worse.