"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.
Do I just let go - turn my head say “no”?
Should I go with the flow - try to take control (control)?
Would it be alright if I tried to deny- the Ghost of my life
I don’t feel so right (not so right).
Emotion, who are you?
Emotion, who are you?
Through darkness or light - You’ll see me through
Instill in me- what I feel in you
These lyrics I scream - falling down on me
These visions and dreams - what’s this I see (in me)?
Are you inside my bones - 'cause I feel you strong
Everywhere I turn, Omipresent Ghost (you are a ghost)
Emotion who are you?
Should I go with the flow - try to take control (control)?
Would it be alright if I tried to deny- the Ghost of my life
I don’t feel so right (not so right).
Emotion, who are you?
Emotion, who are you?
Through darkness or light - You’ll see me through
Instill in me- what I feel in you
These lyrics I scream - falling down on me
These visions and dreams - what’s this I see (in me)?
Are you inside my bones - 'cause I feel you strong
Everywhere I turn, Omipresent Ghost (you are a ghost)
Emotion who are you?
Lyrics submitted by OldBrandon82
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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Mountain Song
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Head > Heels
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What an awesome song! The riff at the begining is phenominal. The song sort of sounds like 'we are breaking the legs of sheep" (or something like that) played by kids in the way. I think I want to go out and buy this cd!
I have this freaken cd and if you don't you so should go get it right now!!! it is the best
The best subseven song ever..
awesome song.
really? it sounds like KITW? O_0 I'll have to pay more attion to it!
I think it's the drums that sound like KITW
Subseven is a Christian band, and as a Christian myself, I interpret this song to being the internal conflict we experience as believers to follow the flesh (our selfish desires) or follow the Spirit (God speaking to our spirits by The Holy Ghost).
“Should I just let go - Turn my head say “no” Should I go with flow - Try to take control”
God asks us to deny ourselves (just let go, go with the flow of the Spirit leading us)
“Would it be alright if I tried to deny the Ghost in my life, I don’t feel so right (not so right)”
God gives everyone the free choice to follow His way or our own. As believers when we follow our own way, and live after the flesh, the Spirit convicts our hearts. As we might find satisfaction in the flesh for the moment, there is that little voice in our hearts that convicts us, and then after the flesh is satisfied, there is deep sorrow knowing that we sinned and denied the voice of the Holy Ghost leading us the right way and in doing so have added to the stripes and wounds Jesus Experienced dying on the cross for those sins.
“Through darkness or light - You’ll see me though, Instill in me - what I feel in You”
God is faithful to forgive us and does not give up on us. This is a prayer asking God to reinforce His presence and guidance in the singers heart and give him strength to follow God.
These lyrics I scream - falling down on me These visions and dreams - what’s this I see (in me)? Are you inside my bones - 'cause I feel you strong Everywhere I turn, Omipresent Ghost (you are a ghost)
Again, I see this as a prayer with introspection. The Bible teaches us that God is everywhere (Omnipresent), And here I see the song writer saying that wherever he is he feels the presence of God around him.
Emotion who are you?
The chorus I believe is speaking about introspection and asking what voice it is that he is going to listen to.
I love this song.