"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.
So Strange I Remember You in protest of a prayer,
And falling back from seas we fear to sail
I swear I saw the shooter, gold deep and double dare,
Postmortem warnings seem inclined to fail,
Feigning an apology.
Those words they never left your lips,
Those 5 years in Bermuda slide by like the lights of passing ships,
So Strange that I Remember You,
Kneeling deep in Nietzsche's lies
My throat was an open grave I drank your stained glass eyes
And they taste like dead cathedrals
That are crumbling beneath a weight ten thousand jaded tourists
Who've traded in their hearts and hands for
Disposable cameras, set to document to decay
Set to capture just enough of life to catalog the things we throw away
(breathing the fumes of our machines)
We've lost our way-Dustin sings
(breathing through television dreams)
If we could only see us now
If we could only see us now
The words of the dead ring in our ears
But its only a lie
The voice in your head brings you to tears
But you don't know why
The words of the dead ring in our ears
But its only a lie
The voice in your head brings you to tears
But its only a lie,
Yes its only a lie, isn't it?
And falling back from seas we fear to sail
I swear I saw the shooter, gold deep and double dare,
Postmortem warnings seem inclined to fail,
Feigning an apology.
Those words they never left your lips,
Those 5 years in Bermuda slide by like the lights of passing ships,
So Strange that I Remember You,
Kneeling deep in Nietzsche's lies
My throat was an open grave I drank your stained glass eyes
And they taste like dead cathedrals
That are crumbling beneath a weight ten thousand jaded tourists
Who've traded in their hearts and hands for
Disposable cameras, set to document to decay
Set to capture just enough of life to catalog the things we throw away
(breathing the fumes of our machines)
We've lost our way-Dustin sings
(breathing through television dreams)
If we could only see us now
If we could only see us now
The words of the dead ring in our ears
But its only a lie
The voice in your head brings you to tears
But you don't know why
The words of the dead ring in our ears
But its only a lie
The voice in your head brings you to tears
But its only a lie,
Yes its only a lie, isn't it?
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So Strange I Remember You Lyrics as written by Edward Carrington Breckenridge Dustin Michael Kensrue
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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wow, rarely can a band redo a song and have it be so reminiscient of the orginial, yet different enough to hold your attention. This ver. is just as great as the original, i'd put it up on a level with Incubus' remake of a Certain Shade of Green into a funk version, which i also highly recommend, this CD overall is pretty kick ass, the live versions of thier songs i think add a new dimension to the lyrics, he sounds a little more personally attached to them
wow. i like this one better than the original. the emotion in his voice when he sings this is almost unbearable. i love it so much.
This version of the song compliments the lyrics MUCH better. The lyrics themselves are a true work of art, but things in this version like the organ bring the image of the 'dead cathedrals' into mind. I still never really figured out what the like about "five years in Bermuda" meant.
at the beginning of the song he deals with being lost and bermuda triangle is associated with mystery and being lost. i.e. he spent five years being lost. <br /> <br /> that's just my take. this song paints an amazing picture of how the church now is mostly regarded as something of the past that people just take pictures of and it doesn't really mean much anymore. i am a christian so don't take that the wrong way please. ha
This version blows away the original in every way.