"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 comb the crowd and pick you out
My mouth moves too fast for you to figure it out
It starts eyes closed to fingers crossed
To "I swear, I say"
To "I swear, I say"
To hands between legs, to "whatever it takes"
To drinks at the club, to the bar
To the keys to your car
To hotel stairs, to the emergency exit door
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Between the pages of the Bible in the drawer
"What did it ever do for me?", I say
It never calls me when I'm down
Love never wanted me, but I took it, anyway
Put your ear to the speaker and choose love or sympathy
But never both, love never wanted me
"I hoped you choked and crashed your car"
Hey "tear catcher", that's all that you are
And ever were from the start
I swear, I say
I swear, I say
To hands between legs, to "whatever it takes"
To drinks at the club, to the bar
To the keys to your car
To hotel stairs, to the emergency exit door
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Between the pages of the Bible in the drawer
"What did it ever do for me?", I say
It never calls me when I'm down
Love never wanted me, but I took it, anyway
Put your ear to the speaker and choose love or sympathy
But never both, no
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Through the keyhole as I watched you dress
Kiss and tell
Loose lips sink ships
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Through the keyhole as I watched you dress
Kiss and tell
Loose lips sink ships
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Through the keyholes as I watched you dress
Kiss and tell
Loose lips sink ships
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Between the pages of the Bible in the drawer
"What did it ever do for me?", I say
My mouth moves too fast for you to figure it out
It starts eyes closed to fingers crossed
To "I swear, I say"
To "I swear, I say"
To hands between legs, to "whatever it takes"
To drinks at the club, to the bar
To the keys to your car
To hotel stairs, to the emergency exit door
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Between the pages of the Bible in the drawer
"What did it ever do for me?", I say
It never calls me when I'm down
Love never wanted me, but I took it, anyway
Put your ear to the speaker and choose love or sympathy
But never both, love never wanted me
"I hoped you choked and crashed your car"
Hey "tear catcher", that's all that you are
And ever were from the start
I swear, I say
I swear, I say
To hands between legs, to "whatever it takes"
To drinks at the club, to the bar
To the keys to your car
To hotel stairs, to the emergency exit door
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Between the pages of the Bible in the drawer
"What did it ever do for me?", I say
It never calls me when I'm down
Love never wanted me, but I took it, anyway
Put your ear to the speaker and choose love or sympathy
But never both, no
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Through the keyhole as I watched you dress
Kiss and tell
Loose lips sink ships
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Through the keyhole as I watched you dress
Kiss and tell
Loose lips sink ships
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Through the keyholes as I watched you dress
Kiss and tell
Loose lips sink ships
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
To the "love", I left my conscience pressed
Between the pages of the Bible in the drawer
"What did it ever do for me?", I say
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208
Xo Lyrics as written by Joseph Mark Trohman Andrew John Hurley
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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To the “love” I left my conscience pressed Through the keyhole I watched you dress Kiss and tell (Loose lips sink ships)
whoa, those lines are beyond beautiful... i really think they mean that he was aware of her cheating on him and he witnessed it. he saw her kissing him and then heard about it. (the "loose lips sink ships" part is really from WWII. but in this song, im taking it as an emo line..) loose lips is her either kissing him or her telling everyone about it and the sinking ships is the drowing of their relationship.
yea, well that's just my take on this song.
i definately love this song with a passion.
God Bless!