"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 you know what they say
Do you know what they say, what they say about you
Do you know what they do
Do you know what they do when you leave the room
(x2)
Never thought twice about holding your tongue
Once upon a time you were so young
Everywhere you carried around your soul
In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones – knife in your back
Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence – knife in your back
Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back
Do you know what they feel
Do you know what they feel, what they feel for you
Do you know how they play
Do you know how they play, how they play inside you
Do you know what they steal
Do you know what they steal, what they steal from you
Do you know how they prey
Do you know how they prey, how they prey upon you
Never thought twice about holding your tongue
Once upon a time you were so young
Everywhere you carried around your soul
In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones – knife in your back
Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence – knife in your back
Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back
Tell me did you grow after all these years?
Giving up control and buying into fear
Nights slip into mornings and days remain unchanged
but their mighty appetites will not be tamed.
Do you care, Do you care
Do you care what they say
Do you care what they say, what they say about you
Do you care how they prey
Do you care how they prey, how they prey upon you
Upon you
Do you know what they say, what they say about you
Do you know what they do
Do you know what they do when you leave the room
(x2)
Never thought twice about holding your tongue
Once upon a time you were so young
Everywhere you carried around your soul
In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones – knife in your back
Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence – knife in your back
Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back
Do you know what they feel
Do you know what they feel, what they feel for you
Do you know how they play
Do you know how they play, how they play inside you
Do you know what they steal
Do you know what they steal, what they steal from you
Do you know how they prey
Do you know how they prey, how they prey upon you
Never thought twice about holding your tongue
Once upon a time you were so young
Everywhere you carried around your soul
In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones – knife in your back
Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence – knife in your back
Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back
Tell me did you grow after all these years?
Giving up control and buying into fear
Nights slip into mornings and days remain unchanged
but their mighty appetites will not be tamed.
Do you care, Do you care
Do you care what they say
Do you care what they say, what they say about you
Do you care how they prey
Do you care how they prey, how they prey upon you
Upon you
Lyrics submitted by JennnnysCOOL
Do You Know (Knife In Your Back) Lyrics as written by Donn Johnson
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group
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I think it's pretty obvious what this song is about. Abour the false friends that talk on your back. You trusted them but the stabbed a knife in your back.
I think its about how the world is teaching people to stab your friends and everyone in the back, like in the video where the class is being taught to stab eachother in the back... i love this song
plus your lyrics are pretty far off, Do you know what they say, Do you know what they say, what they say about you? Do you know what they do? Do you know what they do, when you leave the room?
Never thought twice about holding your tongue, Once upon a time you were so young. Everywhere you carried around your soul. In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones - knife in your back. Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence - knife in your back. Their attacks inserted doubt, now you're stranded in the cold with a knife in your back.
Do you know what they feel? Do you know what they feel, what they feel for you? Do you know how they play? Do you know how they play, how they play inside you? Do you know what they steal? Do you know what they steal, what they steal from you? Do you know how they prey? Do you know how they prey, how they pray upon you?
Never thought twice about holding your tongue, Once upon a time we were so young. Everywhere you carried around your soul. In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones - knife in your back. Laughing aloud at your expense, fed themselves on innocence - knife in your back. Their attacks inserted doubt, now your stranded in the cold with a knife in your back. Tell me did you grow after all these years? Giving up control and buying into fear, Night slips into morning and days remain unchanged, But their mighty appetites will not be tamed.
Do you care, do you care? Do you care what they say? Do you care what they say, what they say about you? Do you care how they prey? Do you care how they prey, how they prey upon you. Upon you.
some parts are played twice or repeated and some of those parts are sung by somone else while the lead is singing or the background guy is singing :)