"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.
Carousels make laps each night
Like drunks we spin until we're sick
Creepy clowns from one horse towns
Can make their livings on a trick
Night covers all our tracks
To break some fragile backs
So we tell some lies and then we hide from light
One night I fell asleep
I woke up on that sunny street
At first I thought I couldn't
But now I see
That the shadows kept me hidden
From the light that calls my name
All the creatures stood above me
Now I'm crawling towards the sun
Candy lips that taste too sweet
Were sour in the summer heat
As the night fell I heard church bells
Say it's time to leave
Out on the town we went to carry out missions
Neither you or I would ever know sunlight
One night I fell asleep
I woke up on that sunny street
At first I thought I couldn't
But now I see
That the shadow's kept me hidden
From the light that calls my name
All the creatures stood above me
Now I'm crawling towards the sun
In the nightlight, we still shine bright (x4)
One night I fell asleep
I woke up on that sunny street
At first I thought I couldn't
But now I see
That the shadow's kept me hidden
From the light that calls my name
All the creatures stood above me
Now I'm crawling towards the sun
Like drunks we spin until we're sick
Creepy clowns from one horse towns
Can make their livings on a trick
Night covers all our tracks
To break some fragile backs
So we tell some lies and then we hide from light
One night I fell asleep
I woke up on that sunny street
At first I thought I couldn't
But now I see
That the shadows kept me hidden
From the light that calls my name
All the creatures stood above me
Now I'm crawling towards the sun
Candy lips that taste too sweet
Were sour in the summer heat
As the night fell I heard church bells
Say it's time to leave
Out on the town we went to carry out missions
Neither you or I would ever know sunlight
One night I fell asleep
I woke up on that sunny street
At first I thought I couldn't
But now I see
That the shadow's kept me hidden
From the light that calls my name
All the creatures stood above me
Now I'm crawling towards the sun
In the nightlight, we still shine bright (x4)
One night I fell asleep
I woke up on that sunny street
At first I thought I couldn't
But now I see
That the shadow's kept me hidden
From the light that calls my name
All the creatures stood above me
Now I'm crawling towards the sun
Lyrics submitted by tjwells
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i love this song more than my mom. okay maybe not more, but probably about the same.
F*ckin awesome song! Up beat madness thats addicting...
i always thought this song was sort of religious maybe? missions & hiding from the light but it still finding you? idk, if you believe in that sorta stuff it makes sense. whatevs, amazing none the less
ridiculously upbeat!!! ahhh. such a good song. bestillmy i think you're right, it's definitely possible that it's religious
The first time I heard THS, I absolutely HATED them. But then I saw them live and they grew on me a LOT. Now I'm singing this song in a showcase next month. I love how upbeat it is, even though that's not the sort of music I usually listen to. I definitely think the song deals a lot with religion, although the vampire comment is fun to think about. :)
pretty good song. i love it
So basically, this song is awesome. I love the piano. Theres never any good piano rock nowadays, but this totally makes the cut...I love it. Nuff said.
Onigiri
im the same i saw them on oncert and i loved them
yeah piano rock rocks!!!
im not sure, but at first maybe the singer was depressed (shadows) but then came to realization life isnt that bad (crawling towards the sun)?
im not sure, some more input?
It's "I woke up on that sunny street."