"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.
We woke up as men, but tonight
Tonight we'll sleep as killers
As we break the cryptic morning
With a bullet and a prayer
The steel never seemed so cold and agile
And a life never seemed less vital and fragile
With a heart that's beating
Louder than my own
I watch a girl they call Kezia
I watch a woman that I know
My hope and my own future, blindfolded (to atone)
To atone for a sin I didn't care for
But a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children
That burned my smiles and cigarettes
And no one ever
Said that hope would be so beautiful
And no one ever
Said I'd have to pull the trigger, on her
I can't even still her trembling hands
That were locked up by the dutiful
And the obligated
Five soldiers forever sedated
With the "No one's responsible"
Pathological drama of our
Social justice dribble, dribble, dribble
Her tiny steps tell lies (Resurrect a static lifetime)
About the choice I have to make (Starve to death my own mistakes)
Pull the screaming trigger
And watch your carcass bleed me dry
Or drop the gun and try to shake away
The blindfold from your eyes?
Drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun
Drop the gun!
Sin I didn't care for
But a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children
And burned my smiles and cigarettes
Sin I didn't care for
But a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children
That burned my smiles and cigarettes
Tonight we'll sleep as killers
As we break the cryptic morning
With a bullet and a prayer
The steel never seemed so cold and agile
And a life never seemed less vital and fragile
With a heart that's beating
Louder than my own
I watch a girl they call Kezia
I watch a woman that I know
My hope and my own future, blindfolded (to atone)
To atone for a sin I didn't care for
But a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children
That burned my smiles and cigarettes
And no one ever
Said that hope would be so beautiful
And no one ever
Said I'd have to pull the trigger, on her
I can't even still her trembling hands
That were locked up by the dutiful
And the obligated
Five soldiers forever sedated
With the "No one's responsible"
Pathological drama of our
Social justice dribble, dribble, dribble
Her tiny steps tell lies (Resurrect a static lifetime)
About the choice I have to make (Starve to death my own mistakes)
Pull the screaming trigger
And watch your carcass bleed me dry
Or drop the gun and try to shake away
The blindfold from your eyes?
Drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun
Drop the gun!
Sin I didn't care for
But a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children
And burned my smiles and cigarettes
Sin I didn't care for
But a sin that paid my debts
A sin that fed my children
That burned my smiles and cigarettes
Lyrics submitted by Inoue versus Date
Blindfolds Aside Lyrics as written by Luke Hoskin Arif Mirabdolbaghi
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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xthroatoysterx "To atone for a sin I didn't care for, but a sin that paid my debts A sin that fed my children and burned my smiles and cigarettes uh..i dont thinkk ur supposed to literally think that the sin paid actual debts. more like, a debt to society. i think that this song has to do with "soilders" l;ike the american army. ive noticed amany of their songs deal with social justice issues ( fear and loathing in laramie..) and im thinking that thin one might have to do with the american armies exuctions goiing on in the middle east.
no shit surlock did the song saying so much things about soldiers give you that idea? and i dont think people actually took that sin part real literally if they did they are oretty retarted
Well i think that this song means that the president is sending the troops to fight a war that is killing so many soldiers. and that the persident is putting more money into the war and everything happening in the u.s now and you are paying taxes just to go to the war and all the shit thats going on