"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.
Ever since the day that I was made I've been deciding the end
And I was made of wood and stone that won't diminish or bend
So when the heavy hand of death is here to take me away
I'll be the solid grip of time, forever holding my stay
Nobody ever made a force that took a beating like me
I call the earth and every scum to come and try to fight me
Because when I made the choice to live beyond the dirt that we tread
I felt the curse of mortal limit fall before it was said
When this season ends
One final heart-break
And blinding lights will guide our way
Free us our blind state
They will call us by our name
Undying
Tearing through these days I find the tolerance to strive and push on
I know what lies beyond this life for me is already won
No one can take away the blood that covers over my fall
Without the blood of perfect life I know I'm nothing at all
So now I reign forever hallowed in eternity's hand
No man can shake me from the everlasting ground that I stand
When this season ends
One final heart-break
And blinding lights will guide our way
Free us our blind state
They will call us by our name
Undying
We are the ones who will still remain when all is laid to waste
We are the ones who, when angels cry, will see them face to face
We are the ones
When this season ends
One final heart-break
And blinding lights will guide our way
Free us our blind state
They will call us by our name
Undying
And I was made of wood and stone that won't diminish or bend
So when the heavy hand of death is here to take me away
I'll be the solid grip of time, forever holding my stay
Nobody ever made a force that took a beating like me
I call the earth and every scum to come and try to fight me
Because when I made the choice to live beyond the dirt that we tread
I felt the curse of mortal limit fall before it was said
When this season ends
One final heart-break
And blinding lights will guide our way
Free us our blind state
They will call us by our name
Undying
Tearing through these days I find the tolerance to strive and push on
I know what lies beyond this life for me is already won
No one can take away the blood that covers over my fall
Without the blood of perfect life I know I'm nothing at all
So now I reign forever hallowed in eternity's hand
No man can shake me from the everlasting ground that I stand
When this season ends
One final heart-break
And blinding lights will guide our way
Free us our blind state
They will call us by our name
Undying
We are the ones who will still remain when all is laid to waste
We are the ones who, when angels cry, will see them face to face
We are the ones
When this season ends
One final heart-break
And blinding lights will guide our way
Free us our blind state
They will call us by our name
Undying
Lyrics submitted by WakeToLife
Undying Lyrics as written by Ryan Clark Don Clark
Lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
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"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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What does everyone interpret the "One final heart-break" to be? I guess I've been thinking it was the moment you dropped everything, let go of everything earthly that was your focus, (which is quite hard!) and started living for God.
Also before reading the lyrics I always thought "Free us our blind state" was "free our apostate". I guess it really doesn't change it all that much... ha
awesome song
@pnew If people are intellectually honest with themselves they've truly let in the thought that there isn't a god. Staring that doubt in the face it can be frightening and even overwhelming, the thought that there may not be a loving god waiting for us on the other side of their final breath. Your " one final heart-break" is the one where your heart stops, at death. Even if you believe in god, you are still blind to what lies beyond that final breath. I don't care how strong your faith is, everyone has doubts. No one knows for sure what is beyond that final breath until it leaves their body. In the meantime, this life is FULL of heart breaks, whether you've "let go of everything earthly" or not. No one is immune to having their hearts broken over and over and over again. It doesn't stop just because you "let go and let god". Life will kick you in the face regardless. And proclaiming belief/faith in god is like putting on a giant bulls eye.<br /> <br /> This song is about overcoming all of that and holding to faith in spite of it, right through your final heart break.