"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.
Take me past the outer courts,
Into the holy place,
Past the brazen altar.
Lord I want to see Your face.
Pass me by the crowds of people
And the priests who sing Your praise.
I hunger and thirst for Your righteousness,
But it's only found in one place.
Take me in to the holy of holies.
Take me in by the blood of the lamb.
Take me in to the holy of holies.
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am.
Into the holy place,
Past the brazen altar.
Lord I want to see Your face.
Pass me by the crowds of people
And the priests who sing Your praise.
I hunger and thirst for Your righteousness,
But it's only found in one place.
Take me in to the holy of holies.
Take me in by the blood of the lamb.
Take me in to the holy of holies.
Take the coal, touch my lips, here I am.
Lyrics submitted by Sea_Of_Faces90, edited by pideltajah
Take Me In Lyrics as written by Dave Browning
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simtech113, the reference to the coal touching the lips is from Isaiah 6:5-7
""Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." 6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."
Amen man very well said
Thankyou, I was also wondering what it meant :)
My best friend gave me a cd with this song on it...I recommend you listen to it (if you're in to christian music, that is). It's so awesome!!
I LOVE this song! everytime I listen to it..it brings me into just just PURE worship!
i feel the same way.. Our God is definetly worthy of our Praise, God bless :)
Originally, this was a Petra song, I believe. (You know... Petra; old school Christian Rock... before there ever was Christian Rock. LoL) I love the whole idea of the song, when he says "Take me past the outer courts into the holy place." We don't have to worship God from a distance. We can worship God up close and personal, because He is an up close and personal God. In Hebrews, it says that Jesus isn't a priest that can't be touched by our problems, meaning, in other words, that He's a God that cares and wants to be close to you...
Actually I think it was a Hymn originally.
I'd like to know what take the coal means, what coal? It's true though it just stirs up your passion.
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Mine too. and it's for my sister<br /> plays song<br />
I'd rather dedicate this song to My sister who goes to camp every summer. Take me in, God Take me in
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In the chorus, it's not hunt and thirst, it's hunger and thirst. "The Preists who sing your praise, I hunger and thirst for your righteousness."