"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.
Spinning round you weigh me down
Gravel hands of green and brown
Spinning round you weigh me down
Gravel hands of green and brown
Spinning round you weigh me down
Gravel hands of green and brown
Spinning round you weigh me down
Gravel hands of green and brown
In your cells both red and white
On the sun that gives us light
In your cells both white and red
From the mouth our kids get fed
In your cells both red and white (spinning round you weigh me down)
On the sun that gives us light (gravel hands of green and brown)
In your cells both white and red
From the mouth our kids get fed
In your cells both red and white
On the sun that gives us light (way down on the ground)
In your cells both white and red (big cells that you can hear)
From the mouth
(Almost makes us disappear)
Gravel hands of green and brown
Spinning round you weigh me down
Gravel hands of green and brown
Spinning round you weigh me down
Gravel hands of green and brown
Spinning round you weigh me down
Gravel hands of green and brown
In your cells both red and white
On the sun that gives us light
In your cells both white and red
From the mouth our kids get fed
In your cells both red and white (spinning round you weigh me down)
On the sun that gives us light (gravel hands of green and brown)
In your cells both white and red
From the mouth our kids get fed
In your cells both red and white
On the sun that gives us light (way down on the ground)
In your cells both white and red (big cells that you can hear)
From the mouth
(Almost makes us disappear)
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Every Time She Turns Round It's Her Birthday Lyrics as written by Daniel Snaith
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For clarification: the lyrics in the fourth stanza overlap, thus the parenthetical notation. Enjoy!
I like the last line. and I dont think these lyrics mean anything.
appreciate the contribution CBA.
The tune jams, about 3:15 into it, it kicks out this awesome beat that drives a fury. the relentless beat, the driving horn, the surging organ chords, ..and those last seconds? wonderful!
I'm not exactly sure what the lyrics are about, but I'm pretty sure the song is about the Earth. The title is a restatement of the fact that one rotation of the Earth occurs in a year. Also the line spinning round you weigh me down is likely a reference to gravity.