"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.
Swoon this is the same old blood rush with a new touch
I am safe, quaint and eloquent
But my bottom lip along with the top one too
Is chapped and it's all thanks to you
We all wet our lips to prepare for the kiss
But it never came
And we all wet our lips to prepare for the kiss
It was but a game
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
(The bone, the bone)
You trained these lips when they were champs
And now they're itchin' for a comeback
So come back
It's a shame that your claim to fame
Hangs on someone else's name
So come back
Such a task and this is such a blast
And such a task
And such a task and this is such a blast
And all that jazz
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
You have a dangerous face and illegal taste
And that strap is fallen on that shoulder blade
Be patient
Behave
You have a dangerous face and illegal taste
And that strap is fallen on that shoulder blade
Be patient
Behave
You have a dangerous face and illegal taste
And that strap is fallen on that shoulder blade
Be patient
Behave
You trained these lips when they were champs
And now they're itchin' for a comeback
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
I am safe, quaint and eloquent
But my bottom lip along with the top one too
Is chapped and it's all thanks to you
We all wet our lips to prepare for the kiss
But it never came
And we all wet our lips to prepare for the kiss
It was but a game
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
(The bone, the bone)
You trained these lips when they were champs
And now they're itchin' for a comeback
So come back
It's a shame that your claim to fame
Hangs on someone else's name
So come back
Such a task and this is such a blast
And such a task
And such a task and this is such a blast
And all that jazz
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
You have a dangerous face and illegal taste
And that strap is fallen on that shoulder blade
Be patient
Behave
You have a dangerous face and illegal taste
And that strap is fallen on that shoulder blade
Be patient
Behave
You have a dangerous face and illegal taste
And that strap is fallen on that shoulder blade
Be patient
Behave
You trained these lips when they were champs
And now they're itchin' for a comeback
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
You have a moan all of your own
And I can feel it down to the bone
Lyrics submitted by fedorov1fan, edited by Materialgwarlll(づ￣ ³￣)づ
Moan Lyrics as written by Jeff Czum Fernando Cimato
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Hahaha sounds like some horny boy to me :) Just a guess
listened the whole CD through - every song up until this one, i thought teasing to please would still be my favorite. well this definately atleast ties it, probably the catchiest track on the album for sure (especially the bridge, really upbeat).
but i think its about a girl who is/was out of his league.
"same old blood rush with a new touch" same lust, sparked by a new girl, but he enjoys the challenge none the less? i can also think of a not so pleasent sexual innuindo for that opener ha.. but this cd is full of em so it probably is.
regardless - great track
I'm asuming CIWWAF got the title for the album from this song or vice versa
Shaant posted "But my bottom lip along with the top one too Is chapped and it's all thanks to you (We all wet our lips to prepare for the kiss But it never came)" in a journal entry once & I loved it. I had no idea it was actually gonna be in a song. Pleasant surprise.
this song is interesting i like it but i think its funny how they're singing about a girls moan . . . . maybe thats just me.
to me.. i think it is about how he has liked girls yea and he gets a blood rush from them.. but then he meets this one girl that just makes it feel different.. like adds something to his bloodrush. then maybe they had planned to kiss and he was nervous and licked his lips so much that they became chapped because of not getting to kiss her because she was leading him on [it was but a game]
the you have a moan all of your own maybe means close to the bloodrush with a new touch thing.. maybe saying that all the other girls have the same old same old but she has her own uneiwue and amazing moan that makes his knees weak [down to the bone]
she trained his lips to not be so suseptable to being chapped because he was always use to kissing whatever girl he wanted but then she didnt kiss him so she trained him to not always get it right off. but now they still want to kiss her and so she needs to come back into his life so he can. [so come back]
and her 'claim to fame' would be if she doesnt kiss him then she will get a reputation for maybe not knowing how to kiss since she didnt kiss him at all or if she does kiss him he can boast her up as a good kisser. [its a shame]
its such a task cause he has known her for awhile and yet he still hasnt got her to kiss him but he finds the task to be a blast trying to acomplish what he has waited so long for. [and all that jazz]
then her face when she looks at him is kind of daring and dangerous to him making it hard for him to not just kiss her then and there and then her 'illegal taste' is illegal because she is not aloud to taste it then. and then the strap falling off her shoulder blade is like her dangerous face. it just makes him want to kiss her more. like maybe a turn on. but he has to be paitent and behave and not do anything too crazy on a spur of a moment.
i dont know really. thats just my guess.. sorry for typos. its like 3 30 in the morning. but are you buying into any of this?
Brandy Marie
of course.. the typos. eh. sorry.
uneiwue-uneique acomplish-accomplish
You still spelt unique wrong:)
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'Be patient Behave' --Hm. I completely 100% agree with L4LuvNotLoser. I think that the Be Patient, Behave part has to do with Shaant. He's telling himself 'Oh okay, so the kiss hasn't happened. I have to be patient with this girl. I must behave.'
i love this song defanitly one of thier bests