"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.
Sketch of your faces I still don't know you, you aren't permanent. You want all of our moments stolen, blind alleys and hallways to basements. How are you gonna hide till you disappear?
Because nothing and nowhere is golden.
Apartments are cages I still don't know what is permanent. Maybe all my possesions were precious. Truth is, all my possesions, I somehow lost them. Been travelling so light, when we're floating it seems nothing and nowhere is golden.
Some say we're lost in space, some say we're falling off the page
Some say our life is insane but it isn't insane on paper
Playgrounds are graveyards and all of our scars are permanent. There's no replacement for places. I'll always love you, you're mine. Numb is the new high, all memories die out 'till nothing and nowhere is golden.
Some say we always only wanna get off, some say our hands are much too soft.
Some say our life is insane but it isn't insane on paper. Some say our hair is in our eyes, some say we're out of our little minds. Some say our life is insane but it isn't insane to have to ask.
Because nothing and nowhere is golden.
Apartments are cages I still don't know what is permanent. Maybe all my possesions were precious. Truth is, all my possesions, I somehow lost them. Been travelling so light, when we're floating it seems nothing and nowhere is golden.
Some say we're lost in space, some say we're falling off the page
Some say our life is insane but it isn't insane on paper
Playgrounds are graveyards and all of our scars are permanent. There's no replacement for places. I'll always love you, you're mine. Numb is the new high, all memories die out 'till nothing and nowhere is golden.
Some say we always only wanna get off, some say our hands are much too soft.
Some say our life is insane but it isn't insane on paper. Some say our hair is in our eyes, some say we're out of our little minds. Some say our life is insane but it isn't insane to have to ask.
Lyrics submitted by tinylittlewords
Nothing & Nowhere Lyrics as written by Emily Haines
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Sketch of your faces I still don't know, you aren't permanent, permanent You want all of our moments stolen blind alleys and hallways to basements How are you gonna hide 'til you disappear? 'Cause nothing and nowhere is golden
Apartments are cages, I still don't know what is permanent, permanent Maybe all my possessions were precious Truth is, all my possessions I somehow lost them Been traveling so light, when we're floating by seems nothing and nowhere is golden
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