"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.
Open your eyes,
We're here,
Are you ok?
I'd give all I have just to get you to stay
For so many years in my dreams things were changing,
But always your face was the same
Love you to death [x4]
When you opened up what you said, it was so sad
That no one wold notice if you ran away
Then your mascara, it ran
Don't you vanish tonight
I'm alive just to say:
Love you to death [x4]
And they say,
That we're living in a movie world
So they say,
But does the hero really get the girl in the end?
Love you to death
(Does the hero get the girl?) [x4]
In the end.
We're here,
Are you ok?
I'd give all I have just to get you to stay
For so many years in my dreams things were changing,
But always your face was the same
Love you to death [x4]
When you opened up what you said, it was so sad
That no one wold notice if you ran away
Then your mascara, it ran
Don't you vanish tonight
I'm alive just to say:
Love you to death [x4]
And they say,
That we're living in a movie world
So they say,
But does the hero really get the girl in the end?
Love you to death
(Does the hero get the girl?) [x4]
In the end.
Lyrics submitted by marquicerise
Love You to Death Lyrics as written by Kenneth Downing Glenn Raymond Tipton
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING
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"For so many years in my dreams, things were changing, But always your face was the same"
epic two lines.
According to Mat, this song is about loving a girl so much you kidnap her.
actually, i read that he had a dream about a girl singing and it was this really poppy song and he wrote all of it he remembered down, but in the end they revised it a lot
amazing song nonetheless mat is an AMAZING writer
Two comments? How? Why??
The song is so beautiful. Surely, it means more to people than two lousy comments.
Anyway, I think the meaning is pretty obvious.
I totally agree with dying2reachgreen.
Seriously, Kill Hannah is SUCH a good band, and this is SUCH a good song. SOOO good... sooo addicting.
I've read/heard both in the same interview :P
On fuse he said it was about kidnapping etc, but he mentions the dream, and on the album commentary he talks soley about the dream and about pickslides.
To ME, this song is about trying to convince someone that you love them and will not hurt them, despite what everyone else may have done.
MSI672, thats what i got from the song too.
But whatever, i think it matters alot more that the song means something good to someone personally, even if it wasn't intended for that meaning..
(if that makes any sense?) >.>
I first told someone i loved them when they were feeling like they wre the shittest person on the planet and that nobody cared about them, i flet like it was the right time to let them know they meant EVERYTHING to me, even if they felt like they were nothing. I'm guessing that this song is about the same kind of situation, or thats what i relate it to anyways.
felt* that should have said, sorry. Also, they dont feel the same way, so does the hero get the girl or in my case guy in the end is true. Even though he is telling her she still isnt his maybe.