"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.
It's nice when the heart
The heart is beating faster
Feeling alive when there is wanting
Always the same
I jump too quickly
Be still my soul
It's love so serious
The more we think
The less we know
It's love mysterious
Holding tight
When we should let go
Now that this love
Has overcome me
Now that this fire
Is burning bright
All of these words
Seem just beyond my reasoning
Be still my soul
It's love so serious
The more we think
The less we know
It's love mysterious
Holding tight
When we should let go
Be still my soul
Just let it go
The heart is beating faster
Feeling alive when there is wanting
Always the same
I jump too quickly
Be still my soul
It's love so serious
The more we think
The less we know
It's love mysterious
Holding tight
When we should let go
Now that this love
Has overcome me
Now that this fire
Is burning bright
All of these words
Seem just beyond my reasoning
Be still my soul
It's love so serious
The more we think
The less we know
It's love mysterious
Holding tight
When we should let go
Be still my soul
Just let it go
Lyrics submitted by xDominiquex
Be Still Lyrics as written by Finn Bjarnson Ryan Raddon
Lyrics © Ultra Tunes
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I agree that this song is speaking of the rush of love... but rather how it clouds the mind, and often, our better judgement (always the same i jump too quickly)... our mind's awareness of this phenomenon, yet we are inherently compelled to fall anyway (denoted by second verse). In some manner... I think "be still my soul" is a form of plea, the mind pleading with the heart. In essence, the song is really speaking of the duplicity of love in our human nature... mind and soul aren't always in agreement. I concur with AeonMikey on this one.