"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.
I've learnt a lot about you
In turn much about me too
I traveled across the sea
I wept for you
Emotions run deep
Between us friend
The time will come
For us again
We're tired, we're tired now
This ship almost ran a ground
We'll lie and rest now
I'll dream of you
Emotions run deep
Between good friends
But I do believe
In us again
I've heard, I've heard it said
That love, real love has no end
A cup overflowing now
I will believe, I must believe
In turn much about me too
I traveled across the sea
I wept for you
Emotions run deep
Between us friend
The time will come
For us again
We're tired, we're tired now
This ship almost ran a ground
We'll lie and rest now
I'll dream of you
Emotions run deep
Between good friends
But I do believe
In us again
I've heard, I've heard it said
That love, real love has no end
A cup overflowing now
I will believe, I must believe
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For You Lyrics as written by Cranny Blasko
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I am in love with this song.
this is such a stunning song. it's so different for sarah, & a wonderful quirky opener to the album.
i almost always listen to this song before i fall asleep, it's like a sweet calming lullaby for me. for me, it has a sense of heightened reality about it, & i think that's what i like about it. it's a really dreamy, romantic, flowing song. it lets me float away and dream of someone special.. :)
This song is about lost love. Whe you know so much about each other and come so far together. You have come so far it feels like "travelling across the sea." And when that is suddenly over, we mourn it's loss.
Singing in hope, convincing herself that because emotions run so deep that time has to come around for the couple again, that it cannot just end so definately.
People get tired in relationships. Not of the love, but of the relationship. I think this is a really beautiful way of saying that the relationship has ended. Saying "We'll lie and rest now, I'll dream of you." Its almost like a eautifully tragic sense of denial.
Once again, she is repeating that emotions run deep between between people like them, people with such a connection. She is having faith. Convincing herself that she believes that they will be together again.
Reflecting on what people have told her about real, about true love never ending. The cup is her overflowing emotions. There is so much to deal with that all she can do is convince herself to believe. The repetition at the end of the song is a really lovely way of affirming that. This song is really quite quaint and hopeful.