"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.
creepin round the bend,
death illuminates the lines we live within
like a black sunrise
reality takes shape and form and fills the sky
some questions will fade
these will remain:
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
lookin around to see
everybody racing towards the end with me
maybe slit my wrists
and let love wrap itself around my fingertips
some questions will fade
these will remain:
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
do you, do you
feel this holes in your life?
these holes…
I know you lay tired
in pools of tears
don't fade out,
it's almost here
the final hour
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
creepin round the bend
death illuminates the lines we live within
death illuminates the lines we live within
like a black sunrise
reality takes shape and form and fills the sky
some questions will fade
these will remain:
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
lookin around to see
everybody racing towards the end with me
maybe slit my wrists
and let love wrap itself around my fingertips
some questions will fade
these will remain:
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
do you, do you
feel this holes in your life?
these holes…
I know you lay tired
in pools of tears
don't fade out,
it's almost here
the final hour
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
are you, are you
gonna fall behind?
do you, do you
feel these holes in your life?
creepin round the bend
death illuminates the lines we live within
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This is such a deep song. It's about death and that it's something that can't be escaped. "Some questions fade these will remain". The idea of suicide seems to be littered in this song as well. "Maybe slit my wrist".
No matter how much good you did in your life, all your lies and bad things you did will come to light at the moment of death. There's a lot more to this song than that...
Get the EP-Live at Workplay. Awesome!
Corrections to these lyrics... I believe it is, "Do you? Do you feel these holes in your life?" and "Maybe slit my wrists, Or let love wrap itself around my fingertips". aaand: "Death illuminates our lives we live within"
This is such a amazing song. "Don’t fade out, it’s almost here". It's giving hope to the people that feel like there's no escaping their situation. Beautiful.
after listening to the words way too many times, this is what i figured on the lyrics. pretty much an echo of what 'thisholidaystacee' said with some small differences...
"Death illuminates the lines we live within."
"Do you? Do you feel these holes in your life?"
"Maybe slit my wrists, And let love wrap itself around my fingertips."
this last one's a bit trickier because i can't be completely sure he even officially intended to add a word between "my wrists..." and "...let love"---if he did, however, the version of this song from 'the live EP' sounds much more like "And".........between "Or" and "And"........."AND" makes more sense.
they may seem like really picky stuff, but the difference in 1 or 2 words can change the meaning of a song. i.e.--"Or" is a choice. "And" is a follow up.
i now i didn't comment on meaning, but it's easy to get the wrong meaning with the wrong words.