"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.
広がる闇の中 交わし合った
革命の契り
誰にも邪魔させるワケにはいかないから
果実が告げた未来
夢 理想に変える
誰もが望んだ「終幕」を
広がる闇の中 交わし合った
革命の契り
誰にも邪魔させるワケにはいかない
いつか僕が見せてあげる
光り輝く世界を
革命の契り
誰にも邪魔させるワケにはいかないから
果実が告げた未来
夢 理想に変える
誰もが望んだ「終幕」を
広がる闇の中 交わし合った
革命の契り
誰にも邪魔させるワケにはいかない
いつか僕が見せてあげる
光り輝く世界を
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
I have to follow up woth what foreverago and ~Kira X Kira~ said, it totally fits the story. Every part of the song has something to do with Deathnote. The part "Yume risou ni kaeru (dreams, turned into ideals)" really relates with Light because his dream of changing the world eventually not only becomes his ideal, but also his obsession. Then the line "Doushite Boku wa kowareta Messiah, dare mo ga nozonda owari wo (Why? Am I a broken Messiah, everyone wished for a finale) shows Light's confusement as to why everyone is turning against him. Dosen't everyone want a "finale" so that all the crime will end? Dosen't everyone wish for a paradise? Then why are people trying to killl him if he's trying to show them, "a shining sky?"