"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.
No I'm fine. I've lived so far my life in vain. Ah! I've lived so far my life I'm tired. The only power carve a flank. Don't tell me I'm tempted. Sign of steady . Don't! Stop pulse of lightshades I'm tired. You'll find ways in your brain/tired. Argh. You'll tell somebody what I am. One fake beauty said sorry I'm like you.
Just to say you should whisper. How candid I will be. And together we'll lift up. I'm waiting for love and I'll lie. I'm teaching some lesson life to me. How else to cut the red thing out and lets cut the red out together, inside I feel you.
ARGHHHH!
I will fake it and fall stand tall. You're acting tired find your body laying down. I win, you can die.
Lay down I broke your knees. Sit down cuz of curtesies our eyes lay inside. Its why you gave up time, though that time has broken me. Set sight that you might see the insides of why you gave up time. And you now you have fucking broke me, and now you have fucking broke me, and now you have fucking broke me, and now you have ... broken me.
arghhh I, I don't know, broken knees and heres countdown inside fine you stole Guide your eyes. Stand hes waiting Go and countdown.
Die .(I) Love just for her. I love just for her. I love just for her. I love just for her. . I love just for her.
This heart is stitched around our love mistake. And in the silence i know it was my own wake. This heart is stitched around our love mistake. And in the silence i know it was my awake .This heart is stitched around our lovely love mistake. It was just silence i know it was my waken. This heart is stitched around our love mistake and in your silence i knew it was smart not weak.T his heart is stitched around our love mistake It was your silence i knew it was your lovely"
Just to say you should whisper. How candid I will be. And together we'll lift up. I'm waiting for love and I'll lie. I'm teaching some lesson life to me. How else to cut the red thing out and lets cut the red out together, inside I feel you.
ARGHHHH!
I will fake it and fall stand tall. You're acting tired find your body laying down. I win, you can die.
Lay down I broke your knees. Sit down cuz of curtesies our eyes lay inside. Its why you gave up time, though that time has broken me. Set sight that you might see the insides of why you gave up time. And you now you have fucking broke me, and now you have fucking broke me, and now you have fucking broke me, and now you have ... broken me.
arghhh I, I don't know, broken knees and heres countdown inside fine you stole Guide your eyes. Stand hes waiting Go and countdown.
Die .(I) Love just for her. I love just for her. I love just for her. I love just for her. . I love just for her.
This heart is stitched around our love mistake. And in the silence i know it was my own wake. This heart is stitched around our love mistake. And in the silence i know it was my awake .This heart is stitched around our lovely love mistake. It was just silence i know it was my waken. This heart is stitched around our love mistake and in your silence i knew it was smart not weak.T his heart is stitched around our love mistake It was your silence i knew it was your lovely"
Lyrics submitted by Nevuk
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Great version of a great song,
Most of this is very tentative, I did it by ear. Some of it that seems like its easy to get is not at all. This took a long while to do, I have the times saved at which I wasn't sure, but I didn't leave them in this due to SM's policy on lyrics.
Good to see that someone actually cares for the SM lyrics policy. :D Anyway... interesting lyrics. Where is this from?
Its from their Document #7, very good release, has the best production of any Pg. 99 release. Its not lo-fi, in other words. It has 5 songs, 2 of which are over 8 minutes (one of them being this one), this is another one of their songs where the city of caterpillar singer sings, this is one of the only songs I've ever heard him forcefully scream on (Its also a very good song to learn screaming from, as it has a lengthy, detailed normal - screaming voice part).
glad you tried i have this record too, the lyrics are scattered everywhere
Ahhh, I've been looking for the lyrics to this forever. And though these aren't official, it's still a start. This is my personal favorite song by pg.99...it's so emotive, epic and intense, all at the same time. And with over 10 minutes of music, not once does it get dull or repetitive. I bought the record after hearing this song, solely to get the lyrics for it, but the booklet that came with the record was a whole page of writings that are very pg.99-lyric-esque but none of it actually matched up with any of the songs on the record, or on any other pg.99 release for that matter.
As for these lyrics, they seem pretty accurate give or take a few lines. I always thought the end was something like, "This heart is stitched around our lone mistake, and in your silence I knew that it was not awake."
But who knows for certain?
I hear "This heart is stitched around a lonely stake, and in your silence I knew it was my wake."
wow i just now saw that someone gave this a shot... awesome. one of my alltime favorite pg99 songs. document #7 is the jam
The last repeating line in this song is so haunting and such a perfect closer...but I still don't know exactly what the line really is. I spent like 30 minutes analyzing the last 80 seconds of this song trying to figure it out and this is what I hear...he repeats the line five times, each time a little differently...I also marked at what point in the song he says each line (minutes and seconds)
First (9:25 to 9:40)
This heart is stitched around a lonely stake, and in your silence I knew it was my wake
Second (9:40 to 9:55)
This heart is stitched around a lonely stake, and in your silence I knew...that it was not awake
Third (9:56 to 10:11)
This heart is stitched around a lone...lone-ly stake...it was your silence...I knew it was my wa-a-ke
Fourth (10:11 to 10:26)
This heart is stitched around a lonely stake...and in your silence I knew it was my wake
Fifth (10:26 to 10:41)
This heart is stitched around a lonely stake...it was your silence...I knew it was my wake
The only part i KNOW is right in all of them is "this heart is stitched around..." & "...your silence I knew it was..."
As for the other parts, it's GOT to be one of these:
(the first half) ...stitched around a lonely stake ...stitched around our lone mistake ...stitched around our love mistake
(the second half) ...I knew it was my wake ...I knew it was not awake ...I knew it was awake
So, it's almost certainly some combination of those. I probably over analyzed this way too much...if only there was a lyrics sheet for Document #7...