"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.
My word for dark rhymes
with your word for light and
it's not quite as pretty
as the pictures you painted
but those were just afterthoughts
And all new thieves are after us
I think they're after our heads
Dear lucid, my time is right to...
Dance away, while the bullets fly
You know they come so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
just to light your face
Now bombs light the sky like
Our fireworks just like
The ones that ignited
the first time our eyes met
But this time it's over wars
Your payback, you're wanting more
is gonna make this all over for us
Dear Lucid, your time is right...
Dance away, while the bullets fly
You know they come so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
just to light your face
For me
Dear Lucid, our time is right now
Dance away, while the bullets fly
You know they come so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
just to light your face
Who will fix this impossibility
When it's crushing your throat?
Will you fight for your agenda
or will you fight for air?
Dance away, while the bullets fly
You know they come so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
So we could dance away
where the bullets fly
I know they look so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
just to light your face
For me
Dear Lucid
with your word for light and
it's not quite as pretty
as the pictures you painted
but those were just afterthoughts
And all new thieves are after us
I think they're after our heads
Dear lucid, my time is right to...
Dance away, while the bullets fly
You know they come so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
just to light your face
Now bombs light the sky like
Our fireworks just like
The ones that ignited
the first time our eyes met
But this time it's over wars
Your payback, you're wanting more
is gonna make this all over for us
Dear Lucid, your time is right...
Dance away, while the bullets fly
You know they come so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
just to light your face
For me
Dear Lucid, our time is right now
Dance away, while the bullets fly
You know they come so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
just to light your face
Who will fix this impossibility
When it's crushing your throat?
Will you fight for your agenda
or will you fight for air?
Dance away, while the bullets fly
You know they come so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
So we could dance away
where the bullets fly
I know they look so close
I'll bet they put something in the air tonight
just to light your face
For me
Dear Lucid
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Dear Lucid, Our Time Is Right Now Lyrics as written by Kevin James Clarkson Joseph Daniel Lauzon
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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First off this is my favorite Evans Blue song now. I love it. I think this song is about is about breaking up,
"Now both at the sky like Are fireworks just like The ones that ignited The first time our eyes met But this time it's over wars Your payback, you're wanting more Is gonna make this all over for us"
But everytime the end is in sight and they are fighting,
"Dance away, oh where the bullets fly You know they come so close"
They realise they really do love each other and it makes the guy realise just how lovely she is,
"Oh, but they put something in the air tonight Just to light your face"
I know it's probally way off, but that's what I think.
some minor corrections from the booklet: 1st verse: "But those were just afterthoughts, and all new thieves are after us"
The chorus is: "Dance away while the bullets fly... I'll bet they put something in the air tonight"
Start of the 2nd verse: "Now bombs light the sky like, our fireworks just like..." (which is the start of my favorite line in the song)
The backing part in the third verse: "Who will fix this impossibility, when it's crushing your throat?"
Yeah, I'd agree with Markie that it's about a breakup. A really messy breakup, at that.
That is my favorite line too, it sounds so...any way I put it is understated. Yes most definitely a break-up, most songs are. I don't think Theory of a Dead Man has a single one focused on anything else. Not that I'm complaining, they're an amazing band, just a little one-tracked.
That is my favorite line too, it sounds so...any way I put it is understated. Yes most definitely a break-up, most songs are. I don't think Theory of a Dead Man has a single one focused on anything else. Not that I'm complaining, they're an amazing band, just a little one-tracked.
Honestly, I don't see it as a breakup. Rather a relationship that pretty much everyone, but the couple, doesn't think highly of.
In the first set, he covers that even they don't have it clearly hashed out what their relationship is about or for. But even though everyone is gunning for them to break up, and the bullets (gossip? rumors?) fly, he begins to see her for who she is and while their relationship is gonna end... rather badly, at that... he finally has a clear idea of what he wants out of a relationship.
He's found that lucid moment.