"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.
It wasn't hard to find out
You made it so easy to know
So easy to go away
But the road to home was
Not what I thought it would be
I thought you would come to me
Take me back to the place with
The smile on your face
And the sky with it's clouds so white
Take me back to the place with
The smile on your face
And the sky with it's clouds so white
I know I asked you questions
I asked who you wanted to see
If you wanted to be with me
And you told me answers
But not how they usually sound
Your answers would dance around
Take me back to the place with
The smile on your face
And the sky with it's clouds so white
Take me back to the place with
The smile on your face
And the sky with it's clouds so white
You don't know what you want
But you know what you want me to be
You don't know what you want
But you know what you want me to be
You don't know what you want
But you know what you want me to be
You don't know what you want
But you know what you want me to be
(You don't know what you want)
You made it so easy to know
So easy to go away
But the road to home was
Not what I thought it would be
I thought you would come to me
Take me back to the place with
The smile on your face
And the sky with it's clouds so white
Take me back to the place with
The smile on your face
And the sky with it's clouds so white
I know I asked you questions
I asked who you wanted to see
If you wanted to be with me
And you told me answers
But not how they usually sound
Your answers would dance around
Take me back to the place with
The smile on your face
And the sky with it's clouds so white
Take me back to the place with
The smile on your face
And the sky with it's clouds so white
You don't know what you want
But you know what you want me to be
You don't know what you want
But you know what you want me to be
You don't know what you want
But you know what you want me to be
You don't know what you want
But you know what you want me to be
(You don't know what you want)
Lyrics submitted by two_three_fall
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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I've listened to this song a thousand times in myspace... can't get enough of it
I've listened to this song a thousand times in myspace... can't get enough of it
i love these guys. they should try going big.