"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.
Show us off to all your friends
We're the trophy boys
From here to with and when
We break and break your dreams up
Keeping us a secret
We're the back pocket believers
We're the locals who went poster
Call it treason while you can
I'm just a face for every picture
A smile for your scrapbooks
And a story to be told
(It tears and tears me up)
But I'm loving every second
So commemorate this hour
As the last I spend
Regretting what I have
Boys, raise your glasses
Girls, shake those, go, go, go
We're the party, you're the people
Let's make this night a classic
We play, you move
Come on, let me hear you
We're the party, you're the people
And this is how we, this is how we do
The curtain's rising
I'm forgetting where I've been
I watch the lights go up
On a star without his scream
Set it off and say it back
Direction's keeping me on track
But I'll admit I do it all for the attention
I'm just a face for every picture
A smile for your scrapbooks
And a story to be told
(It tears and tears me up)
But I'm loving every second
So commemorate this hour
As the last I spend
Regretting what I have
Boys, raise your glasses
Girls, shake those, go, go, go
We're the party, you're the people
Let's make this night a classic
We play, you move
Come on, let me hear you
We're the party, you're the people
And this is how we, this is how we do
We're the trophy boys
From here to with and when
We break and break your dreams up
Keeping us a secret
We're the back pocket believers
We're the locals who went poster
Call it treason while you can
I'm just a face for every picture
A smile for your scrapbooks
And a story to be told
(It tears and tears me up)
But I'm loving every second
So commemorate this hour
As the last I spend
Regretting what I have
Boys, raise your glasses
Girls, shake those, go, go, go
We're the party, you're the people
Let's make this night a classic
We play, you move
Come on, let me hear you
We're the party, you're the people
And this is how we, this is how we do
The curtain's rising
I'm forgetting where I've been
I watch the lights go up
On a star without his scream
Set it off and say it back
Direction's keeping me on track
But I'll admit I do it all for the attention
I'm just a face for every picture
A smile for your scrapbooks
And a story to be told
(It tears and tears me up)
But I'm loving every second
So commemorate this hour
As the last I spend
Regretting what I have
Boys, raise your glasses
Girls, shake those, go, go, go
We're the party, you're the people
Let's make this night a classic
We play, you move
Come on, let me hear you
We're the party, you're the people
And this is how we, this is how we do
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
This Is How We Do Lyrics as written by Jack Bassam Barakat Alexander William Gaskarth
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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yeah, its pretty much just about them becoming big.
"I'm just a face for every picture, a smile for your scrapbooks, and a story to be told"
I think thats alex writing about how all these girls think hes so hot and how they come up to him at their shows and are wanting to take a picture with him but they don't know (or care) that he actually is a real person with a real story.
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we're the locals who went postal atleast thats what i think =]
i watch the lights go up on a star without his screen =]
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i have the cd from the cd release the booklet says "from here to if and when we break and break your dreams up we're the back pocket believers"
they said on the gunz show that they were basically being cocky on purpose. gotta love em.
"get up get up" "set it off and sing it back" "we break and break your dreams of"
ha i listened to the Gunz show too! it was pretty sweet :) the background yelling after "girls shake those-" it's (Get Up, Get Up, Get up!) not that it REALLY matters but..yeah :D