"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.
Turns up when you're outside
'Cause inside you're in night time
Everywhere is frightenin'
There's something you are needin' to find
The pressure's grassin' you down
That ragin' monster pullin' you around
It wants to rip our skins apart
Tear out the strings connected to our hearts
Our hearts, our hearts
Evil glander eyelids
Groovy wears us on her mouth
Tremblin' when we see her
Run and hide, she's comin' around to
Tear out the strings
Tear out the strings
Tear out the strings
Connected to our hearts
Tear out the strings
Tear out the strings
Tear out the strings
Connected to our hearts
Our hearts
(Tear out the strings)
(Tear out the strings)
(Tear out the strings)
Our hearts
(Tear out the strings)
(Tear out the strings)
(Tear out the strings)
Our hearts
You wait of yourself
That crowded you in
Dark clouds come around
In hope of a home
Your body grew wider
The moon would slow down
Delusions of dying
Make sense in your head
The hair grew in thick
Your tongue's reached in
The venom fought hard
To poison our hearts
Delusions of dying
Make sense in your head
But you're better than that
You're better than that
Tear out, tear out
The web remain protects us
They're both the muscle shelter
But it's our blood that mends us
It's our blood that mends us
The web remain protects us
They're both the muscle shelter
But it's our blood that mends us
It's our blood that mends us
'Cause inside you're in night time
Everywhere is frightenin'
There's something you are needin' to find
The pressure's grassin' you down
That ragin' monster pullin' you around
It wants to rip our skins apart
Tear out the strings connected to our hearts
Our hearts, our hearts
Evil glander eyelids
Groovy wears us on her mouth
Tremblin' when we see her
Run and hide, she's comin' around to
Tear out the strings
Tear out the strings
Tear out the strings
Connected to our hearts
Tear out the strings
Tear out the strings
Tear out the strings
Connected to our hearts
Our hearts
(Tear out the strings)
(Tear out the strings)
(Tear out the strings)
Our hearts
(Tear out the strings)
(Tear out the strings)
(Tear out the strings)
Our hearts
You wait of yourself
That crowded you in
Dark clouds come around
In hope of a home
Your body grew wider
The moon would slow down
Delusions of dying
Make sense in your head
The hair grew in thick
Your tongue's reached in
The venom fought hard
To poison our hearts
Delusions of dying
Make sense in your head
But you're better than that
You're better than that
Tear out, tear out
The web remain protects us
They're both the muscle shelter
But it's our blood that mends us
It's our blood that mends us
The web remain protects us
They're both the muscle shelter
But it's our blood that mends us
It's our blood that mends us
Lyrics submitted by Jennex, edited by LucasCorso, notled
Monster Lyrics as written by Charles Burchill Brian Mcgee
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is a cool and clever song. At its most basic level, it's about a girl dealing with her period (monster and blood as metaphors) -- which in turn serves as a second-level metaphor for growing up. In the twilight between childhood and adulthood, you feel like your real self is trapped inside your changing body. (Dressed up in your outsides). Your body is doing weird things, and you struggle with a sense of losing who you are in who you are becoming. It's scary. (Inside you're in nighttime, everywhere is frightening).
The connected hearts are those of the child and the adult. Growing up threatens to rip the connection apart. The protaganist wants to flee it (run and hide, she's coming around), but obviously can't escape it. She struggles with it (the venom fought hard to poison our hearts), becoming depressed (delusions of dying). Ultimately, though, she resolves it -- realizing that growing up isn't as bad a thing as she feared. It just a necessary part of our life's cycle. The monster that scared her so much is ultimately seen in a different, and positive, light. Blood, which is normally associated with death and injury, is seen as renewing life force instead of as destructive force (It's our blood that mends us). This obviously ties up the menstruation angle. The final stanza is hopeful and upbeat.
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