"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.
Put up your barricades
There's money to be made
Continue your charade
Money to be made
What you're asking for means the world to me
You draw close as you whisper precisely
Precisely
Your safety is assured,
Behind those eggshell walls
Of yours
You're safety is assured,
Behind those eggshell walls
Of yours
Friends and family fly by on wings of faith
Faithlessly I don't recognize a face
Not a single face
Take this sorry soul
Made enough of a mess on my own
On my own
Put up your barricades
There's money to be made
There's money to be made
Continue your charade
Money to be made
What you're asking for means the world to me
You draw close as you whisper precisely
Precisely
Your safety is assured,
Behind those eggshell walls
Of yours
You're safety is assured,
Behind those eggshell walls
Of yours
Friends and family fly by on wings of faith
Faithlessly I don't recognize a face
Not a single face
Take this sorry soul
Made enough of a mess on my own
On my own
Put up your barricades
There's money to be made
Lyrics submitted by stoneystoney
Money to Be Made Lyrics as written by Irwin Sparkes Alan Sharland
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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I thought it was about prostitution.... I mean, there are not a lot of jobs where you have to "put up your barricades"..
Everytime I hear this song I just imagine the meaning of the song to be something like this:
"Put up your barricades, there`s money to be made" To me, this line might be about prostitution and how someone has to really "put up a barricade" in order to deal with this job
"What you�re asking for means the world to me You draw close as you whisper: �precisely� "
Not so sure about this line.... maybe he has to keep a secret or something...? "means the world to me" is mostly used in a very positive way, like a wedding proposal or if someone donates a kidney to you or something^^, but I just can't figure out how to interpret this positivly
"Your safety assured behind those egg-shell walls of yours" Egg-shell walls are not very sturdy, they break easily... so I think this line is meant as a critisicm... the person in question is not safe at all and might act rather stupidly/naiv because she thinks herself to be safe
"Friends and family glide by on wings of faith" I thought this was about religion... ("faith").. maybe the person in question comes from a religious environment? "Glide on" might mean they don't see what is going on and are blindly "gliding on"
"Faithlessly I don�t recognise a face Not a single face" Maybe the "speaker" knows something (someone he knows getting in to prostitution to make money???) and does not understand the world anymore and thus doesn't "recognise a face".. or perhaps he is so dissapointed or surprised by the actions of the person in question, that he doesn't recognise her "inner" face anymore ?
"Take this sorry soul I�ve made enough of a mess on my own On my own" He doesn't want to be bothered anymore but still is? lol i don't know :-)
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