"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.
Tuesday came and I feigned happy
I'm so lonely here
This thing between my lungs is
Making me so tired
It's bleeding me
You know me and how I hate this
We've said enough for now
Although it's been three hours
We haven't spoke at all
Oh, inside this empty cabinet
Nothing shines in here
On the edge of night
We look down on our streets and houses
You felt sick, so I drove back
And if we go back to stars
We won't need any money
We won't need these poor hearts
This crowd incites my riots
I'll try to calm them down
Criminals compound my weakness
I'm barely hanging on
They're bleeding me
Oh, why can't I feel it?
Nothing hurts down here
On the edge of night
We look down on our streets and houses
You felt sick so I drove back
And if we go back to stars
We won't need any money
We won't need these poor hearts
On the edge of night
We look down on our streets and houses
You felt sick so I drove back
And if we go back to stars
We won't need any money
We won't need these poor hearts
I'm so lonely here
This thing between my lungs is
Making me so tired
It's bleeding me
You know me and how I hate this
We've said enough for now
Although it's been three hours
We haven't spoke at all
Oh, inside this empty cabinet
Nothing shines in here
On the edge of night
We look down on our streets and houses
You felt sick, so I drove back
And if we go back to stars
We won't need any money
We won't need these poor hearts
This crowd incites my riots
I'll try to calm them down
Criminals compound my weakness
I'm barely hanging on
They're bleeding me
Oh, why can't I feel it?
Nothing hurts down here
On the edge of night
We look down on our streets and houses
You felt sick so I drove back
And if we go back to stars
We won't need any money
We won't need these poor hearts
On the edge of night
We look down on our streets and houses
You felt sick so I drove back
And if we go back to stars
We won't need any money
We won't need these poor hearts
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This is beautiful.
this song is done really well, and just is really pleasing to the ear, I wonder why this band isnt more popular.
I love the line "and if we go back to stars we won't need any money, we won't need these poor hearts"
I'm a little confused on the meaning of this song, especially the lines :
on the edge of night we look down on our streets and houses you felt sick so i drove back
I mean alright, going back to simplicity, but how do these lines follow up on that concept?
Even the next three lines are a little confusing...