"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's no big surprise
We turned out this way
It's in our eyes
Like shallow graves
But we are one with the lover and grace
We don't discriminate at all
For what it's worth
[Chorus: ]
So live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and you're gone
Live young, die fast
Die fast
Young easy life
And untimely death
This doesn't work at all for me
So save your breath
You took your time
And stashed it away
Deep down inside of a cardboard box
Marked "rainy day"
[Chorus: ]
And I feel a miracle
In every breath that I breathe
Won't let this miracle
End in tragedy
I sense a miracle
In all that I see
Won't let this miracle
Slip away from me
Live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and it's gone
Live young, die fast
Live young, die fast
Die fast
Live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and it's gone
Live young, die fast
Die fast
We turned out this way
It's in our eyes
Like shallow graves
But we are one with the lover and grace
We don't discriminate at all
For what it's worth
[Chorus: ]
So live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and you're gone
Live young, die fast
Die fast
Young easy life
And untimely death
This doesn't work at all for me
So save your breath
You took your time
And stashed it away
Deep down inside of a cardboard box
Marked "rainy day"
[Chorus: ]
And I feel a miracle
In every breath that I breathe
Won't let this miracle
End in tragedy
I sense a miracle
In all that I see
Won't let this miracle
Slip away from me
Live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and it's gone
Live young, die fast
Live young, die fast
Die fast
Live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and it's gone
Live young, die fast
Die fast
Lyrics submitted by simon_quine, edited by MatSkippa
Live Young, Die Fast Lyrics as written by Derek Grant Daniel Andriano
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Life is fucking short. You only get one chance, so go for it.
fucking powerful lyrics...one of the more upbeat trio songs ive heard...kind of shit that gets funeral play time
Last year a girl at my school was at a party when some guy drove through everyone with his car, she died. And the next day i looked at her bebo page and it said "Live Young, Die Fast"
This song reminds me of that.
I love this song, its makes me remember to death... Live young die fast
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this song is extremely anthematic. i can just see millions screaming "LIVE YOUNG!!! DIE FAST!!!" fucking amazing..
The lyrics are wrong. This part: It's not big surprise We turned out this way It's in our eyes Like shallow graves But we are one with the lover and grace
Should say this: It's no big suprise we turned out this way It's in our eyes like shallow graves But we are one with the larvae and dirt
Just thought I'd fix it :)
I'm seeing them in february (= brilliant song..
Good song, but the acoustic version is better. Has an extra verse at the end and a better flow. For those who haven't heard it, it does the first 2 verses in a row with no chorus. Then it has the chorus and some of the better lyrics in the song...
Tomorrow night, This tragedy, Will be filed under distant memory, I bit my tongue, And I let it bleed, I've never been big on originality
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