"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.
La-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la
Here's a song
It reminds me of when we were young
Looking back at all the things we've done
You gotta keep on, keepin' on
Out to sea, it's the only place I honestly
Can get myself some piece of mind
You know it's getting hard to fly
If I'm to fall
Would you be there to applaud?
Or would you hide behind them all?
'Cause if I had to go
In my heart you grow
And that's where you belong
If I'm to fall
Would you be there to applaud?
Or would you hide behind them all?
'Cause if I had to go
In my heart you'll grow
And that's where you belong
If I'm to fall
Would you be there to applaud?
Or would you hide behind them all?
'Cause if I had to go
In my heart you'll grow
And that's where you belong
Guess I'm outta time
I'm outta time
I'm outta time
I'm outta time
I'm outta time
La-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la
Here's a song
It reminds me of when we were young
Looking back at all the things we've done
You gotta keep on, keepin' on
Out to sea, it's the only place I honestly
Can get myself some piece of mind
You know it's getting hard to fly
If I'm to fall
Would you be there to applaud?
Or would you hide behind them all?
'Cause if I had to go
In my heart you grow
And that's where you belong
If I'm to fall
Would you be there to applaud?
Or would you hide behind them all?
'Cause if I had to go
In my heart you'll grow
And that's where you belong
If I'm to fall
Would you be there to applaud?
Or would you hide behind them all?
'Cause if I had to go
In my heart you'll grow
And that's where you belong
Guess I'm outta time
I'm outta time
I'm outta time
I'm outta time
I'm outta time
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Ripper of a song, absolutley brilliant. If i do something and fail at it, will you be there to applaud (applaud me for trying) or would you hide behind them all (pretend that you don't know me). The out of time bit means perhaps hes too late to repair some sorrt of damage he'd done. If it follows a kind of continuing story from the shock of the lightning, maybe he is telling the girl he loves her and asking if she could eer love him back.
I read somewhere that this is written for John Lennon & it took nearly 6 yrs to write. So I’ve been repeating this song over and over, trying to connect the song to John Lennon. And I think I may have found the meaning. <br /> <br /> (1st verse is st8 forward it means exactly what is said. Reminiscing about the past everything from the good & bad & right & wrong. You’ve got to continue life, there’s nothing u can do to go back and change anything)<br /> <br /> (2nd verse he talks about the pressure's of life with regard to his career, the success they had in the mid 90’s and how it’s getting hard to duplicate. And that the only place where he can get away from it all is out to sea.)<br /> <br /> (chorus: ‘If im to fall & im outta time’ could mean he knows he’s getting on and if he was to die, and meet John in the after life…and the people that mean the most to him, applaud in respect at all that he has done. And keep his memory alive. Or would his loved one’s continue life just like each and everyone in the modern world, on the brink of forgetting Liam and all that he has done all the while his heart still holds them dear even in the after life!!!)<br /> <br /> BIGROBBA didnt get shyteeeee, i think im spot on! does anyone else agree???