"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.
These are the veins of the way that we love
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us.
Things aren't the way that we-
Love as if you didn't know at all, (I'd like to bear the heart of us)
Never once, never knew, painted glass(?) with no love (Wish I could answer you)
So uptight and desperate for attention
We're all lost and begging to be found
With every word you say, you lead everyone on
These are the veins of the way that we love
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us.
You've stopped before the singer says a word
I need to take it out on you (really take it out, really give it all)
As hard as I can and let you, let you have it all
Do I make you?
Don't start, Don't start, shaking again
She can make the salt taste like sugar on her hands but
If love is a way out, then please let me in
don't start, darlin
don't you turn my nightmares into dreams again.
Uptight and desperate for attention.
We're all lost and begging to be found.
With every word you say, you lead everyone on
These are the veins of the way that we love
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us.
We all did what we had to do
We all did what we had to do
We all did what we had to do
We all did what we, what we had to do
What we had to do
(...)
These are the veins of the way that we love
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us. (we only did what we had to do)
These are the veins of the way that we love
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us.
Things aren't the way that we-
Love as if you didn't know at all, (I'd like to bear the heart of us)
Never once, never knew, painted glass(?) with no love (Wish I could answer you)
So uptight and desperate for attention
We're all lost and begging to be found
With every word you say, you lead everyone on
These are the veins of the way that we love
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us.
You've stopped before the singer says a word
I need to take it out on you (really take it out, really give it all)
As hard as I can and let you, let you have it all
Do I make you?
Don't start, Don't start, shaking again
She can make the salt taste like sugar on her hands but
If love is a way out, then please let me in
don't start, darlin
don't you turn my nightmares into dreams again.
Uptight and desperate for attention.
We're all lost and begging to be found.
With every word you say, you lead everyone on
These are the veins of the way that we love
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us.
We all did what we had to do
We all did what we had to do
We all did what we had to do
We all did what we, what we had to do
What we had to do
(...)
These are the veins of the way that we love
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us. (we only did what we had to do)
These are the veins of the way that we love
These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us
Lyrics submitted by BoyWithACoin
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
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Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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There's a story called "Hills like white elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. It's really just a brief conversation between a man and a woman and its never stated what they're speaking about. However, you can infer that the woman is pregnant and the man wants her to have an abortion. I'm not sure how to perceive these lyrics in context with the story. Does anyone have any thoughts?
yeah i dont know how the song and story relate. i thought of that too, btw.
I actually just read that story, and I think this song relates but instead of havingthe decision,they have chosen the abortion. but either way, the song is amazing.
I think that instead of it being about an abortion and giving up a baby, it's giving up love and your heart. Like one of the lyrics says, "I'd like to bear the heart of us". Well you bear a baby...bear a heart...<br /> <br /> And then the chorus says, "These are the hearts of lonely people ripped in front of us."<br /> <br /> <br /> I don't know, it's just a thought.
I agree with sincerelykristen it does seem as if its more giving up love then a child.