"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.
I am here on this platform and something may suck me down.
If I step off this platform, I'll be cut through clean.
If I had eyes in back of me, I shudder to think what I would see.
My faith brought me no further, faith got me nowhere.
My faith brought me no further, fate got me here.
So, I'll jump.
I am still on this platform, pondering my next move.
It is all down to direction. I could be clean and through.
When better days have gone, you fall off the merry-go-round.
When better days have gone, I fall off.
I'm falling down.
So I'll jump.
If I step off this platform, I'll be cut through clean.
If I had eyes in back of me, I shudder to think what I would see.
My faith brought me no further, faith got me nowhere.
My faith brought me no further, fate got me here.
So, I'll jump.
I am still on this platform, pondering my next move.
It is all down to direction. I could be clean and through.
When better days have gone, you fall off the merry-go-round.
When better days have gone, I fall off.
I'm falling down.
So I'll jump.
Lyrics submitted by quietlyhere
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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She is standing on a train platform, and something inside is telling her to step off, to be "cut through clean" by the wheels of a train.
She is transfixed by what is below her - death - and shudders to think what she would see if she looked behind her - at life. She might also mean that she is afraid of her past.
Having "faith", being "strong" - it did nothing for her. She believes she was always "fated" to end up at this point - at the brink of death. So why not jump to her death and get it done with?
"I could be clean and through" - she could be "clean" and pure in death rather than facing the mess of life, and "through" - over, finished, done with it.
When she has a bad day, she falls off the "merry-go-round" - the smiling-faced routines and cycles of "healthy" society.
She's already falling towards death, so she'll make the final decision and jump.
Quietlyhere that's a wonderful description of the song i agree on it +1
I love this band the lyrics are so strong and deep