"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.
Why, do I talk so?
And it's your fault
You're the only one that breaks away
Your fault now
When we had fun, we had fun, we had fun
Everyday will become night and end without a change
We'll try
still strong in chains
Urging the mind
To speak until weakness has been
disarmed
You, I'll be back for you
We'll try, I'll find you
These midnight masquerades
Are still strong in their chains
It's the motion in our blood
That has since ran out of love
And it's so hard
When we've wasted all our youth on you
Wait for the same moon
We were smoking on a cold day's afternoon
In the same fire we'll soon untie
When it's over the scenes fall in two
When it's over the sun will be back for you
We'll soon, we will soon untie
And it's your fault
You're the only one that breaks away
Your fault now
When we had fun, we had fun, we had fun
Everyday will become night and end without a change
We'll try
still strong in chains
Urging the mind
To speak until weakness has been
disarmed
You, I'll be back for you
We'll try, I'll find you
These midnight masquerades
Are still strong in their chains
It's the motion in our blood
That has since ran out of love
And it's so hard
When we've wasted all our youth on you
Wait for the same moon
We were smoking on a cold day's afternoon
In the same fire we'll soon untie
When it's over the scenes fall in two
When it's over the sun will be back for you
We'll soon, we will soon untie
Lyrics submitted by Infynite
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what??!?!?!?! no comments on this song?!?!?! well i think this song is about a relationship where the girl hesitates a lot. they had lots of good times but they werent enough to keep their relationship stable.
"Everyday will become night and end without a change We'll try still strong in chains"
means that even though theyre trying, no progress is being made because something is preventing it.
"These midnight masquerades Are still strong in their chains"
means that they cant show their true selves.
"It's the motion in our blood That has since ran out of love"
theyre just too different and theyre kinda stopping loving each other
"Wait for the same moon"
could possibly mean that the moon is ever-changing because of its phases, and theyre both waiting to see eye-to-eye
and yeah the whole "We'll soon, we will soon untie" meaning theyre breaking up soon
i hate when people make this mistake! the song is pierce the veil by before today not before today by pierce the veil. this is a song from vic and mikeys old band, before today.
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