"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.
On a cold day, nothing's gonna stop us
On a cold day, you can see forever
On a cold day, nothing's gonna stop us
On a cold day, you can run through metal
In a graveyard, we'll be making babies
In a graveyard, it's raining up in heaven
Silent cold now, nothing's gonna stop us
Silent cold now, silent, silent cold
A man can be happy with the weather
As long as it doesn't snow
To run and hide
Wintertime is a razor blade the devil made
It's the price we pay for the summertime
On a cold day, you can see forever
On a cold day, nothing's gonna stop us
On a cold day, you can run through metal
In a graveyard, we'll be making babies
In a graveyard, it's raining up in heaven
Silent cold now, nothing's gonna stop us
Silent cold now, silent, silent cold
A man can be happy with the weather
As long as it doesn't snow
To run and hide
Wintertime is a razor blade the devil made
It's the price we pay for the summertime
Lyrics submitted by rooneymusic
Wait for the Wintertime Lyrics as written by Christopher E Keating Anand Mathew Wilder
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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On a cold day, nothing's gunna stop us On a cold day, you can see forever On a cold day, nothings gunna stop us On a cold day, you can run through metal
In a graveyard, we'll be making babies In a graveyard, it's raining up in heaven
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Solid gold now, nothing's gunna stop us Solid gold now, it's solid solid gold
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lyrics for the studio version, not the live ones.
Wintertime is a razor-blade that the devil made It's the price we pay for the summertime.
love these lyrics
These are definitely not the lyrics.<br /> <br /> Im not sure what they are, but to me it sounds more like:<br /> <br /> Wintertime is a ball and chain that we oughtta break<br /> Its the price we pay for the summertime
"On a cold day", not "Hodocotay"
Hodocotay??? lol what does that mean? def "on a cold day" tho that should be a new word.
and there are two versions ive heard, one recorded and one live.
the record says wintertime is a ball and chain of the old and grey its the price we pay for the summertime
the live version says wintertime is a razorblade that the devil made its the price we pay for the summertime
other than that i cant make it out, too distorted. def amazing song tho.
It sounds like "silent cold" instead of "solid gold"
I kind of really wanted this song to say “On the cocaine nothing’s gonna stop us”, instead of ‘hodocotay’? I thought wintertime was alluding to the drug, and how “there is a price to pay”. So, what Leakeg and recording DR said about razor and ball may not be way off…