"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.
It's so lonely coming down
It's a long long wait around
It's a hollow hollow day
It's a long long long long way, way down.
Fair and feather-white
Lying in false paradise
I found you on your side
Weighed down.
Don't go,
Because you know I will follow
You know if I lose you I'll go mad.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
As the flames wash around me
I only think of you
I only want to save you
But I've done all I can do.
To the end I would defend you
In heaven I'd suspend you
I only want to save you
I only want the truth.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
Don't ask, because you knew this could never last
You were always going too fast
You were always going too fast.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
To the death I will defend you
With my life I will protect you
I know I'm going to save you
I'll do all I can do.
Alone I'll beat the flames down
I will defend your name
I'll descend through the fire
I will carry you home.
I will carry you home.
I will carry you home.
I will carry you home.
It's a long long wait around
It's a hollow hollow day
It's a long long long long way, way down.
Fair and feather-white
Lying in false paradise
I found you on your side
Weighed down.
Don't go,
Because you know I will follow
You know if I lose you I'll go mad.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
As the flames wash around me
I only think of you
I only want to save you
But I've done all I can do.
To the end I would defend you
In heaven I'd suspend you
I only want to save you
I only want the truth.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
Don't ask, because you knew this could never last
You were always going too fast
You were always going too fast.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
It's a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely coming down.
To the death I will defend you
With my life I will protect you
I know I'm going to save you
I'll do all I can do.
Alone I'll beat the flames down
I will defend your name
I'll descend through the fire
I will carry you home.
I will carry you home.
I will carry you home.
I will carry you home.
Lyrics submitted by I-Am-A-Horror >=3
I Only Think of You Lyrics as written by Joseph Spurgeon Faris Badwan
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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oh yeah i see what you mean.
i love the lyrics to this song, they are so beautiful (: one of my favourites of them album.