"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 been down on my luck
Been down too long this time
I’ve drank down to the bottom
Until I found myself there too
And the taste of defeat
Has never been so sweet
So I pour another glass
And fail again and again
I’ve been down
And I’ve been higher than six towers
I’ve asked the higher powers
If they could just spare a drink
Did they answer my cries?
I was a bit preoccupied
I’ve toasted them, boasted to them
That they had met their match
But as long as there is whiskey in the world
We can drink away the heartache
And drink away the girls
But we fall in love, but we never touch
As long as there is whiskey in the world
I have loved
And I’ve lost all that they gave me
They all try and save me
But I’m seeing this thing through
And these feelings of remorse
They leave me no recourse
So I poured another glass
Fail again and again
But as long as there is whiskey in the world
We can drink away the heartache
And drink away the girls
But we fall in love, but we never touch
As long as there is whiskey in the world
I don’t want to be saved
Ah, ah, ah, ah
As long as there is whiskey in the world
As long as there is whiskey in the world
As there is whiskey
As there is whiskey
As there is whiskey in the world
Been down too long this time
I’ve drank down to the bottom
Until I found myself there too
And the taste of defeat
Has never been so sweet
So I pour another glass
And fail again and again
I’ve been down
And I’ve been higher than six towers
I’ve asked the higher powers
If they could just spare a drink
Did they answer my cries?
I was a bit preoccupied
I’ve toasted them, boasted to them
That they had met their match
But as long as there is whiskey in the world
We can drink away the heartache
And drink away the girls
But we fall in love, but we never touch
As long as there is whiskey in the world
I have loved
And I’ve lost all that they gave me
They all try and save me
But I’m seeing this thing through
And these feelings of remorse
They leave me no recourse
So I poured another glass
Fail again and again
But as long as there is whiskey in the world
We can drink away the heartache
And drink away the girls
But we fall in love, but we never touch
As long as there is whiskey in the world
I don’t want to be saved
Ah, ah, ah, ah
As long as there is whiskey in the world
As long as there is whiskey in the world
As there is whiskey
As there is whiskey
As there is whiskey in the world
Lyrics submitted by a_melancholy_soul, edited by DiesisKey, Mellow_Harsher
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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
"Some and now none of you"
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This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Page
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Aside from the annoying boxes, these lyrics are wrong. Drink away the harvest? Really? Listen to the song.
I been down on my luck Been down, too long this time, I’ve drank onto the bottom Till I found myself there too And the taste of defeat, has never been so sweet So I pour another glass and fail again. And again.
I’ve been down, and I’ve been higher than six towers I’ve asked the higher powers if they could just spare a drink Did they answer my cries? I was a bit preoccupied. I’ve toasted them, boasted to them, that they had met their match
But as long as there is whiskey in the world We can drink away the hearth ache And drink away the girls But we fall in love, but we never touch As long as there is whiskey in the world.
I have loved, and I’ve lost all that they gave me They all try and save me But I’m seeing this thing through And these feelings of remorse They leave me no recourse So I poured another glass, fail again and again
But as long as there is whiskey in the world We can drink away the hearth ache And drink away the girls But we fall in love, but we never touch As long as there is whiskey in the world.
I don’t want to be saved
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah
as long as there is whiskey in the world As long as there is whiskey in the world. as there is whiskey as there is whiskey as there is whiskey in the world
Hey, those were pretty close, and the boxes are there cause I had to upload the lyrics for almost the whole album from my iTouch using the wifi in the parking lot at work at like one in the morning. As for the 'harvest' and 'amber' lines, while they're wrong, they do sound similar, and they tied into the whiskey theme, which is why I assumed them. So thanks for the right lyrics, but please don't be a butthead, cause we're all Murder-By-Deathians here. With that, I'll say those boxes ARE about as annoying as sin.
This song came out two years too late... Would've been perfect to listen to back in college partying with all my friends.
Still is perfect to listen to, don't get me wrong though.
he mentions "Higher Power" and how you can drink away problems. so it might be a song about AA or rehab or some shit