"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 know where you went but I don't know how you got there
I know where you went but I don't know how you got there
Silver tongue hill where you talk up what I' d play down
I would speak up but I wouldn't know what to say
To say
To say
Lucidity, come back to me
Put all five senses back to where they're meant to be
Oh it's hard to tell, it breaks down
There is a will, there is a way
Wondering around like spare time never knew it
I might suck fizzle or I might just float away
And we'll go running off tonight
High above, where we won't even need to recah the sky, my love
Oh there will be a change in the air, nobody will be anybody else
Lucidity, come back to me
Put all five senses back to where they're meant to be
Oh where we'll go, tip toe, tread boldly right down
To the lair, ah ah ah
I know where you went but I don't know how you got there
Silver tongue hill where you talk up what I' d play down
I would speak up but I wouldn't know what to say
To say
To say
Lucidity, come back to me
Put all five senses back to where they're meant to be
Oh it's hard to tell, it breaks down
There is a will, there is a way
Wondering around like spare time never knew it
I might suck fizzle or I might just float away
And we'll go running off tonight
High above, where we won't even need to recah the sky, my love
Oh there will be a change in the air, nobody will be anybody else
Lucidity, come back to me
Put all five senses back to where they're meant to be
Oh where we'll go, tip toe, tread boldly right down
To the lair, ah ah ah
Lyrics submitted by pavlova, edited by TysonRedwig, ThisEvilRoss
Lucidity Lyrics as written by Kevin Parker
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In my interpretation, this song has no linear meaning. But it's certainly about not feeling quite lucid, but not necessarily from drugs. It's about not being sure of things. But also the beauty and freedom of that ( And we'll go running off\tonight, high above, where we\won't even need to reach the \sky, my love.) But what's really interesting is not these themes, which have been widely used in other lyrics, but the way Kevin writes it. Very original, very colorful.