"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.
Rosaries
Left under the mattress of the memories
Who could bear the witness
As you slip into oblivion,
Use it like a weapon
Am I left to bleed
Waiting for the moment when you've had your fun
A loaded gun
Take away your broken misery,
I can't wait to erase your memory
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me
Everything I gave is wasted,
I'm the one who suffocated
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me
Can't resist poisoning the message
Just a narcissist trapped inside the wreckage
And the sympathy I had is gone
Deadened by the ceremony
Drama queen,
Stand behind your empire
As your kingdom falls, all because
Take away your broken misery,
I can't wait to erase your memory
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me.
Everything I gave is wasted,
I'm the one who suffocated
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me
Your rescue, my undo
I'm not the one to save you
I'm empty completely
I'm drowning in your shadow
Take away your broken misery,
I can't wait to erase your memory
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me.
Everything I gave is wasted,
I'm the one who suffocated
This love, this love is gonna be the end of
Cant chase away your ghost,
Inside it only grows
Nothing left but misery
This will be the end of me
All the shit that you created,
All the scars you celebrated
Couldn't take away your pain
Couldn't resurrect your gain
This love will be the end of me,
This love will be the end.
Left under the mattress of the memories
Who could bear the witness
As you slip into oblivion,
Use it like a weapon
Am I left to bleed
Waiting for the moment when you've had your fun
A loaded gun
Take away your broken misery,
I can't wait to erase your memory
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me
Everything I gave is wasted,
I'm the one who suffocated
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me
Can't resist poisoning the message
Just a narcissist trapped inside the wreckage
And the sympathy I had is gone
Deadened by the ceremony
Drama queen,
Stand behind your empire
As your kingdom falls, all because
Take away your broken misery,
I can't wait to erase your memory
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me.
Everything I gave is wasted,
I'm the one who suffocated
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me
Your rescue, my undo
I'm not the one to save you
I'm empty completely
I'm drowning in your shadow
Take away your broken misery,
I can't wait to erase your memory
This love, this love is gonna be the end of me.
Everything I gave is wasted,
I'm the one who suffocated
This love, this love is gonna be the end of
Cant chase away your ghost,
Inside it only grows
Nothing left but misery
This will be the end of me
All the shit that you created,
All the scars you celebrated
Couldn't take away your pain
Couldn't resurrect your gain
This love will be the end of me,
This love will be the end.
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Son Şansın - Şarkı Sözleri
Hayalperest
Hayalperest
This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
I can't believe nobody has commented yet...I love this song!!
Also, as far as lyrics are concerned, I believe it's "I can't wait to erase your memory" instead of "I dont want to waste your memory"
Also...for an interpretation on the lyrics, my impression is that it's about him getting out of a past relationship. Sounds like the person was pretty much no good and basically didn't care or kind of played him. Now he wants nothing to do with them and wants to "erase their memory" as he has to live with what they did to him.
Looks like a girl who plays with his heart and mind. Then, "Suffocated" because of this, he decides to leave her...
...or at least that what he dreams (I watched a part of Apocalyptica's video where Eicca Toppinen throws a girl directly on the floor, like a dream of revenge).
The video of this song will be officially released on Apocalyptica.com next Friday, July the 2nd.
I guess he just feels like he is getting nowhere in the relationship. Great song.
I have experienced what the singer is going through. The person he's singing about is a narcissist and a drama queen who pulls him into her world. She suffocates him by taking away his very being, thus he walks in her shadow. She uses him only for the purpose of satisfying her insatiable need for attention. She has reflected her inner emptiness onto him to leave him feeling empty as well. This broken woman, for whom he once had sympathy, is driving him away; for she is trapped inside the wreckage of her deep misery and can offer him nothing in return for his love. She stands behind her mask of narcissism as her world falls all around her. She has no empathy for him or anybody else, thus she drives all who love her away. There is nothing the man can do to save her, for all he's tried to do has been wasted and he has no choice but to leave her...otherwise "it will be the end" for him.
Perfectly interpreted "rocknow"....i agree completely, there's a U2 line that goes "A victim or a vampire, depends on who is around" which summarises the song and your intepretation.
I have also experienced loving and giving to a person that was only capable of taking and populating her narcisstic world without giving back. And you always believe that you just need to give a little more for her to turn the corner, but her world never fills, it's a bottomless pit that eventually swallows all those around her. The singer is almost there, but is about break free "I'm not the one to save you...", which is the most difficult thing for a man to say to a woman...but really understandable once you've gone thru this...
Hey all, don't post much, but love this song and just wanted say that the line is actually "I can't always erase your memory" instead of "I can't wait to erase your memory." Slight difference, kind of hard to tell but if you watch Gavin's lips in the music video it becomes quite clear. I think it's more poetic and it rolls off the tongue better to boot. Much love, y'all!