"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.
We've got forever
Slipping through our hands
We've got more time
To never understand
Falling footsteps
Weighing heavy on me
Behind darkness
Beneath candles
Whispers waltz
Around our dreams
The shortest distance
Between two points
Is a line
From me to you
Feet turning black
Is this the path we must walk?
No turning back
Wish I could just hear you talk
Can something like this be pulled
From under our feet?
Leaving our skin
And burning coals to meet
Tell me now
The shortest distance
Between two points
Is a line
From me to you
Slipping through our hands
We've got more time
To never understand
Falling footsteps
Weighing heavy on me
Behind darkness
Beneath candles
Whispers waltz
Around our dreams
The shortest distance
Between two points
Is a line
From me to you
Feet turning black
Is this the path we must walk?
No turning back
Wish I could just hear you talk
Can something like this be pulled
From under our feet?
Leaving our skin
And burning coals to meet
Tell me now
The shortest distance
Between two points
Is a line
From me to you
Lyrics submitted by PureSophist, edited by heskey3331, laurenmini123
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agreed
I am 99% sure it is this:
The shortest distance Between two points Is a lie From me to you
But looking online, everyone says it is how it is in the current lyrics... am I wrong?
@heskey3331 Changed it, because I am 99.9% sure of it now. It was "is the line" instead of "is a lie".
@heskey3331 Pretty sure it goes lie, then line... then in the last chorus it goes line, lie. Not positive on that last part but I'm pretty sure about the first chorus. I really think it would be cooler if it were "lie" because of the obvious play on words, but if you listen carefully (and painfully-loudly) you can hear a faint -N- sound. I think if someone were to officially ask GM what the lyrics are they would say either "lie," or "Why didn't we think of that, that would have been so much cooler." Great song either way.
Yeah, I think you're right about the lyrics heskey, but the other way makes perfect sense. Still...
@kevinjky It would make sense looking at the song that way, but it is definitely line. <br /> Because this song is also about the sacred geometry pattern called the Vesica Piscis, and it is made with 2 equally important points. So they're the shortest distance between those 2 points and everything else is based off of those 2 points.
Might just be the romantic in me, but I totally thought she was saying "The shortest distance between two points is LOVE, from me to you."