"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.
Remind me I'm golden
The fortress above the sun
Why don't you spend nowhere with me?
Follow the river and the path of the ones trying the names
Of the shore
Forever I can't find
Struggling in a world of this fine
Or this life
I don't want it to be
I'm not in to live
Fly into the distance
Disappear for a while
I don't know the sence of this
But it is too late feeling alive
Destruction for the power
Let me take control (Eliminance)
This is nothing more
Something now you'll find again (Deliver us)
Can't live the worse, you say?
Does it really matter?
I'd give the world to you if you just
Fly into the distance
Disappear for a while
I can't make sense of this
Are we there to take a ride?
Fly into the distance
Disappear for a while
I can't make sense of this
But we're in to take a ride
The fortress above the sun
Why don't you spend nowhere with me?
Follow the river and the path of the ones trying the names
Of the shore
Forever I can't find
Struggling in a world of this fine
Or this life
I don't want it to be
I'm not in to live
Fly into the distance
Disappear for a while
I don't know the sence of this
But it is too late feeling alive
Destruction for the power
Let me take control (Eliminance)
This is nothing more
Something now you'll find again (Deliver us)
Can't live the worse, you say?
Does it really matter?
I'd give the world to you if you just
Fly into the distance
Disappear for a while
I can't make sense of this
Are we there to take a ride?
Fly into the distance
Disappear for a while
I can't make sense of this
But we're in to take a ride
Lyrics submitted by Hyprea, edited by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Deliver Us Lyrics as written by Bjorn Gelotte Anders Friden
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Since music was created for worshipping the one who loves you and whom you love, which should be the Same, a song is interpreted through the resident(s) of the soul, mind, spirit. That said I don't know anything about the band or what the song meant to the writer, but is mine.
Remind me I'm golden (Remind me I belong to you God) The fortress above the sun (You are my shield and fortress in the heaven) Why don't you spend nowhere with me (I can't feel you, see you, hear you I am in nonexistence without you - why can't you be why aren't you here with me in this place) Follow the river and the path ____ (stuff here) (Directions to find him) On the shore (Not in the living water, but on its shore.
Forever I can't find (I don't feel saved, and try to) Struggling in a world undefined (neither whole one way or the other. Struggling through confusion) Oh decide, how you want it to be (He knows Gods will is perfect, make it so - so the struggle will end I'm not (here to...?) (?)
Fly into the distance (He takes flight from the world to get relief) Disappear for a while (Hide from the evil after him for relief) I can't make sense of this (Doesn't understand how it works) But we're here today, feeling alive (But we're together now and I feel alive when I'm with you- so I'm this moment I am alive)
It starts to fall apart (Then, back to self but Let me take control he knows it's outside his ability to pull it together) ____ (His outburst) Reminiscing being back in his presence The days of nothing more, Can't rise higher than he is--- Something I won't find again, And fears can I experience the high of Jesus presence again in the same measure Deliver us (Bring us together again in you) Can't hear the words you say Again, distance. Don't know what to to do how to walk if I can't hear you guide me
Does it really matter? (Is this all in vain) I'd give the world to you (If it were mine to give in it's entirety) If you just... (Please)
Fly into the distance Disappear for a while And I can't make sense of this But we're today, alive
Fly into the distance Disappear for a while I can't make sense of this But we're here today, alive
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