"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.
She lives, no fear
Doubtless in everything she knows
Through time unchecked,
The sureness of her flows.
She leaves herself inside you when she goes.
She lives in a time of her own...
You have always heard her speaking,
She's always been in your ear.
Her voice sounds a tone within you,
Listen to the words you hear.
Her time has no past or future,
She lives everything she sees.
Her time doesn't spin outside here,
It's in every breath she breaths.
She lives in a time of her own...
Her love whips hard
Like wind and stands in eager pain.
She wins your thoughts
And drives your inner planes.
She clears and shares
A love that never strains.
She lives in a time of her own...
You have always heard her speaking,
She's always been in your ear.
Her voice sounds a tone within you,
Listen to the words you hear.
Her time has no past or future,
She lives everything she sees.
Her time doesn't spin outside here,
It's in every breath she breaths.
She lives in a time of her own...
Her eyes like light reflect the aura of her hair.
She sends, attends, behind an alpha stare.
She seeks the stars and spirals up their stairs.
She lives in a time of her own.
She lives in a time of her own.
she lives in a time of her own.
she lives in a time of her own.
Doubtless in everything she knows
Through time unchecked,
The sureness of her flows.
She leaves herself inside you when she goes.
She lives in a time of her own...
You have always heard her speaking,
She's always been in your ear.
Her voice sounds a tone within you,
Listen to the words you hear.
Her time has no past or future,
She lives everything she sees.
Her time doesn't spin outside here,
It's in every breath she breaths.
She lives in a time of her own...
Her love whips hard
Like wind and stands in eager pain.
She wins your thoughts
And drives your inner planes.
She clears and shares
A love that never strains.
She lives in a time of her own...
You have always heard her speaking,
She's always been in your ear.
Her voice sounds a tone within you,
Listen to the words you hear.
Her time has no past or future,
She lives everything she sees.
Her time doesn't spin outside here,
It's in every breath she breaths.
She lives in a time of her own...
Her eyes like light reflect the aura of her hair.
She sends, attends, behind an alpha stare.
She seeks the stars and spirals up their stairs.
She lives in a time of her own.
She lives in a time of her own.
she lives in a time of her own.
she lives in a time of her own.
Lyrics submitted by ninjawish
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What does Roky mean by 'drives your inner planes'? I don't get it...like butterflies in the stomach/confusion or what? The rest seems pretty clear to me.
@seasidezingst The lyrics are to a drug's spirit, maybe ushrooms spirit, because it's a popular drug and a femenine spirit is usually felt with them. He means that the "voice" of the trip drives your mind to profound states of... development or another word. Having an "illumination" or healing is the same with mushrooms than with yoga or with whatever method you use to travel your mind until going out of it: if you have no past or future, if you live everything you see, if your time is in every breath you breath, you're feeling you're alive in eternity, in a time of your own. It sounds probably about mushrooms for me also because of sentences like "the suereness of her flows" and "she clears and shares". She has leaved herself inside me when she went, now everything is different, also this song.
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