"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.
Pick it up, pick it all up
And start again
You've got a second chance
You could go home
Escape it all
It's just irrelevant
It's just medicine
It's just medicine
You could still be
What you want to
What you said you were
When I met you
You've got a warm heart
You've got a beautiful brain
But it's disintegrating
From all the medicine
From all the medicine
From all the medicine
Medicine
You could still be
What you want to be
What you said you were
When you met me
You could still be
What you want to
What you said you were
When I met you
When you met me
When I met you
You
You
You
You
You
You
You
And start again
You've got a second chance
You could go home
Escape it all
It's just irrelevant
It's just medicine
It's just medicine
You could still be
What you want to
What you said you were
When I met you
You've got a warm heart
You've got a beautiful brain
But it's disintegrating
From all the medicine
From all the medicine
From all the medicine
Medicine
You could still be
What you want to be
What you said you were
When you met me
You could still be
What you want to
What you said you were
When I met you
When you met me
When I met you
You
You
You
You
You
You
You
Lyrics submitted by KittieWriting, edited by barrington, RemyCiel
Medicine Lyrics as written by Ailidh Lennon Adele Bethel
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I think this song is also about trying to escape something. But i do not think any of us knows exactly what the medicine is. It could be physical, like alcohol or drugs, or mental, like a feeling of depression. However, I think this ambiguity was purposeful by daughter so that we could all relate. Either way, this is my interpretation.
"Pick it up, Pick it all up. And start again." -I think this part is talking about the person having just commited whatever act is their "Medicine", and this person is feelingtired and depressed and cannot escape this loop of using the medicine, feeling better, then feeling worse again and wanting more.
"You've got a second chance, you could go home. Escape it all, it's just irrelevant. It's just medicine." -I think this part is the singer talking to the user of the medicine and saying he should go home and reconnect with his roots, and escape this problem.
"You could still be, what you want to, what you said you were. When I met you." -I think the user of the medicine declined her offer, but this is the singer trying to convince them. Saying that they could have a bright future, and have success.
"You've got a warm heart, You've got a beautiful brain, But it's disintegrating." -This is her still trying to convince him, saying that the person still has so much opportunity to be great, but if the person doesn't seize the opportunity now, he will disintegrate(be stuck like this forever).
Then the rest is just repeats of what was already said.
@RemyCiel this is exactly what I got from it
@RemyCiel this is exactly what I got from it