"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.
Strongest taste
Loudest drop
Head is filled
The thought, unlocked
Strongest taste
Loudest drop
Head is filled
The thought, unlocked
Strongest taste
Loudest drop
Head is filled
The thought, unlocked
Strongest taste
Loudest drop
Head is filled
You'd be thirteen
I'd be thirty-five
Gone to find a place for us to hide
Be together, but alone
As the need for it has grown
You'd be thirteen
I'd be thirty-five
Gone to find a place for us to hide
Be together, but alone
As the need for it has grown, yeah
Cha cha, cha cha, cha cha
Cha cha, cha cha
A cave or a shed
A car or a bed
A hole in the ground
Or a burial mound
A bush or a tree
Or the aegean sea, will do for me
Cha cha, cha cha, cha cha
Cha cha, cha cha, ha
I can say that you look pretty
You turn my legs into spaghetti
You set my heart on fire
For you I found a vent
In the bottom of a coal mine
Just enough space for your hands in the inside
If you go
Do let me know
You'd be thirteen
I'd be thirty-five
Gone to find a place for us to hide
A den or a dessert
Perhaps an ink squirt
A cellar, a wishing well, a war
Or a guarantee, will do for me
For you I found a cell
On the top floor of a prison
Just enough space for you to fit your feet in
If you go
Do let me know
For you I found a cell
On the top floor of a prison
Just enough space for you to fit your feet in
If you go
Please let me know
I go running with a heart on fire
Loudest drop
Head is filled
The thought, unlocked
Strongest taste
Loudest drop
Head is filled
The thought, unlocked
Strongest taste
Loudest drop
Head is filled
The thought, unlocked
Strongest taste
Loudest drop
Head is filled
You'd be thirteen
I'd be thirty-five
Gone to find a place for us to hide
Be together, but alone
As the need for it has grown
You'd be thirteen
I'd be thirty-five
Gone to find a place for us to hide
Be together, but alone
As the need for it has grown, yeah
Cha cha, cha cha, cha cha
Cha cha, cha cha
A cave or a shed
A car or a bed
A hole in the ground
Or a burial mound
A bush or a tree
Or the aegean sea, will do for me
Cha cha, cha cha, cha cha
Cha cha, cha cha, ha
I can say that you look pretty
You turn my legs into spaghetti
You set my heart on fire
For you I found a vent
In the bottom of a coal mine
Just enough space for your hands in the inside
If you go
Do let me know
You'd be thirteen
I'd be thirty-five
Gone to find a place for us to hide
A den or a dessert
Perhaps an ink squirt
A cellar, a wishing well, a war
Or a guarantee, will do for me
For you I found a cell
On the top floor of a prison
Just enough space for you to fit your feet in
If you go
Do let me know
For you I found a cell
On the top floor of a prison
Just enough space for you to fit your feet in
If you go
Please let me know
I go running with a heart on fire
Lyrics submitted by DrTolley, edited by ExtremelyWell
Thirteen Thirtyfive Lyrics as written by Jens Lekman Dominique Byington
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I read on one of the youtube comments and someone that she had a miscarriage a while back, and that if her daughter were alive when she wrote that song then that's how old she'd be. "You'd be thirteen, I'd be thirty-five."
On first listening it seemed to me it was about an abortion or miscarriage - it's the counter-factual 'you'd be', 'i'd be' as you say... But then the verses alluding to escape and shelter don't seem to fit; to shelter from what? The more obvious fantasy would be to live normally with your progeny...