"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.
The birds don't sing,
They crush my skull,
And I am worthless
And the heights of what I stand up to are not in you.
And I can't get no words
With no feelings from nothing.
I don't know,
Where you could ever go.
1st voice chorus I wonder why,
You bleach the sky
You could not break These strings of mine
I never knew,
To walk back to A place that now belongs to you
In body 2nd voice chorus
There I stand My earth Me here in body
I stand my earth Me here in body A three point conversation in doors with
No meaning when the world won't listen,
Then you make your own way forward. Get out.
Not going to waste outside and I don't know where you could ever go.
I wonder why, you bleach the sky
And could not break these strings of mine
I never knew to walk back to a place
That now belongs to you
I wonder why you reach the sky
For liars and lies and turn(s)
For term(s) sake I never knew to walk back to a place
That once belong(ed) to you nobody.
There I stand My earth Me here in body
I stand my earth Me here in body
I stand my earth Me here in body
I stand my earth Me here - nobody
They crush my skull,
And I am worthless
And the heights of what I stand up to are not in you.
And I can't get no words
With no feelings from nothing.
I don't know,
Where you could ever go.
1st voice chorus I wonder why,
You bleach the sky
You could not break These strings of mine
I never knew,
To walk back to A place that now belongs to you
In body 2nd voice chorus
There I stand My earth Me here in body
I stand my earth Me here in body A three point conversation in doors with
No meaning when the world won't listen,
Then you make your own way forward. Get out.
Not going to waste outside and I don't know where you could ever go.
I wonder why, you bleach the sky
And could not break these strings of mine
I never knew to walk back to a place
That now belongs to you
I wonder why you reach the sky
For liars and lies and turn(s)
For term(s) sake I never knew to walk back to a place
That once belong(ed) to you nobody.
There I stand My earth Me here in body
I stand my earth Me here in body
I stand my earth Me here in body
I stand my earth Me here - nobody
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Tremelo Song Lyrics as written by Martin Victor Blunt Jonathan Thomas Brookes
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