"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.
Of all the shooting stars I knew
I never felt at ease with anyone but you
Don't ever wonder where I go
Remember that the grass still grows beneath the snow
When everything around turns blue
Just fall asleep and wake when it's all through
There's battle scars on all my guitars but I still come out here and play
And now I've lost your touch again
I know I'm only one in 20,000 men
I promise not to let you go
Just close your eyes and sleep right through the falling snow
When I finally wash ashore
I'm coming back to kiss the girl I kissed before
Of all the shooting stars I knew
I never fell for anyone but you
There's battle scars on all my guitars but I still come out here and play
There's battle scars on my face and my arms but you still kiss me everyday
There's battle scars on all my guitars but I still come out everyday
There's battle scars on my face and my arms but you still kiss me anyway
(And driving home from your house at night I blink and make a hard right
The tape you gave me flies across the dash and slaps me in the face)
I never felt at ease with anyone but you
Don't ever wonder where I go
Remember that the grass still grows beneath the snow
When everything around turns blue
Just fall asleep and wake when it's all through
There's battle scars on all my guitars but I still come out here and play
And now I've lost your touch again
I know I'm only one in 20,000 men
I promise not to let you go
Just close your eyes and sleep right through the falling snow
When I finally wash ashore
I'm coming back to kiss the girl I kissed before
Of all the shooting stars I knew
I never fell for anyone but you
There's battle scars on all my guitars but I still come out here and play
There's battle scars on my face and my arms but you still kiss me everyday
There's battle scars on all my guitars but I still come out everyday
There's battle scars on my face and my arms but you still kiss me anyway
(And driving home from your house at night I blink and make a hard right
The tape you gave me flies across the dash and slaps me in the face)
Lyrics submitted by Awkward Sylence
Battlescars Lyrics as written by Edmund John Simons Thomas Owen Mostyn Rowlands
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Anthem Entertainment
Lyrics powered by LyricFind
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
this is such an amazing song and even better to see live. the lyrics make this song so easy to relate to.
yeah, i agree with redplaid, this song is incredible live.
i love this song
tear... playing it in the band im in. GGRREATT song. somebody should put up the meaning, cause i'm too lazy =)
this song is great and its easy to realte to
relate*
I think this song has a deeper meanign than just being able to relate to it. The opening lyric: of all the shootingstars i knew i never felt at ease with anyone but you don't ever wonder where i go remember that the grass still grows beneath the snow
In my mind makes reference to someone loosing a lover over something stupid.
the next line: when everything around turns blue just fall asleep and wake when it's all through
I think it's saying that life is sorta like a dream, good bad, it's still there.
the next line: there's battlescars on all my guitars but i still come out here and play
the guitar reference is easily assosiated with his heart, there's scars, but still he talks to her.
Then the next line: and now i've lost your touch again i know i'm only one in 20,000 men i promise not to let you go just close your eyes and sleep right through the falling snow
It's the artist telling that s/he had lost the person he's in love with. and How he wishes it was a dream.
next line is the chorus, see above and it works with all of them into some body party of soul ect.
Thank you, I bought this cd after watching a Mtv2 interview with the band from the Vans Warped Tour
This a great downer song, if youre feeling emotionally traumatized, this song helps. I mean, you just want to yel out the words, not just sing them and woo-hoo, Ozma is at Warped Tour, which they greatly deserve to be on, though Im mad at their friends Thrice arent going to be there.
what a great song. ive lost all emotion. apathy seems to be setting in.
this isnt my name, but i will use this some what incogneto opertounity to lash out, fuck this mtv buisness, ozma has been an amazing band on the l.a. circuit for quite awhile so turn off your tv and go to a show, see them in a club, fuck the warped tour, and fuck you too, this song has made me cry more times than i can count