"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.
Every time I think about you
Heaven knows I fall into a groove
You're like a great interlude
Every time I think about your body, my body says, "ooh, ooh"
Every time I think about you heaven needs a prayer
'Cause you're married and you've even got a family too
Pray that they don't hear you
Now let me see you dance on your tippy toe, ooh
What a perfect life they think you've got right
Problems kept inside, look neat and organized
What you need in life is some wonder
A new friend with visions like you
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
Stay very close to the floor
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
Careful when you close the door
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
When we tippy toe, tippy toe (just imagine)
My body under your body
Here we go everybody, three, two, one
Every time I think about you
Heaven knows I fall into a groove
You're like a great interlude
Every time I think about your body, my body says, "ooh, ooh"
Every time I think about you heaven needs a prayer
'Cause you're married and you've even got a family too
Pray that they don't hear you
Now let me see you dance on your tippy toe, ooh
When the thrill subsides, will you still be mine?
Worry infiltrates my head till I kill it, I fill it instead with
Improper visions of you
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
Stay very close to the floor
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
Careful when you close the door
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
When we tippy toe, tippy toe
Nobody has to know, body screaming more
On your mark set three, two, one
Every time I think about you
Heaven knows I fall into a groove
You're like a great interlude
Every time I think about your body, my body says, "ooh, ooh"
Every time I think about you heaven needs a prayer
'Cause you're married and you've even got a family too
Pray that they don't hear you
Now let me see you dance on your tippy toe, ooh
Every time I think about you
Heaven knows I fall into a groove
You're like a great interlude
Every time I think about your body, my body says, "ooh, ooh"
Every time I think about you heaven needs a prayer
'Cause you're married and you've even got a family too
Pray that they don't hear you
Now let me see you dance on your tippy toe, ooh
Heaven knows I fall into a groove
You're like a great interlude
Every time I think about your body, my body says, "ooh, ooh"
Every time I think about you heaven needs a prayer
'Cause you're married and you've even got a family too
Pray that they don't hear you
Now let me see you dance on your tippy toe, ooh
What a perfect life they think you've got right
Problems kept inside, look neat and organized
What you need in life is some wonder
A new friend with visions like you
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
Stay very close to the floor
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
Careful when you close the door
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
When we tippy toe, tippy toe (just imagine)
My body under your body
Here we go everybody, three, two, one
Every time I think about you
Heaven knows I fall into a groove
You're like a great interlude
Every time I think about your body, my body says, "ooh, ooh"
Every time I think about you heaven needs a prayer
'Cause you're married and you've even got a family too
Pray that they don't hear you
Now let me see you dance on your tippy toe, ooh
When the thrill subsides, will you still be mine?
Worry infiltrates my head till I kill it, I fill it instead with
Improper visions of you
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
Stay very close to the floor
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
Careful when you close the door
Nobody has to know (synchronize it)
When we tippy toe, tippy toe
Nobody has to know, body screaming more
On your mark set three, two, one
Every time I think about you
Heaven knows I fall into a groove
You're like a great interlude
Every time I think about your body, my body says, "ooh, ooh"
Every time I think about you heaven needs a prayer
'Cause you're married and you've even got a family too
Pray that they don't hear you
Now let me see you dance on your tippy toe, ooh
Every time I think about you
Heaven knows I fall into a groove
You're like a great interlude
Every time I think about your body, my body says, "ooh, ooh"
Every time I think about you heaven needs a prayer
'Cause you're married and you've even got a family too
Pray that they don't hear you
Now let me see you dance on your tippy toe, ooh
Lyrics submitted by SongMeanings
Tippy Toe Lyrics as written by Hikaru Utada
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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
Mental Istid
Ebba Grön
Ebba Grön
This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
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.
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.