"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.
Left the door wide open
Didn't have a clue
Thought that I had locked it
The lock was broken too
In you came like summer rain
Filling up my heart and yours too
I got all these symptoms I can't describe
Tell me is there something that can be prescribed
All these nights of losing sleep
Left me in this state my heart goes
Pitter pat
I'm tongue tied
I'm feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, it's hard to speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I'm coming down with something, love-sick kind of flu
I'm working up a fever and it's all because of you
Do do do do do do
All because of you
I've been dead I can't kick
No matter how hard I try
My knees are getting weaker and I can't deny
Falling faster
Falling deep
Felt it from the start
My heart goes
Pitter pat
I'm tongue tied
I'm feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, it's hard to speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I'm coming down with something love-sick kind of flu
I'm working up a fever and it's all because of you
I'm in love
It's all because of you
(I can't keep from falling) x8
Pitter pat
I'm tongue tied
I'm feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, it's hard to speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I'm coming down with something love-sick kind of flu
I'm working up a fever and it's all because of you
Pitter pat
I'm tongue tied
I'm feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, I can hardly to speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I'm coming down with something love-sick kind of flu
I'm working up a fever and it's all because of you
Do do do do do do
All because of you
Didn't have a clue
Thought that I had locked it
The lock was broken too
In you came like summer rain
Filling up my heart and yours too
I got all these symptoms I can't describe
Tell me is there something that can be prescribed
All these nights of losing sleep
Left me in this state my heart goes
Pitter pat
I'm tongue tied
I'm feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, it's hard to speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I'm coming down with something, love-sick kind of flu
I'm working up a fever and it's all because of you
Do do do do do do
All because of you
I've been dead I can't kick
No matter how hard I try
My knees are getting weaker and I can't deny
Falling faster
Falling deep
Felt it from the start
My heart goes
Pitter pat
I'm tongue tied
I'm feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, it's hard to speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I'm coming down with something love-sick kind of flu
I'm working up a fever and it's all because of you
I'm in love
It's all because of you
(I can't keep from falling) x8
Pitter pat
I'm tongue tied
I'm feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, it's hard to speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I'm coming down with something love-sick kind of flu
I'm working up a fever and it's all because of you
Pitter pat
I'm tongue tied
I'm feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, I can hardly to speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I'm coming down with something love-sick kind of flu
I'm working up a fever and it's all because of you
Do do do do do do
All because of you
Lyrics submitted by Teacup xP
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Yo La Tengo
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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Ed Sheeran
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