"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.
My head was warm my skin was soaked
I called your name 'til the fever broke
When I awoke the moon still hung
The night so black that the darkness hums
I raised myself my legs were weak
I prayed my mind be good to me
An awful noise filled the air
I heard a scream in the woods somewhere
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
A woman's voice i quickly ran
Into the trees with empty hands a fox it was
He shook afraid
I spoke no words, no sound he made
His bone exposed his hind was lame
I raised a stone to end his pain
What caused the wound? How large the teeth?
I saw new eyes were watching me
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
The creature lunged i turned and ran
To save a life I didn't have
Dear, in the chase there as I flew
Forgot all prayers of joining you
I clutched my life and wished it kept
My dearest love, I'm not done yet
How many years i know I'll bear
I found something in the woods somewhere
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
I called your name 'til the fever broke
When I awoke the moon still hung
The night so black that the darkness hums
I raised myself my legs were weak
I prayed my mind be good to me
An awful noise filled the air
I heard a scream in the woods somewhere
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
A woman's voice i quickly ran
Into the trees with empty hands a fox it was
He shook afraid
I spoke no words, no sound he made
His bone exposed his hind was lame
I raised a stone to end his pain
What caused the wound? How large the teeth?
I saw new eyes were watching me
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
The creature lunged i turned and ran
To save a life I didn't have
Dear, in the chase there as I flew
Forgot all prayers of joining you
I clutched my life and wished it kept
My dearest love, I'm not done yet
How many years i know I'll bear
I found something in the woods somewhere
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
Lyrics submitted by tallsan, edited by teaspill, Uranium, swaghetti_prim
In the Woods Somewhere Lyrics as written by Andrew Hozier Byrne
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A woman's voice in the woods, but the fox, no sound HE made. Will someone please enlighten me with the meaning of this song. I can't stop listening.
@maximus104 I'd love to tell you, but i don't know myself. I feel though, that the whole thing is a dream, or metaphor for other journeys in life, but someone more analytical than i needs to find this page and decipher
@maximus104, @hokealogenous. I suppose the fox crying in pain could be similar to a woman screaming? the whole sequence is very dreamlike! It's like he's in the woods at night and hearing all these weird noises, and letting your imagination run wild, and imagining all sorts of wild creatures and wild scenarios. I think what he finds in the woods is courage!!<br /> <br /> Two things struck me - one was the large teeth, like the wolf from red riding hood.<br /> The other was in the final two verses, we've another two animals deer (dear) and a bear (bear). <br /> Don't know if that adds any insight however.
@maximus104 this is actually very clear. Fox screams sound just like a woman screaming, if you've never heard one. So he thinks he hears a woman, but actually finds instead an injured fox (that's the "he")