"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.
A juxtaposition in fate
Find our mutual coordinates
Moments of clarity are so rare
I better document this
At last, the view is fierce
All that matters is
Who is open-chested
And who has coagulated
Who can share and
Who has shut down the chances?
Show me emotional respect, oh respect, oh respect
And I have emotional needs, oh needs, ooh, ooh, ooh
I wish to synchronize our feelings, our feelings, ooh
What is it that I have
That makes me feel your pain?
Like milking a stone
To get you to say it, and
Who is open?
And who has shut up
And if one feels closed
How does one stay open?
We have emotional needs, oh needs, oh needs, ooh, ooh, ooh
I wish to synchronize our feelings, our feelings, ooh
I'll show some emotional respect, oh respect, ooh
A juxtaposition in fate
Find our mutual coordinates
Find our mutual coordinates
Moments of clarity are so rare
I better document this
At last, the view is fierce
All that matters is
Who is open-chested
And who has coagulated
Who can share and
Who has shut down the chances?
Show me emotional respect, oh respect, oh respect
And I have emotional needs, oh needs, ooh, ooh, ooh
I wish to synchronize our feelings, our feelings, ooh
What is it that I have
That makes me feel your pain?
Like milking a stone
To get you to say it, and
Who is open?
And who has shut up
And if one feels closed
How does one stay open?
We have emotional needs, oh needs, oh needs, ooh, ooh, ooh
I wish to synchronize our feelings, our feelings, ooh
I'll show some emotional respect, oh respect, ooh
A juxtaposition in fate
Find our mutual coordinates
Lyrics submitted by volkinjaz, edited by helloiamhf
Stonemilker Lyrics as written by Bjork Gudmundsdottir
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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