"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.
If I had to lose a mile
If I had to touch feelings
I would lose my soul
The way I do
I don't have to think
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect
And that's old news
Would you like to hear my voice
Sprinkled with emotion
Invented at your birth?
I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse I cannot see
I formulate infinity
Stored deep inside me
If I had to lose a mile
If I had to touch feelings
I would lose my soul
The way I do
I don't have to think
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect
And that's old news
Would you like to hear my voice
Sprinkled with emotion
Invented at your birth?
I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse I cannot see
I formulate infinity
Stored deep inside me
Infinity inside me
If I had to touch feelings
I would lose my soul
The way I do
I don't have to think
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect
And that's old news
Would you like to hear my voice
Sprinkled with emotion
Invented at your birth?
I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse I cannot see
I formulate infinity
Stored deep inside me
If I had to lose a mile
If I had to touch feelings
I would lose my soul
The way I do
I don't have to think
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect
And that's old news
Would you like to hear my voice
Sprinkled with emotion
Invented at your birth?
I can't see the end of me
My whole expanse I cannot see
I formulate infinity
Stored deep inside me
Infinity inside me
Lyrics submitted by bonj, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Oh, Me Lyrics as written by Curtis Kirkwood
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this is a spiritual interpretation, so if you think 'spiritual', is a stupid hippy concept, then dont read this cus you wont like it
I think the chorus , i cant see etc, is talking about the illusion of separateness that we all feel from the rest of the world
Its like eastern religion stuff, he cant see the end of himself because he feels like he is continuous with the world around him, ego death from taking lsd or from religious awakening or both
infinity is stored deep inside him because he realized that the entire world that he knows exists as a perception in his own mind
since feelings are not rational and cant be pinned down exactly, if he were to touch feelings, it would mean that he would have to had lost his earthly soul and his earthly perception of feelings, again ego death
i dont have to think etc hes just saying that he feels connected to the point where meaning just flows from him into the song, and he doesnt have to try anymore, hes in the zone
emotion invented at your birth, hes actually talking to the person listening to the song and without the listeners birth his emotion would have no meaning accept to him,
so it takes connection of two minds/souls to experience emotion