"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.
I watched you change
Into a fly
I looked away
You're on fire
Yeah, I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
And you feel so alive
I have watched you change
I took you home
Set you on the glass
I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed
Yeah, I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never had wings
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
I look at the cross
Then I look away
Give you the gun
Blow me away
I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I have watched you change
How you feel alive
You feel alive
You feel alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never had wings
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
You've changed
You've changed
You've changed
Into a fly
Into a fly
I looked away
You're on fire
Yeah, I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
And you feel so alive
I have watched you change
I took you home
Set you on the glass
I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed
Yeah, I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never had wings
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
I look at the cross
Then I look away
Give you the gun
Blow me away
I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I have watched you change
How you feel alive
You feel alive
You feel alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never had wings
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
You've changed
You've changed
You've changed
Into a fly
Lyrics submitted by sawg, edited by Mellow_Harsher, kellylugosisdead
Change (In The House Of Flies) Lyrics as written by Chi Cheng Abe Cunningham
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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A lot of people have told me a lot of different meanings.. But what I always took away from this song, was that it's about changing someone for the worst, and feeling so guilty you want to die.
For example, let say you had a drug habit, but never got yourself into a bad situation, just recreation and that it. But you turned someone onto this drug, and they turned into a major junky. "I watched you change into a fly" To me is like "I watched you become this filthy creature", and "it's like you never had wings", Maybe it's like "i used to see you as an angle, now I see you as a fly". Tearing off the wings, making this person this broken, damaged creature. And all you have left if your guilt for letting this happen to someone.
That's what I took from this.
@thedude22 That's an awesome interpretation. I think your right buddy