"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.
Find myself singing the same songs everyday
Ones that make me feel good
When things behing the smiles ain't okay
Around and over and in-between the seas
I need to be on top of a mountain
Where I can be see everything
'Cause this paranoia's getting old
Now as I open my eyes to start another day
I'm in a pile of puke
Empty bag of execuses
My love for friends and family
you know I need them
And under a sun that's seen it all before
My feet are so cold
And I can't believe that I have to bang my head against this wall again
But the blows they have just a little more space in-between them
Gonna take a breath and try again.
Ones that make me feel good
When things behing the smiles ain't okay
Around and over and in-between the seas
I need to be on top of a mountain
Where I can be see everything
'Cause this paranoia's getting old
Now as I open my eyes to start another day
I'm in a pile of puke
Empty bag of execuses
My love for friends and family
you know I need them
And under a sun that's seen it all before
My feet are so cold
And I can't believe that I have to bang my head against this wall again
But the blows they have just a little more space in-between them
Gonna take a breath and try again.
Lyrics submitted by bubbrock316, edited by mbowen
Walk Lyrics as written by Shannon Hoon Glen Graham
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group
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Another song where Shannon battles himself, assuming it was drug influenced also. I deifnately feel these lyrics right now, it leaves that dull depression after taste... which may not sound pleasant, but when you can relate it fills your cup.
Changing your mood through music, but everyday it becomes the same songs. Needing to overcome your troubles, and not live in a state of worry...But your addicted to drugs and it's the same story day after day for you (It's become a way of life). Tackling your issues a little at a time, and the pain starts to ease off but maybe it will never end and you just have to cope.
Every time I hear this song I find new meaning in it. This song has helped me get through many dark times. "And I can't believe I have to bang my head against this wall again." I'd agree with discgo that Shannon's wall was his drug problem. When I listen to the song and I hear that line, I feel tears well up as I think about whatever wall I have been beating my own head against lately (though sometimes I just wonder what was going on with Shannon when he wrote this). But as soon as I hear "But the blows they have just a little more space in between them, gonna take a breath and try again" I feel like there is always hope no matter how badly I have fucked up. This song keeps telling me never to quit. When I'm feeling depressed I listen to this song over and over, and it never fails to inspire me. We miss you Shannon.
i love blind melon. this is one of my favorite songs of theirs. i mean you can just tell by the way they sound that it means so much to them.
I feel this song is about failed and new attempts at sobriety. Being a junkie who is new to recovery, this song, as well as "Change," sums up everything that I'm thinking and feeling at this point. It's a tough battle that not everyone can overcome. All these years later I'm still angry that he is dead. Certain music speaks to your soul, and Blind Melon has always been one of those bands for me.
I beleive this song represents Shannons heartbreak and downfall to his terrible addiction to drugs. He is sick of trying to quit and falling back into it all again. His family and friends are what he needs but he is so afraid to ask for the help. What a visionable emotional expierience. If only he asked for help...
Yeah, i would agree that this song is about drug addiction, i hear the lead singer was really into heroin.
Shannon was into coke not really herion atleast thats what "a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other" says.
It is about his addiction. "My feet are so cold," is a reference to how he is feeling on heroin. He is basically saying he needs to get away from the drugs and get to family & friends, but its too hard.
i absolutely love this song...
"And under a sun that's seen it all before, my feet are so cold. And I can't believe that I have to bang my head against this wall again, but the blows they have just a little more space in-between them. Gonna take a breath and try again." ...says it all, great song
Find myself singing the same songs everyday Ones that make me feel good When things behing the smiles ain't okay
Yeah I find myself singing them too...
he's not happy with himself, the things he'd done....hard to get out of his drug addiction...
I need to be on top of a mountain Where I can be see everything Cause this paranoia's getting old
He knows he need to get out of it.....in order to live happy life and not just a mask he have to put on infront of his family and friends.....
Have to agree very "touchy" song......makes you want to help him....
"Gonna take a breath and try again" Could somebody please give him the Salvation Army's number?