"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.
Outside, I can see your breath
But you're not there, and mine is hardly left.
Twilight, feels the morning press
Above, every star, is seamed with your duress.
Inside, I can hear each step
But they're not yours, a sleepless dream at best.
As black skies, flow to auburn reds
To wake the night and of me what is left.
If I don't want to see you, it's because it hurts too much
All this time spent wondering if I was just a crutch.
Waiting for the day to kill this night, and carry with it you away forever.
But you're not there, and mine is hardly left.
Twilight, feels the morning press
Above, every star, is seamed with your duress.
Inside, I can hear each step
But they're not yours, a sleepless dream at best.
As black skies, flow to auburn reds
To wake the night and of me what is left.
If I don't want to see you, it's because it hurts too much
All this time spent wondering if I was just a crutch.
Waiting for the day to kill this night, and carry with it you away forever.
Lyrics submitted by NoiseCore
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
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Beautiful metaphor; a crush as the night. At first I thought he was just like me and couldn't get to sleep and then you get to those last lines 'waiting for the day to kill this night, and carry with it you away forever.' makes me smile.
this song sounds soo good on the recording...it's got a great vibe to it that fits the lyrics perfectly....one can just imagine the "morning press"
I really felt this song when i first heard it. The only part that i thought differently of was "if i was just a crutch." I always thought it said crush. Crutch works so much better though. Makes you wonder, if the people that depended on you, and were important in your life, used you for that. Did they just walk away, tossing you aside like a crutch no longer needed for walking.
i agree with above. (sigh) think i have been a "crutch" many times...
i think this song shows the meaning of missing someone and how you feel after they are gone, the thoughts that run thru your head,and the beauty of nature that you notice when you are alone and the one you love is gone
does anyone kno what album this song is on? i cant seem to find it.
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this is such a gorgeous song. the lyrics are just so illustrative of how love can just haunt you...definately one of my favorite songs.
If I don't want to see you, it's because it hurts too much, Something everybody feels at one point, and an excellent way of sayin it
These lyrics are so classic...but to hear the actual music in accompaniment...brilliant.