"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.
Primal, evil what am I
Tongue-tied 'til the day I die
There's no love made with mermaids
It's just distraction so they say
And I'm too tired to care about it
Can't you see this in my face, my face
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
It's a sorry state you're getting in
The same excuse is wearing thin
There's no self control left in me
What was not will never will be
And I'm too tired to care about it
Can't you see this in my face, my face
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
(Or am I just coping?)
And I'm too tired to care about it
Can't you see this in my face
The emphasis on coping
Can't you see this in my face, my face
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
(Can I be dreaming? Or am I just coping?)
Tongue-tied 'til the day I die
There's no love made with mermaids
It's just distraction so they say
And I'm too tired to care about it
Can't you see this in my face, my face
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
It's a sorry state you're getting in
The same excuse is wearing thin
There's no self control left in me
What was not will never will be
And I'm too tired to care about it
Can't you see this in my face, my face
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
(Or am I just coping?)
And I'm too tired to care about it
Can't you see this in my face
The emphasis on coping
Can't you see this in my face, my face
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
When I feel this strange can I go through this again?
(Can I be dreaming? Or am I just coping?)
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by tpfang56
Coping Lyrics as written by David Rowntree Steven Alexander James
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Same!
I think the explaination is in the title:a very clear cut blur tune methinks (unlike the other ones on MLIR)
I think this song is about his girlfriend breaking up with him and he feels strange on his own (when i feel this strange) And he wonders if that happens to him again if he can go through it (can i go through this again) and he's stressed and tired (i'm too tired to care about it) and he's wondering if maybe it's a dream or he's just trying to cope with bein' alone (could I be dreaming or just coping) oh and at the end of the song doesn't he say could i be dreaming or just coping?
well....does sound like he's going thru stress...
uuuhhh...... maybe not. too bad.
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