"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.
Here comes the cold
Break out the winter clothes
And find a love to call your own
You, enter you
Your cheeks a shade of pink
And the rest of you in powder blue
Who knows what will be
But I'll make you this guarantee, see
No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it's obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
In the dark, on the phone
You tell me the names of your brothers
And your favorite colors
I'm learning you
And when it snows again
We'll take a walk outside
And search the sky
Like children do
I'll say to you
No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it's obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
And come January, we're frozen inside
Making new resolutions a hundred times
February, won't you be my valentine?
And we'll both be safe 'til St. Patrick's Day
We should take a ride tonight around the town
And look around at all the beautiful houses
Something in the way that blue lights on a black night
Can make you feel more
Everybody, it seems to me, just wants to be
Just like you and me
Hey, hey
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
Come January, we're frozen inside
Making new resolutions a hundred times
February, won't you be my valentine?
And if our always is all that we gave
And we someday take that away
I'll be alright if it was just 'til St. Patrick's Day
Break out the winter clothes
And find a love to call your own
You, enter you
Your cheeks a shade of pink
And the rest of you in powder blue
Who knows what will be
But I'll make you this guarantee, see
No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it's obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
In the dark, on the phone
You tell me the names of your brothers
And your favorite colors
I'm learning you
And when it snows again
We'll take a walk outside
And search the sky
Like children do
I'll say to you
No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it's obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
And come January, we're frozen inside
Making new resolutions a hundred times
February, won't you be my valentine?
And we'll both be safe 'til St. Patrick's Day
We should take a ride tonight around the town
And look around at all the beautiful houses
Something in the way that blue lights on a black night
Can make you feel more
Everybody, it seems to me, just wants to be
Just like you and me
Hey, hey
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
Come January, we're frozen inside
Making new resolutions a hundred times
February, won't you be my valentine?
And if our always is all that we gave
And we someday take that away
I'll be alright if it was just 'til St. Patrick's Day
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this song makes me so happy. why HASNT anyone written about it?! its all about not wanting to wait a minute to go without someone. it hurts to be away from them for any time at all. even though theyre together for the celebration of all these holidays- he cant wait until the next time he can see her. my favorite part is: in the dark on the phone you tell me the names of your brothers and your favorite colors I'm learning you someone should learn me dammit!! :) i love this one.
Are you stupid?<br /> That is not what the song is about at all.<br /> Cold months are November - March.<br /> Within those months are a bunch of holidays, Christmas, New Years, Valentines day,<br /> holidays that you want to be with a loved one for. And since it's cold, it's another reason you want love.<br /> He's saying in November- the love is new. Why would it end<br /> December- of course it's still going on, no one wants to be alone at Christmas.<br /> January- New years you want support for your resolurtions<br /> February- Valentines day. Enough said.<br /> March is when it starts to get warm, winter fades and you don't need that love anymore to replace the cold outside. So St. Patricks day is the first holiday that isn;t related to love. Then the rest of the year there isnt a lovey holiday until winter again.<br /> He's saying he's safe 'till st. patricks day' because that's all he wants. He'll be 'fine if it was just 'till st. patricks day' because that's as long as the love is supposed to last.<br /> It's seasonal love.<br /> Reason love. <br /> Look it up. <br /> Geez.
I'm sorry Miss Amber, but last I checked this website was for people posting what THEY thought the song meant. John -and most musicians- do not write a song with one set meaning. Their music is supposed to be open to interpretations. She was sharing her thoughts of it, and you were sharing yours; however, you could have done it without calling her "stupid".<br /> <br /> & btw I think it's about being in the highest-highs of your relationships on the holidays because that was when it was most convienient, but when the holidays were over, their relationship simmered and cooled.