"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.
So Jesus left you lonely
Feels like nothing's really holy
No one no one hears your calling
Falling everything is falling
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
So Jesus left you lonely
Feels like nothings really holy
No one no one hears your calling
Falling everything is falling
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Try so hard just to speak to you
Nothing ever seems to come through
Circumstances on the breaking back
Try to sit down is a therapy
Oh salvation
Oh salvation
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Feels like nothing's really holy
No one no one hears your calling
Falling everything is falling
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
So Jesus left you lonely
Feels like nothings really holy
No one no one hears your calling
Falling everything is falling
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Try so hard just to speak to you
Nothing ever seems to come through
Circumstances on the breaking back
Try to sit down is a therapy
Oh salvation
Oh salvation
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Lyrics submitted by ShiverForMe
Salvation Lyrics as written by Peter Hayes Nicholas Jago
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Defo a song about loosing your faith and religion adn trying to regain that and expressing weather if it is all reall and actually worth the bother, i love it when he says "ohh salvation" get shivers great song and realyl weird how B.R.M.C seem to have this very cool relatioship with religion and faith i thinbk its brilliant.
brmc is fucking shit. i love them
weed music
Is it about losing faith in God or something? When you lose faith becasue everything isn't going how you want it to be.
hahaha, weed music, i found that hilarious.
but seriously, this is a great song. this and howl are my two favorites. its about faith, thats so obvious. "do you feel alive?" its like keeping your hope and faith in whatever problems you encounter.
i know this has been brought up about another brmc song with the word jesus in it, but it's really likely this song is using jesus as a symbol for a drug dealer in this song. just read the lyrics and think about it you'll see it.
It maybe about drugs, yes. Jesus is the drug dealer and the serpent is the abstinence. Salvation is finally finding a fix.
But I still think it's about losing faith.