"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.
Shoulders of perfection
Let them drag you
Straight across and tell me
Have we found perfection
Are we finally lost and
I'm staring from a distance
Why don't you come get a closer look
I can guarantee that
Lickin' the package
Ain't ever quite as good as
So they're looking for a new face
With a voice to go along
I can tell you right now
That ain't my style
I don't do no sing alongs
With my freedom from
The mighty sky to the ground
She said you've got the freedom, baby
Walk out if they drag you down
Standin' on the edge of a crisis
We decide to raise our own voices
Consider that the sounds is our own
And the fact our feet grow up from the ground
This is where I want to be
This is who I want to be
So they get my voice
But they can they can never get my soul
Yes there's a million things about me
You will never know
Like they caught me on video
And yeah, they caught me on radio, yeah
They caught me on video radio
Stereo freedom from
The mighty sky to the ground
She said you've got the freedom to walk out
If you drag me down
You've got the freedom, baby, to walk out
If they drag you down
If they drag you
If they drag you
Walk out
Let them drag you
Straight across and tell me
Have we found perfection
Are we finally lost and
I'm staring from a distance
Why don't you come get a closer look
I can guarantee that
Lickin' the package
Ain't ever quite as good as
So they're looking for a new face
With a voice to go along
I can tell you right now
That ain't my style
I don't do no sing alongs
With my freedom from
The mighty sky to the ground
She said you've got the freedom, baby
Walk out if they drag you down
Standin' on the edge of a crisis
We decide to raise our own voices
Consider that the sounds is our own
And the fact our feet grow up from the ground
This is where I want to be
This is who I want to be
So they get my voice
But they can they can never get my soul
Yes there's a million things about me
You will never know
Like they caught me on video
And yeah, they caught me on radio, yeah
They caught me on video radio
Stereo freedom from
The mighty sky to the ground
She said you've got the freedom to walk out
If you drag me down
You've got the freedom, baby, to walk out
If they drag you down
If they drag you
If they drag you
Walk out
Lyrics submitted by LizardGirl
Freedom Lyrics as written by Tegan Rain Quin Sara Keirsten Quin
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Do these guys (gals rather) rock or what? And I'm not really into this type of music... so I guess that's saying something!
I love the lyric "I don't do no sing alongs with my freedom". It's like a big "fuck you" to patriotic conservative fuckers. But it probably doesn't mean that at all.
I really like this song! It's like standing up for yourself. "standin' on the edge of a crisis we decide to raise our own voices" I really like that part.
AMAZING SONG. "Standin' on the edge of a crisis We decide to raise our own voices Consider the fact that the sound Is our own and the fact Our feet grow up from the ground"
I'm thinking this was a record label telling them to do something or change something and about how and why they chose to not do so?
i love this line: "walk out if they drag you down."
i really identify with it.