"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.
I've got my memories
Always inside of me
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
I believe you now
I've come too far
No I can't go back
Back to how it was
Created for a place I've never known
This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong
Where I Belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
This is home
Belief over misery
I've seen the enemy
And I won't go back
Back to how it was
And I got my heart set on what happens next
I got my eyes wide it's not over yet
We are miracles and we're not alone
This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong
Where I Belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
This is home
And now after all my searching
After all my questions
I'm gonna call it home
I've got a brand new mindset
I can finally see the sunset
I'm gonna call it home
This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong
Where I Belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
This is home
Now I know
Yeah, this is home
I've come too far
And I won't go back
Yeah, this is home
Always inside of me
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
I believe you now
I've come too far
No I can't go back
Back to how it was
Created for a place I've never known
This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong
Where I Belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
This is home
Belief over misery
I've seen the enemy
And I won't go back
Back to how it was
And I got my heart set on what happens next
I got my eyes wide it's not over yet
We are miracles and we're not alone
This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong
Where I Belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
This is home
And now after all my searching
After all my questions
I'm gonna call it home
I've got a brand new mindset
I can finally see the sunset
I'm gonna call it home
This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong
Where I Belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
This is home
Now I know
Yeah, this is home
I've come too far
And I won't go back
Yeah, this is home
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This Is Home [Soundtrack] Lyrics as written by Andrew Creighton Dodd Adam Watts
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Walt Disney Music Company
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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This song means really when you are betrayed and being fooled, about being in yourself 'home' . and always finding a way to cross long things in life
I'm pretty sure "home" is heaven.
"It's a long long way from paradise to where I am today " and then "Someday I’ll see home "
This part's kinda cool, I think:
"I've seen ashes shine like chrome Someday I’ll see home"
"see[ing] ashes shine like chrome" is a picture of how it's going to be in heaven. The ashes are us humans. (From ashes to ashes and dust to dust) We're worthless next to God. When a Christian goes to heaven, he will shine like chrome, metaphorically speaking, because he's with God in a perfect place, no longer a heap of dirt/ashes.
And then there's this:
"It's a long way from the shadows in my cave Up to Your reality To watch the sunlight taking over, over "
The philosopher Plato came up with the idea of a cave, where several people were chained to a wall and all they could see were shadows cast on the wall in front of them by a fire behind them. Since that's all they know, they grow to believe that those shadows are all that's real. But if one of them was set free and went up into the sunlight, at first it would hurt (his eyes) but then he would finally see what's really real. Here's a fuller explanation:
faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm
this is my "life's okay" song. love it.
This song was played on the radio interview i heard where they talked about everything switchfoot, name droping people ive never heard of, but promoting Pinback and stuff. Pinback is to switchfoot what Unwritten Law is to blink 182. I had tears in my eyes, John didnt have much 2 say about this one, but the DJ was very emotional.
This song is, like sandcastle said, a great song just about life in general. Its just a song about putting your eyes, heart and mind towards God. Its a beautiful song to help you make it through the harder and depressing stages of life. My favorite line is:
"All thats in my head is in your hands"
my favorite part of the song is "I can see the stars from way down here" everytime i hear it i think about how we have such good stuff already and its just gonna get better in heaven.
"It's a longer way from yesterday to where I am today It's a long way from my thoughts to what I’ll say It's a long long way from paradise to where I am today "
very good!
It's in my head, it's in Your hands It's in Your hands