"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 can't help but feel alive, yeah, yeah
七回目のベルで受話器を取った君
名前を言わなくても声で
すぐ分かってくれる
唇から自然とこぼれ落ちるメロディー
でも言葉を失った瞬間が一番幸せ
嫌なことがあった日も
君に会うと全部フッ飛んじゃうよ
君に会えない my rainy days
声を聞けば自動的に sun will shine
It's automatic
側にいるだけで その目に見つめられるだけで
ドキドキ止まらない No とは言えない (I don't know why)
I just can't help
It's automatic
抱きしめられると 君と paradise にいるみたい
キラキラまぶしくて 目をつぶるとすぐ (I don't know why)
I feel so good
It's automatic
Oh yeah, yeah yeah
あいまいな態度がまだ不安にさせるから
こんなにほれてることは もう少し秘密にしておくよ
やさしさがつらかった日も
いつも本当のことを言ってくれた
ひとりじゃ泣けない rainy days
指輪をさわればほらね sun will shine
It's automatic
側にいるだけで 体中が熱くなってくる
ハラハラ隠せない息さえ出来ない (I don't know why)
I just can't help
It's automatic
アクセスしてみると映る computer screen の中
チカチカしてる文字 手をあててみると (I don't know why)
I feel so warm
It's automatic
側にいるだけで 愛しいなんて思わない
ただ必要なだけ淋しいからじゃない (I don't know why)
I just need you (oh yeah)
It's automatic
抱きしめられると君と paradise にいるみたい
キラキラまぶしくて wow, wow, yeah (I don't know why)
I feel so good
It's automatic (tell me why)
I just want you to feel with me
(I don't know why)
Tell me why
It's automatic
Automatic
Oh-oh
七回目のベルで受話器を取った君
名前を言わなくても声で
すぐ分かってくれる
唇から自然とこぼれ落ちるメロディー
でも言葉を失った瞬間が一番幸せ
嫌なことがあった日も
君に会うと全部フッ飛んじゃうよ
君に会えない my rainy days
声を聞けば自動的に sun will shine
It's automatic
側にいるだけで その目に見つめられるだけで
ドキドキ止まらない No とは言えない (I don't know why)
I just can't help
It's automatic
抱きしめられると 君と paradise にいるみたい
キラキラまぶしくて 目をつぶるとすぐ (I don't know why)
I feel so good
It's automatic
Oh yeah, yeah yeah
あいまいな態度がまだ不安にさせるから
こんなにほれてることは もう少し秘密にしておくよ
やさしさがつらかった日も
いつも本当のことを言ってくれた
ひとりじゃ泣けない rainy days
指輪をさわればほらね sun will shine
It's automatic
側にいるだけで 体中が熱くなってくる
ハラハラ隠せない息さえ出来ない (I don't know why)
I just can't help
It's automatic
アクセスしてみると映る computer screen の中
チカチカしてる文字 手をあててみると (I don't know why)
I feel so warm
It's automatic
側にいるだけで 愛しいなんて思わない
ただ必要なだけ淋しいからじゃない (I don't know why)
I just need you (oh yeah)
It's automatic
抱きしめられると君と paradise にいるみたい
キラキラまぶしくて wow, wow, yeah (I don't know why)
I feel so good
It's automatic (tell me why)
I just want you to feel with me
(I don't know why)
Tell me why
It's automatic
Automatic
Oh-oh
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i dont understand Japanese but the beats are good. =P the english bits sounds svweet
this was the first utada song i ever heard! its a real nice song, doesnt have that much meaning since i dont understand Japanese that well..yet
i like the songs of utada hikaru. one of the songs of utada is FIRST LOVE which i like most.
great song.... its video should have been better
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