"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.
We are the lucky ones
We shine like a thousand suns
When all of the color runs together
I'll keep you company
In one glorious harmony
Waltzing with destiny forever
Dance me into the night
Underneath the moon shining so bright
Turning me into the light
Time dancers whirling past
I gaze through the looking glass
And feel just beyond my grasp is heaven
Sacred geometry
Where movement is poetry
Visions of you and me forever
Dance me into the night
Underneath the moon shining so bright
Turning me into the light
Dance me into the night
Underneath the full moon shining so bright
Let the dark waltz begin
Oh let me wheel, let me spin
Let it take me again
Turning me into the light
We shine like a thousand suns
When all of the color runs together
I'll keep you company
In one glorious harmony
Waltzing with destiny forever
Dance me into the night
Underneath the moon shining so bright
Turning me into the light
Time dancers whirling past
I gaze through the looking glass
And feel just beyond my grasp is heaven
Sacred geometry
Where movement is poetry
Visions of you and me forever
Dance me into the night
Underneath the moon shining so bright
Turning me into the light
Dance me into the night
Underneath the full moon shining so bright
Let the dark waltz begin
Oh let me wheel, let me spin
Let it take me again
Turning me into the light
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Dark Waltz Lyrics as written by Umberto Morasca Matteo Saggese
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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I had the odd feeling this song was about death? I may be completly off though. "We are the lucky ones" as if they have survived something or are proud to be alive. "Dance me into the night Underneath the full moon shining so bright Turning me into the light" As if she is taking about the way she wants it to be when she finally has to die. "Turning me into the light" Some people say the dying see a bright white light when they die.
"Time dancers whirling past I gaze through the looking glass And feel just beyond my grasp is heaven" Time - Age. She mentions heaven which is pretty literal I guess. "Sacred geometry Where movement is poetry Visions of you and me forever" Not forgetting that special someone when they/you die. "Let the dark waltz begin" Accepting death. Dark - melencholy.
Ok, So thats how I enterperated the song - like I said I may be wrong but its a guess :) Lovely song.
i couldn't agree more, i listen too the music and the words and i envisage the last dance you will ever make, to waltz with death himself.<br /> <br /> "we are the lucky ones" suggests we who are left behind but also those who have passed on, i think probably the later when you take other lyrics into consideration<br /> <br /> "we shine like a thousand suns" represents the soul brightness of the soul<br /> <br /> "when all the colours run together" colours represent the world of the living which no longer has meaning to the dancer.<br /> <br /> "Ill keep you company" your partner for the dance<br /> <br /> "In one glorious harmony" not certain but think it might represent losing the restraints of life to be in harmony with everything<br /> <br /> "waltzing with destiny forever" to enter into the eternal after life<br /> <br /> <br /> "dance me into the night" says i am ready let us begin the dance<br /> <br /> "underneath the full moon shining so bright" the moon represents the end of the day/end of the life<br /> <br /> "Turning me into the light" taking me to heaven<br /> <br /> "Time dancers whirling past" represents those left behind for whom time still has meaning<br /> <br /> "I gaze through the looking glass" the glass represents the barrier between life and death seeing those left behind.<br /> <br /> "And feel just beyond my grasp is heaven" means you can't move on while you hold on to what you left behind<br /> <br /> "Sacred geometry" represents seeing the plan of the universe<br /> <br /> "Where movement is poetry" where everything flows exactly as its supposed<br /> <br /> "Visions of you and me forever" Knowing that we will be together again forever.<br /> <br /> "Dance me into the night<br /> Underneath the full moon shining so bright<br /> Turning me into the light<br /> <br /> Dance me into the night<br /> Underneath the full moon shining so bright" repeated same as before but now without reservation<br /> <br /> "Let the dark waltz begin" so what are we waiting for let get going<br /> <br /> "Oh let me wheel - let me spin" denotes excitement about what is happening<br /> <br /> "Let it take me again" represent giving yourself over<br /> <br /> "Turning me into the light" Death leads us in dance to heaven.<br /> <br /> <br /> combine this with the music itself and you really get the sense of someone giving them self over to Death, dancing with him to heaven till you slowly disappear.
I'd like to offer my interpretation:
The song identifies "We are the lucky ones..." as not just being independent and alive, but able to find one another and completely fall in love "...as our colors run together."
and this discovered personal happiness makes for commitment, "I'll keep you company... "
"Time dancers whirling..." hints she feels the fleeting moments of these limited intimate encounters
and nothing competes - heaven is only made more conceivable by her heavenly contentment here on earth with him.
"Sacred geometry where movement is..." expresses her physical fulfillment in the arms of her lover.
"Dance me into the..." describes the beautiful and emotional transformation that she experiences with him.
But then, why the title, "The Dark Waltz?" It makes sense if you assume something else is at play. Could she be the other woman, or is she a Hatfield and he's a McCoy, or is she a Muslim and he a Westerner, or they are in some other similar predicament? Then things start making more sense. It is a clandestine and dark waltz (engagement) because certain facts that are an intricate part of their lives preclude disclosure of their love. Yet, in spite of what is wrong, she proclaims that "We are the lucky ones," because of what has happened between them. Obviously, love between two individuals does not cure all outside ills so the untenable dark side looms in the form of the institution of marriage, family feud, religious dogma, or whatever it is that is considered beyond resolution.
Haley Westenra beautifully and clearly sings these lyrics in a manner that I noted as hauntingly seductive and as perhaps an apt description of this not so uncommon relationship dilemma.
No comments geez this is a fabulous song that makes me shiver when i hear it
This song is beautiful and it is sinister. I think it could have been written by someone who was suffering from bipolar affective disorder or manic depression. People with the bipolar gene are said to be sensitive and artistic and creative and very colourful. We are the lucky ones, we shine like a thousand suns. But then the mania gets too intense and the colours all run together.. like Van Gogh cutting off his ear.<br /> The mood swings keep people company, in one glorious harmony, waltzing with destiny forever because they are very impulsive and don't plan their lives logically and rationally, like other people do.<br /> The mania always cycles into depression and so the bipolar gene dances him or her into the night, under the romantic full moon, and then turns her back towards the light. And so she will be taken through the cycle again and again by the chemicals dancing in her head. <br /> Depression is dark as night but mania is ecstasy, heaven just beyond the grasp, sacred visions and poetry. This song could be about intense moods, and the desire of the person to be taken again, on the dark waltz from the blazing of a thousand suns to the moonlit night where death steals up behind her. Or is it about drugs?
This is a darkly beautiful song. It makes you want to close your eyes and imagine.
Hayley westenra rocks. Period. Song is hauntingly beautiful. Makes me wish i could waltz in a forest while listening to this.
Actually, I'm always thinking that this song is more about vampires than anything else when I hear it. Makes me think of a Castlevania movie or the like.
"We are the lucky ones We shine like a thousand suns When all the colors run together"
Kind of hints at the whole immortality mind set. Also, it brings the idea of seduction through imagery.
"I'll keep you company In one glorious harmony Waltzing with destiny forever"
Again, this brings to mind the idea of seduction and immortality, as if things are never going to end.
"Dance me into the night Underneath the full moon shining so bright Turning me into the light"
More than anything, this is what makes me think of a vampiristic nature in the song. The notion of dancing in the night underneath a full moon is the biggest reasoning for my thoughts when hearing the song. The full moon not only signifies the idea that the "Dark Waltz" is something attractive, but oddly sinister as well.
"Time dances whirling past I gaze through the looking glass And feel just beyond my grasp is heaven"
Another part of the song which makes me heavily lean towards a vampiristic nature in the song. The never ending passing of time and the inability, no matter how hard you try, to reach Heaven suggests an undead state.
"Sacred geometry Where movement is poetry Visions of you and me forever"
This is more a reference to the movements of the dance, but the latter part hints once again at immortality or a never ending state.
"Dance me into the night Underneath the full moon shining so bright Let the dark waltz begin Oh let me wheel - let me spin Let it take me again Turning me into the light"
All in all, I believe the song to lean at something sinister yet attractive at the same time. I'm not into the whole "vampire scene", whatever it is called, but that is the vision I get when I listen to the song.
I think of a person's love who has been turned into a vampire, without their knowledge, and they stumble upon them in a ballroom. Not knowing what has happened, the person embraces their love, who begins to sing this song seductively, almost as a hint, and they begin to dance. At the end, they are both now vampires.
The lyrics remind me strongly me of the black and white circa 1950 horror movie, "Carnival of Souls." In this movie, Candice Hillgloss and two of her friends drag race with a car of young men, only to plunge into a moonlit river. Candice alone emerges from the river, not dead, yet not fully alive. On a road trip the next night to take her first job as church organist, a ghoulish male figure begins to haunt her. Eventually, the figure lures her to a mesmerizing merry-go-round in a long defunct theme park. The merry-go-round becomes alive with ghoulish revelers. Ultimately, she joins the revelers in a whirling waltz with the male ghoul, dying, and leaving only her footprints behind.
This one has always struck me as a very 'Phantom of the Opera' reminiscent piece -- oddly, with shades of 'Alice in Wonderland' thrown in, given 'I gaze through the looking glass', (though, it could simply be the feel of Victoriana).
The narrator is opening herself up to what is most definitely a seduction with a darker undercurrent. Hades and Persephone, in a sense.
Hauntingly beautiful.
DARK WALTZ [I think the title of the song can be translated as: "A romantic dance of life with the one I love".
[Basically when they die they will feel a love that surpasses the love they have now - she is dreaming of the afterlife together with a guy she likes]
2.
[She is basically envisioning the afterlife with the one she is in love with still]
3.
[She is in the earthly world now. The first two verses were only dreams. Now she wishes to perform the "dark waltz of life" with the one she loves. She is asking him whether he will accept her as his "dancing partner" (lover). Either that, or she is talking to herself and is not courageous enough to confess to him.]
4.
[She is envisioning her death now as well as her romance with the one she loves.]
5.
[She is taking comfort in nature because it seems to suggest that there really is an afterlife and that it must be wonderful.]
Chorus
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//There is a few spiritual enlightenment metaphors in this song. The song seems to dwell on the burdens of the physical world. The woman is feeling hope that through death she will find the pure love and peace that she seeks. She also wishes to experience the love and passion of this world with someone so that she does not succumb to loneliness possibly and she looks forward to the greater love she can share with this person after death. She seems to jump the gun though as she hasn't even confessed to him it seems (unless this song counts as a confession, but why should she say it so often unless he refused her and she is having a mental breakdown). Perhaps she is just a dreamer. Shame :)
I think this song is about denial and how lovely the world can be when you avoid the daylight. "We are the lucky ones... all our colors run together" implies to me the groupthink that happens in dysfunctional families and the false sense of connection and comradery. Throughout the whole song, there is little mention of why the waltz is 'dark' and why the melody is so sad. The whole thing escalates towards more longing to be "turning into the light" - a light far superior to daylight. Just like in Phantom this person is under the enchantment of denial whispering that the dark can be treated as "light" and fulfill the same purpose. The phrase "turning into the light" is emphasized more than once. There is only one stanza that hints at why the song is sad and dark - "Time dancers moving past, I look through the looking glass" and she finds heaven (or fulfillment) is out of reach. Alice's looking glass was a mirror (quite symbolically a dream). Dreams are the mirrors to the soul and when people are in denial they never really "look in the mirror" or address the truth about them and the dance they are dancing. I love that the song is sang sweetly and lovingly and yet has this undercurrent of sorrow. To me that is what it is to be in denial, unable to find truth and healing, yet dancing on as if everything were normal.
That's my take :)