"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.
Maybe in another life
I could find you there
Pulled away before your time
I can't deal it's so unfair
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
Heaven's so far away.
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
the world has grown cold
Now that you've gone away
Leaving flowers on your grave
To Show that I still care
black roses and hail marys
Can't bring back what's taken from me
I reach to the sky
And call out your name
and if I could trade
I would
And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it stings
Yeah it stings now
The world is so cold
Now that you've gone away
I could find you there
Pulled away before your time
I can't deal it's so unfair
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
Heaven's so far away.
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
the world has grown cold
Now that you've gone away
Leaving flowers on your grave
To Show that I still care
black roses and hail marys
Can't bring back what's taken from me
I reach to the sky
And call out your name
and if I could trade
I would
And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it stings
Yeah it stings now
The world is so cold
Now that you've gone away
Lyrics submitted by sawg
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*Hugs.You gave him some happy years.He is in a place waiting to tell you that when it's your time.I'm sorry for what you went through.Your story made me cry.God bless<3 This song has a special memory for me too.
@livedreamincolor Sad to hear :( I hope nearly 3 years later things are easier.
@livedreamincolor \r\nSame thing happened to me ..\r\nMy soul mate passed last May 2021 \r\nI tried so hard for 6 years to keep him off hard drugs ..\r\nHe just passed May 2021 \r\nSame story you have .\r\nSorry and sad \r\nThanks for sharing :(\r\n
this is a damn good song... one off Offsprings best I think. great if you've lost someone. it's songs like this that make me love music as much as i do.
At first I thought it was him singing about a girl "gone away", like just in general, and he misses her.
But having read the lyrics now..and reading it's about how his wife died...It's really fuckin sad. You can feel the pain and love he has for her in this song. It just sounds like missing someone. I don't know, it's insane. The lyrics are as equally depressing as the instrumental tonality.
"Maybe in another life I could find you there" ^That's one of the saddest lines I think I've ever read, anywhere. Guy just feels lost, you can tell. I wish I could write something so simple with so much meaning. I grew up listening to the Offspring, I didn't really remember this song until they started playing it on the radio recently. They really have talent..
One of my best friends died when we were just kids...ever since then I searched for an outlet for my emotions...then I found this song. This song was my therapy...it's very powerful, and I wish I could thank the band personally for writing it.
this song blows me away. it is just an amazing song especially if you have lost someone. and the offspring have alot of songs about loss surprisingly. who died?
@FROST17 I believe it was his wife who died.
I've gotten inside this song. I've played it, I can sing it, its a great song, very deep, one of my favorites by them. The true meaning is, Dexter wrote this after his girlfriend died in a car crash :/
I've gotten inside this song. I've played it, I can sing it, its a great song, very deep, one of my favorites by them. The true meaning is, Dexter wrote this after his girlfriend died in a car crash :/
so sad, but so beautiful
Technically, I heard Dexter wrote it when his father dies, but then again, Im not sure
this song is so good, you can really feel the emotion when dexter sings it.