"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.
back then
we wished that we were older
waiting for the summer
everything was new, when everything was fun
she would come over and slip into the water
i wonder if she knew that she was the one, everybody wanted,
every night she haunted us in our dreams then you wake up all alone
all's fair in love and war, til it feels like you're dying alone
Tears turn to waterfalls but I I'd taste tears over nothing at all
now, we wish that we were younger
that feeling of the hunger, to want to try everything and anything we want
frustration and the anger, never thinking of the danger or how we'd make it through
never thinking someone won't
all's fair in love and war, til it feels like you're dying alone
tears turn to waterfalls but I'd taste tears over nothing at all
the fun never ends
fun never ends,
the fun never ends
til you bury a friend, til you bury a friend, til you bury a friend
now, we wish that we were younger
that feeling of the hunger, to want to try everything and anything we want
frustration and the anger, never thinking of the danger,
or how we'd make it through
never thinking someone won't
all's fair in love and war, til it feels like you're dying alone
tears turn to waterfalls but I'd taste tears over nothing at all
fun never ends ... fun never ends ... fun never ends
til you bury a friend, bury a friend, bury a friend
til you bury a friend, bury a friend, bury a friend
til you bury a friend, bury a friend, bury a friend
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Ok so I think this song is about a group of friends, and one of them is a girl that the others all were in love with..in particular him...when they were young they all did things together and couldnt wait to grow up and do all these exciting things...now, the group is older, and the girl has died - they want to be younger again, when they never even thought about the possibility that one of them would die, he wonders if she even realised they all loved her....and it hurts alot now that she has gone - but hed rather have known and loved her than not had that at all...even if he never got her in the end.
Really nice song...kinda grows on you more and more as you listen to it - the beginning actually really reminds me of Tonic.
Great song! I'd say it's about growing up and the feeling of invincibility that you have when you're young but how that illusion gets shattered when someone you know (who's young) dies and the feeling of shock that hits you. The atmospherics of this song are incredible makes me think of those beautiful summer nights driving around town around sunset and late at night. Song's probably my favorite off of Tonight And Forever.