"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.
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
The moon, beautiful
The sun, even more beautiful
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Beautiful
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
The moon, beautiful
The sun, even more beautiful
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Beautiful
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Lyrics submitted by Boonechic_21
Oh Yeah Lyrics as written by Dieter Meier Boris Blank
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
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i think this song is about having sex with asian girls!!! and has a real simon & garfunkel meets William Orbit feel to it, with a great melocholic thread happening to it!!! BEST SONG EVA!!! IN MY FAMILY OF 5 BROTHERS AND 9 SISTERS WE REFER TO THIS BAND AS OL' YELLA
It's the song that made duffman great!
Duffman can't breathe, oooh yeah!!
duffman can not die, only the actors that play him can!, o yeh! lol awesome
This song is about admiring how beautiful the moon is. But this song is also about admiring how the sun is even more beautiful. and the singer wants to show you that they acknowledge that these two astral bodies are beautiful by saying Oh yeah. It would appear that this band measures the beauty of astrological objects by their size and brightness. You could probably infer that with the empirical data gathered from this song that the earth is more beautiful than the moon, but it is not as beautiful as the sun.
how the hell did u get asian girls, i think u out of ur mind
pshhh... the moon is white (white girls)and the sun is yellow (asian girls)
i get asian girls with asian cooking BOB yummy!
This song is played at the end of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
It was also used in Butterfinger commercials, so most people who grew up in the 90s probably think of Butterfingers when they hear this song. lol
OHHH YEAAAH LOVE THIS SONG CHIC CHICA CHICAAAAAAAA