"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.
The motorway won't take a horse
The wanderer has found a course to follow
The traveller unpacked his bags for the last time
The troubadour cut off his hand and now he wants mine
Oh no, not me.
The circus girl fell off her horse and now she's paralysed
The hitchiker was bound and gagged, raped on the roadside
The libertine is locked in jail
The pirate sunk and broke his sail
But I still have to go
I've got to go, so here i go
I'm going to run the risk of being free
The magicians secrets all revealed
And the preachers lies are all concealed
And all our heroes lack any conviction
They shout through the bars of cliche and addiction
So i've got to go
I've got to go, so here i go
I'm going to run the risk of being free
And in this drought of truth and invention
Whoever shouts the loudest gets the most attention
So we pass the mic and they've got nothing to say except:
"Bow down, bow down, bow down to your god"
Then we hit the floor
And make ourselves and idol to bow before,
Well i can't
And i won't
Bow down
Anymore.
No more
The wanderer has found a course to follow
The traveller unpacked his bags for the last time
The troubadour cut off his hand and now he wants mine
Oh no, not me.
The circus girl fell off her horse and now she's paralysed
The hitchiker was bound and gagged, raped on the roadside
The libertine is locked in jail
The pirate sunk and broke his sail
But I still have to go
I've got to go, so here i go
I'm going to run the risk of being free
The magicians secrets all revealed
And the preachers lies are all concealed
And all our heroes lack any conviction
They shout through the bars of cliche and addiction
So i've got to go
I've got to go, so here i go
I'm going to run the risk of being free
And in this drought of truth and invention
Whoever shouts the loudest gets the most attention
So we pass the mic and they've got nothing to say except:
"Bow down, bow down, bow down to your god"
Then we hit the floor
And make ourselves and idol to bow before,
Well i can't
And i won't
Bow down
Anymore.
No more
Lyrics submitted by neptunes666
The Libertine Lyrics as written by Patrick Wolf
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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:
"I had all and then most of you"
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Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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Great version of a great song,
How no one has commented on this song, I don't know. It's probably the most main-stream Patrick Wolf song but it just kicks so much arse.
How someone can combine classical folk with electronica and some gothic imagery a la Tom Waits or Jeff Buckley I have no clue. But it sounds so fucking good.
I like the ending. The perfect atheist's anthem on first glance, but it's referring to all the crap that fills the airwaves these days. Patrick is saying he's not going to fall into that category and is going to be a libertine, rebel against the majority and do his own thing. I admire him for that. :)
I love when the strong beat comes in after the intro.
Fucking amazing song.
well patrick wolf is hot!
this is my favorite part of the song:
The magicians secrets all revealed. And the preachers lies are all concealed. And all our heroes lack any conviction. They shout through the bars of cliche and addiction.
So I've got to go, I've got to go, so here I go I'm gonna run the risk of being free.
And in this drought of truth and invention, whooever shouts the loudest gets the most attention, so we pass the mic and they've got nothing to say except:
Bow down, bow down, bow down to your god.
Then we hit the floor, and make ourselves and idol to bow before.
Well I can't, And I won't Bow down, Anymore...
No more.
basically the whole second half
I absolutely love this song. Wind in the Wires is easily my favorite album from Patrick. This song is so beautifully haunting and yet it stil has an amazing beat. I think I can honestly say that I have never heard a Patrick Wolf song that i didn't like.
i always thought it was "the traveller unpacked his bags full of lost time" but i guess not. xD
this song and bluebells are both so dark and kind of creepy, and then you listen to the magic position and you're like WHAT good good good song
As in.. he's going to try and bring good music back to the charts. I heard he was moderately successful with this.
I love this song to no end.
Nice song, especially about the synth string part just after the end of the refrain. Interesting words, but not that much, honestly :-/. It's all about the same story: be free, no god, etc..
it is a very mainstream song, but people who dislike mainstream music because its mainstream are just as lame as people who like it for the same reason
like music because it moves you, or is good, or brings back memories, but not because it is popular, or obscure.
that being said,
its a great song, and has some intresting imagery, but i think it is a bit cliche.
the musical part is great, its in a minor key, but manages not to sound overly dark while in it. i like it
I agree about the mainstream thing.
Oh wow.. I just heard this song... it's awesome... and I agree with Yttrium.. don't like a song or a band because your friend does or because it's mainstream.. music is a way of life now.. bands and singers write music that moves them and hopes it moves the fans just as much.