"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.
Sometimes I feel
Like I wanna leave this place for good
Under the ground
I'll live down there without a sound
And never hear these hissing voices all the same
I'll disappear 'cause living makes me feel ashamed
I must believe
There's more above us and below
I must believe
Stranded with this bitch called hope
It keeps me here
When all I wanna do is go
It keeps me here
When all I wanna do is disappear
If this is it
All we have and ever will
If this is it
Time is running out, I'm standing still
I leave today
'Cause there's nothing left to keep me here
I'll fade away
I'll turn my back and disappear
The city moans
And lunges up right from the ground
The seething earth
It opens up and spits us out
This vicious child
Nature never wanted us
This vicious child
A cancer burning black into its heart
If this is it
All we have and ever will
If this is it
Time is running out, I'm standing still
I leave today
'Cause there's nothing left to keep me here
I'll fade away
I'll turn my back and disappear
Sometimes I feel
Like I wanna leave this place for good
Under the ground
I'll live down there without a sound
And never hear these hissing voices all the same
I'll disappear 'cause living makes me feel ashamed
If this is it
All we have and ever will
If this is it
Time is running out, I'm standing still
I leave today
'Cause there's nothing left to keep me here
I'll fade away
I'll turn my back and disappear
I'll turn my back, I'll disappear
Like I wanna leave this place for good
Under the ground
I'll live down there without a sound
And never hear these hissing voices all the same
I'll disappear 'cause living makes me feel ashamed
I must believe
There's more above us and below
I must believe
Stranded with this bitch called hope
It keeps me here
When all I wanna do is go
It keeps me here
When all I wanna do is disappear
If this is it
All we have and ever will
If this is it
Time is running out, I'm standing still
I leave today
'Cause there's nothing left to keep me here
I'll fade away
I'll turn my back and disappear
The city moans
And lunges up right from the ground
The seething earth
It opens up and spits us out
This vicious child
Nature never wanted us
This vicious child
A cancer burning black into its heart
If this is it
All we have and ever will
If this is it
Time is running out, I'm standing still
I leave today
'Cause there's nothing left to keep me here
I'll fade away
I'll turn my back and disappear
Sometimes I feel
Like I wanna leave this place for good
Under the ground
I'll live down there without a sound
And never hear these hissing voices all the same
I'll disappear 'cause living makes me feel ashamed
If this is it
All we have and ever will
If this is it
Time is running out, I'm standing still
I leave today
'Cause there's nothing left to keep me here
I'll fade away
I'll turn my back and disappear
I'll turn my back, I'll disappear
Lyrics submitted by WhiteJasmine
Above and Below Lyrics as written by Samuel Bingham Endicott
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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:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Everybody’s talking about how it’s about suicide which I believe that’s obvious, but if this song doesn’t already have a meeting that I’m just not aware of then what I would say about the “I must believe there is above and below”(if that’s what he says I’m not 100% but I’m pretty sure that’s about what he says) I believe maybe he grew up in a Christian family or something and was being forced to believe in Christianity against his own will this is a theory that I haven’t seen anybody talk about also, all of the replies are from 2008(before I was born.. not to make anybody sound old lol but that’s kind of a long time ago) but I’m like 99% sure that this song is about suicide and if not, I have no idea what else it could be about but I believe there’s some other deeper reading behind it as well because the lyric about the “I must believe there is above and below” really sticks out to me, and somewhat similar things are repeated throughout this song so honestly, I think it’s a little bit more than just suicide, but I think that’s the main story of this song.(also, here’s a little side story for anybody who is interested I had my Alexa playing random songs and this song popped up. It instantly reminded me of another songs that I really like so I listened through and honestly I’m in love with this song now. Too bad that everybody who was a fan of this song doesn’t seem to acknowledge it anymore which is quite sad because it’s a really good song. It deserved a lot better than what it got it just got deserted and abandoned after few years… by the way, yes I know it’s a little bit more than a few years. The song is like 15 years old, but still really sad and they didn’t deserve to just go like that but anyways, just this song stuck out to me and I know nobody’s gonna read this because nobody’s active on this website and especially not on this song but I just kind of wanted to write this because I’m bored and I don’t know what else to do. If you ever find this then try and look for one of my socials and remind me it’s like my username look for Emberwolf online I have most social, so try and find me