"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.
点と点をつなぐように
線を描く指がなぞるのは
私の来た道 それとも行き先
線と線を結ぶ二人
やがてみんな海に辿り着き
ひとつになるから 怖くないけれど
いくつもの河を流れ
わけも聞かずに
与えられた名前とともに
全てを受け入れるなんて しなくていいよ
私たちの痛みが今飛び立った
剣と剣がぶつかり合う音を
知る為に託された剣じゃないよ
そんな矛盾で 誰を守れるの
何度も姿を変えて 私の前に
舞い降りたあなたを 今日は探してる
どこでも受け入れられようと しないでいいよ
自分らしさというツルギを皆授かった
時には流れを変えて 何も持たずに
与えられた名前とともに
全てを受け入れるなんて しなくていいよ
潮風に向かい 鳥たちが今飛び立った
線を描く指がなぞるのは
私の来た道 それとも行き先
線と線を結ぶ二人
やがてみんな海に辿り着き
ひとつになるから 怖くないけれど
いくつもの河を流れ
わけも聞かずに
与えられた名前とともに
全てを受け入れるなんて しなくていいよ
私たちの痛みが今飛び立った
剣と剣がぶつかり合う音を
知る為に託された剣じゃないよ
そんな矛盾で 誰を守れるの
何度も姿を変えて 私の前に
舞い降りたあなたを 今日は探してる
どこでも受け入れられようと しないでいいよ
自分らしさというツルギを皆授かった
時には流れを変えて 何も持たずに
与えられた名前とともに
全てを受け入れるなんて しなくていいよ
潮風に向かい 鳥たちが今飛び立った
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Hi there everybody! I just wanted to say, what I think this song is about. Although I've read a slightly different translation, all in all it's the same.
There is some kind of intro to Deep River... I've seen it somewhere on youtube, but it's probably been taken down by now ... Hikki talks about how parents love their children, because the children resemble the parents so much. And then the song starts ...
"My finger draws a line Between two points Those points are the road I’ve walked so far and my destination"
That's about life, kinda seen from above.
"The two of us are joing two points Eventually we’ll reach the sea and become one Though I’m not afraid…"
That's about when two people meet each other and their lives get intertwined. "We'll reach the sea and become one" ... to become one is definitely about having a child.
"We flow down many rivers without asking for a why We don’t have to accept everything We're as free as the names we were given Now the pain flies away"
That's so true. People live their lives without questioning it. You don't have to accept everything, because life isn't always fair. We are all independent individuals - we're free. I still think the last line is about death ...
"This sword hasn’t been entrusted to us So that we can hear the sound of one sword striking another Who can we protect with such a contradiction?"
It's like Spiderman: "with great power comes great responsibility". lol. With "this sword" Hikkis means individuality. We weren't born and blessed with the ability to think so that we could kill each other or kill the earth. We have to love and appriciate it all.
"I’m searching today For you, who changed your form so many times Before you descended before me We don’t need to try To be accepted anywhere We have all been blessed with a sword of individuality"
In a way we were always searching for the people we met. We all meet coincidental, nothing is predetermined (at least I don't think so). The person you meet (probably Hikki means the love of your life) has lived for some time and has changed form many times (fx. from baby to teenager to adult) before your meet him/her.
"There are times where the rivers flow changes Without carrying anything with it We don’t have to accept everything We're as free as the names we were given Now the birds fly away with the seabreeze"
Again, life isn't always fair, so you don't have to accept it. You're free to change your life.
"Now the birds fly away with the seabreeze" ... that's about end of life.
I love this song! At first, I thought it was about someone loving someone. now, I think it's about someone who loves someone, but like a river, your love can change for that person. A river won't always be the same. rivers changes, just like love
"Oh oh, sometimes the river flow changes You don't have to accept everything Oh oh, with the name you're given Without having anything. The birds facing against the Sea breeze just flew away"