"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, I love this house, I love this house
Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known
Oh, I love to hear those conquers fall
Smash them on in suffolk stone.
And I love that here you live with me
Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known
Cos I've been too long a lonely man
Yes I've been too long a rolling stone.
So let seasons turn
Grow paradise Garden
And to my mind reassure
The native has returned.
I love the curling of your hair
Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known
I see Dylan Thomas in your face
Recite Butler Yeats now in your grace.
So let seasons turn
Grow paradise Garden
And to my mind reassure
The native has returned.
And if I had to die today
Scatter my ashes on displace
And I'll live on in your beating heart
But truth, I didn't heed a heart.
This is the greatest peace I've ever known
Oh, the greatest peace I've ever known
Oh, the greatest peace I've ever known
Only love makes house a home.
Home.
Home.
Home.
This house is home.
Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known
Oh, I love to hear those conquers fall
Smash them on in suffolk stone.
And I love that here you live with me
Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known
Cos I've been too long a lonely man
Yes I've been too long a rolling stone.
So let seasons turn
Grow paradise Garden
And to my mind reassure
The native has returned.
I love the curling of your hair
Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known
I see Dylan Thomas in your face
Recite Butler Yeats now in your grace.
So let seasons turn
Grow paradise Garden
And to my mind reassure
The native has returned.
And if I had to die today
Scatter my ashes on displace
And I'll live on in your beating heart
But truth, I didn't heed a heart.
This is the greatest peace I've ever known
Oh, the greatest peace I've ever known
Oh, the greatest peace I've ever known
Only love makes house a home.
Home.
Home.
Home.
This house is home.
Lyrics submitted by guilhermemorais, edited by EmilyP
House Lyrics as written by Patrick Wolf
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I think many lyrics didn't make sense, here is a more accurate version:
Oh I love this House, I love this House Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known Oh I love to hear those conkers fall Smash'em on an Southwark* stone
And I love that here you live with me Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known Cause I've been too long a lonely man Yes I've been too long a rolling stone
So let seasons turn Grow paradise garden And to my migration The native has returned
Oh I love the curling of your hair Gives me the greatest peace I've ever known I see Dylan Thomas in your face Reciting Butler Yeats in your grace Your grace, your grace
So let seasons turn Grow paradise garden And to my migration The native has returned
Returned Returned
And if I had to die today Scatter my ashes on this place And I live on in your grieving heart But until that day that we depart
Oh this is the greatest peace I've ever known Oh the greatest peace I've ever known Oh the greatest peace I've ever known Only love makes House a home
Home Home Home
This House is home Home
This is the greatest peace I've ever known Oh, the greatest peace I've ever known Oh, the greatest peace I've ever known Only love makes house a home.
Home. Home. Home. This house is home.
found that in patrick wolf's official fan board
It's amazing how full of love and happiness these Lupercalia songs are. Such a warm song. I hope Patrick stays happy, it's such a change.
Definitely about grounding yourself, and moving on from being a "rolling stone", or a restless person seeking adventures left and right. Love brings the greatest peace, and contempt, and without it, we wouldn't have a place to call "home"; somewhere where we can always go when times are rough, or we just want to rejuvenate, and be filled with love.