Present only on the UK and Japanese editions of the album, this song lets the door open to many interpretations. However, as in some other songs from HTDAAB it certainly has a reference to Bob Hewson’s death and the feelings it stirred in Bono: “All I want is a picture of you/ All I want is to get right next to you”. Bono often said in interviews that after his father’s death he drank a lot, and this could explain the sentence “I take a pill to stop it”. But the song is also seen as political orientated because of the sentence “they’re in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb”, that could refer to the American presence in Iraq because of the WOMD.
Click here to download the guitar tab for Fast Cars
My cell is ringing
No ID
I need to know who’s calling
My garden’s overgrown
I go out on my belly crawling
I got CCTV, pornography, CNBC
I got the nightly news
To get to know the enemy
All I want is a picture of you
All I want is to get right next to you
All I want is your face in a locket
Picture in my pocket
I take a pill to stop it
I know these fast cars
Will do me no good
I’m going nowhere
Where I am it is a lot of fun
They’re in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch them channel hop
Check the stocks
I’m in detox
I want the lot of what you’ve got
If what you’ve got can make this stop
All I want is a picture of you
All I want is to be right next to you
All I want is your picture in a locket
Your face in my pocket
Take a pill to stop it
I know these fast cars
Will do me no good
Don’t you worry about your mind
Don’t you worry about your mind
Don’t you worry about your mind
Don’t you worry about your mind
You should worry about the day
That the pain it goes away
You know I miss mine sometimes
There is no fiction
That will truly fit the situation
I’m documenting every detail
Every conversation
I’m not used to talking to somebody in their body
Look, there’s somebody in a body, somebody in a body
Subpages: