"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.
[Intro]
Baby baby I miss you I need you here with me my life is incomplete how I
long to see your face I miss your pretty smile without you theirs no me.
[Chorus]
Tell me how can I move on show me how to carry on when your no longer
there and tell me how can I be strong when my happiness is gone if your
no longer there.
[Verse]
I close my eyes and let the rain fall from the sky and wish that I had
never ever made you cry regardless of what circumstances be you kept
your word and your promise to always honor me so what I gotta do to make
this uyp to you hopw can I make you feel the love that I still have from
you did I lose your trust did I lose my mind did I lose the gift the
lord sent me from the sky I guess that you can say I kinda went to far
played my selfious little games and broke your heart into a million
pieces when you laid there and cried and all that I can do say I'm sorry
I lied remember when I told you that the day that I die I want you to be
the only one there by my side you have been my happiness my best friend
my everything and even though my word means nothing ill be there till
the end
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
How can I be strong knowing now that your gone I remenise in the days
you use to hold me in your arms shed tears every night something I've
never done before the life of a player wasn't worth losing my girl
you're my world and I need you id do anything to see your face over
again I lost more than just a friend till the end I will love you will
never be replaced the emptiness inside me lived in this of happiness
tell me how can I move on its like living a sad song just to here you
breathe or the sound of your voice you were the light in life I was
afraid to let you go the days go by don't want to live no more if I
could touch you one last time show me a sign ill be there i hold my head
down cause your no longer there but I know you in the heavens looking
down on me how could the sweetest girl in the world be taken from me.
[Outro]
Baby baby I miss you I need you here with me my life is incomplete how I
long to see your face I miss your pretty smile without you theirs no me.
[Chorus]
Baby baby I miss you I need you here with me my life is incomplete how I
long to see your face I miss your pretty smile without you theirs no me.
[Chorus]
Tell me how can I move on show me how to carry on when your no longer
there and tell me how can I be strong when my happiness is gone if your
no longer there.
[Verse]
I close my eyes and let the rain fall from the sky and wish that I had
never ever made you cry regardless of what circumstances be you kept
your word and your promise to always honor me so what I gotta do to make
this uyp to you hopw can I make you feel the love that I still have from
you did I lose your trust did I lose my mind did I lose the gift the
lord sent me from the sky I guess that you can say I kinda went to far
played my selfious little games and broke your heart into a million
pieces when you laid there and cried and all that I can do say I'm sorry
I lied remember when I told you that the day that I die I want you to be
the only one there by my side you have been my happiness my best friend
my everything and even though my word means nothing ill be there till
the end
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
How can I be strong knowing now that your gone I remenise in the days
you use to hold me in your arms shed tears every night something I've
never done before the life of a player wasn't worth losing my girl
you're my world and I need you id do anything to see your face over
again I lost more than just a friend till the end I will love you will
never be replaced the emptiness inside me lived in this of happiness
tell me how can I move on its like living a sad song just to here you
breathe or the sound of your voice you were the light in life I was
afraid to let you go the days go by don't want to live no more if I
could touch you one last time show me a sign ill be there i hold my head
down cause your no longer there but I know you in the heavens looking
down on me how could the sweetest girl in the world be taken from me.
[Outro]
Baby baby I miss you I need you here with me my life is incomplete how I
long to see your face I miss your pretty smile without you theirs no me.
[Chorus]
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