"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.
my pockets are full and theyre
weighing me down and im
getting frustraited i hear you
speak without hearing a sound
my eyes are dialated i feel like
running now i feel like hiding
now i feel like getting away to a
far away place but i dont know how
its not fun now
i wanna scream but i cant seem
to talk and i wanna scream but
i cant seem to walk cant seem
to figure out what it is about the
way that i feel but i wanna feel this
way again and i wanna go back
to where i just came from
dont wanna be in this place
where i am i wanna go back
back back and i feel like running
now i feel like hiding out now i feel
like getting away to a far away
place but i dont know how
but its not fun now
weighing me down and im
getting frustraited i hear you
speak without hearing a sound
my eyes are dialated i feel like
running now i feel like hiding
now i feel like getting away to a
far away place but i dont know how
its not fun now
i wanna scream but i cant seem
to talk and i wanna scream but
i cant seem to walk cant seem
to figure out what it is about the
way that i feel but i wanna feel this
way again and i wanna go back
to where i just came from
dont wanna be in this place
where i am i wanna go back
back back and i feel like running
now i feel like hiding out now i feel
like getting away to a far away
place but i dont know how
but its not fun now
Lyrics submitted by sarah216
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