"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.
Being faced with what I'm faced with I feel like I can't rock
Like a rock hit my heart
Started to chain the day and exploded into pieces
Marry me, stay the same
Lie to me and try to say you never will
Marry me, stay the same
Lie to me and try to tell me
I've got a feeling in my gut, now fills me with so much hope
Said fuck it, I'm fine, dine and dashed
The pianist peddled into morning, morning
Marry me, stay the same
Lie to me and try to say you never will
Marry me, stay the same
Lie to me and try to say you never
Morning, morning
Being faced with what I'm faced with I feel like I can't rock
Like a rock hit my heart
Started to chain the day and exploded into pieces
Pieces
Pieces
Pieces
Pieces (being faced with what I'm faced with I feel)
Pieces (like I can't rock)
Pieces (like a rock hit my heart)
Pieces (started to chain the day and exploded into pieces)
One, two, three, four
As of now, I'm down straight up
And I can turn to the box for some peace
Or a box for a piece
Or a box for a smoke
But they're all going to choke me
As of now, I'm down straight up
And I can turn to the box for some peace
Or a box for a piece
Or a box for a smoke
But they're all going to choke me
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
Enough in a way that I'll probably say you destroyed me
It's like a fucking drug deal
I'm sitting here waiting
I'm calling you back
And you won't call me back
And it's fucked up
But at the same time it just made me want you even worse
For a while, I was cleaner than now
Then I started to destroy myself
With the things that I love, now the things that I hate
Until it finally broke me
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
Enough in a way that I'll probably say you destroyed me
Fuck my ass now
Fuck my ass now
Choke me
Choke me
Choke me
Choke me
Choke me
As of now I'm down straight up
And I can turn to the box for some peace
Or a box for a piece
Or a box for some smokes
But they're all going to choke me
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
Enough in a way that I'll probably say you destroyed me
Like a rock hit my heart
Started to chain the day and exploded into pieces
Marry me, stay the same
Lie to me and try to say you never will
Marry me, stay the same
Lie to me and try to tell me
I've got a feeling in my gut, now fills me with so much hope
Said fuck it, I'm fine, dine and dashed
The pianist peddled into morning, morning
Marry me, stay the same
Lie to me and try to say you never will
Marry me, stay the same
Lie to me and try to say you never
Morning, morning
Being faced with what I'm faced with I feel like I can't rock
Like a rock hit my heart
Started to chain the day and exploded into pieces
Pieces
Pieces
Pieces
Pieces (being faced with what I'm faced with I feel)
Pieces (like I can't rock)
Pieces (like a rock hit my heart)
Pieces (started to chain the day and exploded into pieces)
One, two, three, four
As of now, I'm down straight up
And I can turn to the box for some peace
Or a box for a piece
Or a box for a smoke
But they're all going to choke me
As of now, I'm down straight up
And I can turn to the box for some peace
Or a box for a piece
Or a box for a smoke
But they're all going to choke me
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
Enough in a way that I'll probably say you destroyed me
It's like a fucking drug deal
I'm sitting here waiting
I'm calling you back
And you won't call me back
And it's fucked up
But at the same time it just made me want you even worse
For a while, I was cleaner than now
Then I started to destroy myself
With the things that I love, now the things that I hate
Until it finally broke me
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
Enough in a way that I'll probably say you destroyed me
Fuck my ass now
Fuck my ass now
Choke me
Choke me
Choke me
Choke me
Choke me
As of now I'm down straight up
And I can turn to the box for some peace
Or a box for a piece
Or a box for some smokes
But they're all going to choke me
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
You're so crazy
Enough in a way that I'll probably say you destroyed me
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My wife and I used this song for our wedding in vegas. It was perfect for us.
ok so maybe it does sound exactly like it... leave me alone... shut up!
sounds like this kid loves this girl so much that he wants everything to stay the same forever
I think this song has alot of meaning to its lyrics the best part s when they are panting..lol...Anywyas its a pretty deep song.....i like it
holy fuck. this cd is so beautiful. i cant even handle it. every song.. is just incredible.
i think this song is about this guy who loves his girl but he knows they are gonna break apart and he doesnt want it to happen and because he feels this way he thinks everything is falling down at his feet and say marry me stay the same is his way of saying dont leave alone i just want things to be the way they were before... and hes gonna try ot make it better but cant and tried to swallow the truth (said fuck it im fine) but in all hes just trying to prepare him self for a big let-down
i think this song means.......that love and marriage are bowlshit! Marry me............stay the same......lie to me ad ty to tell me you NEVER will! relationships are a crock of shit, and that is what this song i about, this is only my opinion, and coud be becusemy boyfriend just fucked me over!!!!ERRR!!!!!!
I like the song and all, I mean... What could be cooler? But the lyrics here, and the song I been listenin' to sound nothing alike.
i think fingereleven is right and i wish everything would stay the same forever and my life would slow down
I think this song represents bert's ideal relationship and how he felt when it hit him that there is NO ideal relationship