"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.
How does it feel when it comes down to yourself?
And how does it feel when you look back on your life?
And tell me how does it feel when it comes down to yourself
How does it feel as you try to close your eyes?
And how does it feel when it comes down to yourself?
Does it feel like a freight-train running fast down upon your fragile life?
Tell me how does it feel when it comes down to yourself?
Because now no more I feel pain inside as I try to close my eyes
But no
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
"Cause I've never had nothing much to say
I just struggle for belief in such a hectic place
Something to believe, in life again to pick me up from my distraction
Be that loving friend
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
Sudcide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
'Cause I've never had nothing much to say
I just strugglefor belief in such a hectic place
Something to believe in, in life again to pick me up from my distraction
Be that loving friend
But no, you never fuckin' came
So I just take it like a needle in the arm
Like a slap on the ass from you mother's cold hand
Down bleeding wreckage of the lonly
Who have lost all hope and will to live
To love, to care, to feel anything
So I just take it like a needle in the arm
Like a slap on the ass from you mother's cold hand
Down bleeding the wreckage of the lonely
Who have lost all hope and all will to live
To love, to care, to feel anything
All along it was a lie
A foolish, foolish man
Because I believed in you
You said it's ok, that everything's ok, but it's not
You said it's ok, that everything's ok, but it's not
You said it's ok, that everything's ok, but it's not
You said it's ok, that everything is A ok, but it's not
But it's not
But it's not
But it's not
But it's not
It's all a question of what you believe in
Right or wrong
But it's not!
And how does it feel when you look back on your life?
And tell me how does it feel when it comes down to yourself
How does it feel as you try to close your eyes?
And how does it feel when it comes down to yourself?
Does it feel like a freight-train running fast down upon your fragile life?
Tell me how does it feel when it comes down to yourself?
Because now no more I feel pain inside as I try to close my eyes
But no
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
"Cause I've never had nothing much to say
I just struggle for belief in such a hectic place
Something to believe, in life again to pick me up from my distraction
Be that loving friend
Suicide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
Sudcide or submission it's a problem a condition
Suicide or submission it's a statement my decision
'Cause I've never had nothing much to say
I just strugglefor belief in such a hectic place
Something to believe in, in life again to pick me up from my distraction
Be that loving friend
But no, you never fuckin' came
So I just take it like a needle in the arm
Like a slap on the ass from you mother's cold hand
Down bleeding wreckage of the lonly
Who have lost all hope and will to live
To love, to care, to feel anything
So I just take it like a needle in the arm
Like a slap on the ass from you mother's cold hand
Down bleeding the wreckage of the lonely
Who have lost all hope and all will to live
To love, to care, to feel anything
All along it was a lie
A foolish, foolish man
Because I believed in you
You said it's ok, that everything's ok, but it's not
You said it's ok, that everything's ok, but it's not
You said it's ok, that everything's ok, but it's not
You said it's ok, that everything is A ok, but it's not
But it's not
But it's not
But it's not
But it's not
It's all a question of what you believe in
Right or wrong
But it's not!
Lyrics submitted by richd-3
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