"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.
finding a way for my words to be spoken
I never thought our front teeth could be broken
all of the joy when I dream has been stolen
I fell right through a trap door that I opened
and there's no way
that you'll turn your body away
I'll blow away
if you take your body away
and when there's a hole in my head
you kiss me instead
and the demons fall down dancing around my bed
and the sky won't turn red
when you're in the bed
so stay stay stay
sell your soul to me
this way I know you belong to me
sell your soul to me
this way I know you belong to me
sell your soul to me
I'm missing without you
too many times I've let love pass
driving further away but I'm all out of gas
never did I think I'd find you
so I sit down and write these words in tribute
don't push it away these words are sincere
since you, my everyday has been so clear
I thank you for everything I truly do
with this song please carry on
and I'll be here thinking of you
(chorus)
cus this time I finally got it figured out
I'm missing without you
in tribute we stand
I'm missing without you
I never thought our front teeth could be broken
all of the joy when I dream has been stolen
I fell right through a trap door that I opened
and there's no way
that you'll turn your body away
I'll blow away
if you take your body away
and when there's a hole in my head
you kiss me instead
and the demons fall down dancing around my bed
and the sky won't turn red
when you're in the bed
so stay stay stay
sell your soul to me
this way I know you belong to me
sell your soul to me
this way I know you belong to me
sell your soul to me
I'm missing without you
too many times I've let love pass
driving further away but I'm all out of gas
never did I think I'd find you
so I sit down and write these words in tribute
don't push it away these words are sincere
since you, my everyday has been so clear
I thank you for everything I truly do
with this song please carry on
and I'll be here thinking of you
(chorus)
cus this time I finally got it figured out
I'm missing without you
in tribute we stand
I'm missing without you
Lyrics submitted by hollyhox1120
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