"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.
Try to remember
Try to forget
Try to remember
Look back try to remember
That name sounds so familiar
Sue these letters are driving me crazy
They're driving me so fucking crazy
They're making me so angry
Bradley to remember
Bradley so familiar
One more year do something
Make something from nothing
Sue these letters are driving me crazy
They're driving me so fucking crazy
They're making me so angry
Mom, these letters at christmas
Are driving me crazy
I must be crazy - why?
Don't get it, I'm crazy - why?
Tried to remember what you said
Sounds so familiar what you said
My life is mine, it's mine
I'm gonna take it back
My life it's mine, it's mine
I want it back
Try to forget
Try to remember
Look back try to remember
That name sounds so familiar
Sue these letters are driving me crazy
They're driving me so fucking crazy
They're making me so angry
Bradley to remember
Bradley so familiar
One more year do something
Make something from nothing
Sue these letters are driving me crazy
They're driving me so fucking crazy
They're making me so angry
Mom, these letters at christmas
Are driving me crazy
I must be crazy - why?
Don't get it, I'm crazy - why?
Tried to remember what you said
Sounds so familiar what you said
My life is mine, it's mine
I'm gonna take it back
My life it's mine, it's mine
I want it back
Lyrics submitted by _XCoalChamberX_
Bradley Lyrics as written by Miguel Rascon Bradley James Fafara
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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