"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.
Starin' at the broke street light,
Some of those lonely nights,
I didn't know if we would make it through.
Stayin' up 'til 5 AM,
Watchin' the sun come up again,
I'd do it all again if i could.
So if I call will you be there?
I miss the nights we used to share
Up on the rooftop,
Listening to punk rock,
Nobody believed that,
This could be our one shot,
That was all we had
The nights that we wasted,
Got us through the days that,
Seemed never ending,
Always in a haze but,
We just didn't care
No, we just didn't care
The only place that we could go,
Starin' at a world we didn't know,
Wondering if this was all we had.
40 ounce, intoxicated dreams,
All our faded memories,
That's what made us who we are today.
So if I call will you be there?
(If I call will you be there?)
I miss the nights we used to share
Up on the rooftop,
Listening to punk rock,
Nobody believed that,
This could be our one shot,
That was all we had
The nights that we wasted,
Got us through the days that,
Seemed never ending,
Always in a haze but,
We just didn't care
No, we just didn't care
All these nights,
Left alone,
Is what made us
All these nights,
Left alone,
Is what made us
What made us
Up on the rooftop,
Listening to punk rock,
Nobody believed that,
This could be our one shot,
That was all we had
Up on the rooftop,
Listening to punk rock,
Nobody believed that,
This could be our one shot,
That was all we had
The nights that we wasted,
Got us through the days that,
Seemed never ending,
Always in a haze but,
We just didn't care
No, we just didn't care
Some of those lonely nights,
I didn't know if we would make it through.
Stayin' up 'til 5 AM,
Watchin' the sun come up again,
I'd do it all again if i could.
So if I call will you be there?
I miss the nights we used to share
Up on the rooftop,
Listening to punk rock,
Nobody believed that,
This could be our one shot,
That was all we had
The nights that we wasted,
Got us through the days that,
Seemed never ending,
Always in a haze but,
We just didn't care
No, we just didn't care
The only place that we could go,
Starin' at a world we didn't know,
Wondering if this was all we had.
40 ounce, intoxicated dreams,
All our faded memories,
That's what made us who we are today.
So if I call will you be there?
(If I call will you be there?)
I miss the nights we used to share
Up on the rooftop,
Listening to punk rock,
Nobody believed that,
This could be our one shot,
That was all we had
The nights that we wasted,
Got us through the days that,
Seemed never ending,
Always in a haze but,
We just didn't care
No, we just didn't care
All these nights,
Left alone,
Is what made us
All these nights,
Left alone,
Is what made us
What made us
Up on the rooftop,
Listening to punk rock,
Nobody believed that,
This could be our one shot,
That was all we had
Up on the rooftop,
Listening to punk rock,
Nobody believed that,
This could be our one shot,
That was all we had
The nights that we wasted,
Got us through the days that,
Seemed never ending,
Always in a haze but,
We just didn't care
No, we just didn't care
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