"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.
you get back here
you do it slowly
do it calm, now
don't be so angry
i've got something
i've been chasing
every day since i started walking
it just sits there
in the distance
always flirts with the tips of my fingers
and you thought that
you could love it
til it touched you,
and now you just wanna stop it
well i'm sorry
it's not likely
it was here when you got here
and it'll be here when you're not here no more
then some days
i get lucky
i can focus
and things are less shakey
and i scrape you
off the pale moon
and i slip you
into soft shoes
and you tap dance
to a jazz band
on a cruise ship
off near an island
your hairs up
you wear a short dress
and a wide smile
your movements are careless
it's a day dream
i've been having
to make the clocks move
while i'm working
or a bad joke
i can't sit through
but i smile cause i feel like i have to
but if you'd look under the table
you'd see i'm playing with my knife
i'm slicing stripes into my kneecaps
and struggling just to come off polite
and we could be a snapshot
framed, and hung like a portrait
and what if that's true,
and i'm the only one who knows it?
and we could be a snapshot
framed, and hung like a portrait
and what if that's true,
and i'm the only one who knows it?
you do it slowly
do it calm, now
don't be so angry
i've got something
i've been chasing
every day since i started walking
it just sits there
in the distance
always flirts with the tips of my fingers
and you thought that
you could love it
til it touched you,
and now you just wanna stop it
well i'm sorry
it's not likely
it was here when you got here
and it'll be here when you're not here no more
then some days
i get lucky
i can focus
and things are less shakey
and i scrape you
off the pale moon
and i slip you
into soft shoes
and you tap dance
to a jazz band
on a cruise ship
off near an island
your hairs up
you wear a short dress
and a wide smile
your movements are careless
it's a day dream
i've been having
to make the clocks move
while i'm working
or a bad joke
i can't sit through
but i smile cause i feel like i have to
but if you'd look under the table
you'd see i'm playing with my knife
i'm slicing stripes into my kneecaps
and struggling just to come off polite
and we could be a snapshot
framed, and hung like a portrait
and what if that's true,
and i'm the only one who knows it?
and we could be a snapshot
framed, and hung like a portrait
and what if that's true,
and i'm the only one who knows it?
Lyrics submitted by makeartnotmath
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