"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.
Sometimes I wonder what’s wrong with you anyway
There’s nothing and no-one you like and who likes you the way I do
But the way I do
Is not the way you want me to
And the only way out is the only way in to the things you despise
And the things you despise
Are the things
That other people like
Sometimes I wonder what you will become when you’ve run out of people to love
Sometimes I wonder what you will become
When there’s nothing and no-one to love
And you’re running round town with a fistful of money
That you got from a hole in the wall and it’s funny that you
You didn’t see it there before
You’re with a man on the piss and a man on a mission
And a man of respect and exalted position
He is not like
He’s not like those other men
Sometimes I wonder what I will become
When I’ve run out of people to love
Sometimes I wonder what I will become
When there’s nothing and no-one to love
And you can’t spend your whole life hanging round with arseholes
And you know that I am never coming back
There’s nothing and no-one you like and who likes you the way I do
But the way I do
Is not the way you want me to
And the only way out is the only way in to the things you despise
And the things you despise
Are the things
That other people like
Sometimes I wonder what you will become when you’ve run out of people to love
Sometimes I wonder what you will become
When there’s nothing and no-one to love
And you’re running round town with a fistful of money
That you got from a hole in the wall and it’s funny that you
You didn’t see it there before
You’re with a man on the piss and a man on a mission
And a man of respect and exalted position
He is not like
He’s not like those other men
Sometimes I wonder what I will become
When I’ve run out of people to love
Sometimes I wonder what I will become
When there’s nothing and no-one to love
And you can’t spend your whole life hanging round with arseholes
And you know that I am never coming back
Lyrics submitted by CitizenErased
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Great version of a great song,
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Do you ever here a song and think, either "this song could be about me" or "this song could have been written by me about someone I know"?
Personally, it's the latter...
Such a sad song, isn't it?
I was thinking I was the former. Such an awesome song.