"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.
Cellophane flowers never happened for me
I've been sleeping the day off, watching the night fall, covering nowhere
Filling my timeshare
There's a woman in the mirror in a fiery state
As she motions to me, I start turning a way
And she's lifting her dress up,
Trying to keep up
Oh, you'd be surprised!
How we race
While our lives
Erased
Another alone on an everyday night
Thinking the morning, looking for alright, warming blood flow with poison
I don't know why
Maybe the rain will stop following me
Dripping the colors, running the daylight, over the cloudburst
Hoping I don't burst
Right before my eyes!
Erased our lives
Erased
We know we're lost, we're lost, we're nowhere now
We know we're lost, we're lost, we're nowhere now
Now we know we're lost lost in nowhere now
Maybe the rain'll stop following me
With millions of colors reflected in daylight
Right on the kick drum
Turning the sound up, oh!
(Our lives) Another alone on an everyday night
I think in the morning I think I'll be alright (Erased)
Watching the blood flow
No wonder I don't know why (Our lives)
There's a woman in the mirror in a fiery state
She motions to me, I start pulling away (Erased)
She's lifting her dress up
All the way up, oh!
Don't look surprised
Erased
Our lives
Erased
Our lives
Erased
I've been sleeping the day off, watching the night fall, covering nowhere
Filling my timeshare
There's a woman in the mirror in a fiery state
As she motions to me, I start turning a way
And she's lifting her dress up,
Trying to keep up
Oh, you'd be surprised!
How we race
While our lives
Erased
Another alone on an everyday night
Thinking the morning, looking for alright, warming blood flow with poison
I don't know why
Maybe the rain will stop following me
Dripping the colors, running the daylight, over the cloudburst
Hoping I don't burst
Right before my eyes!
Erased our lives
Erased
We know we're lost, we're lost, we're nowhere now
We know we're lost, we're lost, we're nowhere now
Now we know we're lost lost in nowhere now
Maybe the rain'll stop following me
With millions of colors reflected in daylight
Right on the kick drum
Turning the sound up, oh!
(Our lives) Another alone on an everyday night
I think in the morning I think I'll be alright (Erased)
Watching the blood flow
No wonder I don't know why (Our lives)
There's a woman in the mirror in a fiery state
She motions to me, I start pulling away (Erased)
She's lifting her dress up
All the way up, oh!
Don't look surprised
Erased
Our lives
Erased
Our lives
Erased
Lyrics submitted by RaineBM1185
Nowhere Again Lyrics as written by Brandon Curtis Benjamin David Curtis
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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