"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.
I've got an antisocial habit
you'd think I'm from another planet
am I here too soon
to inhabit you
Am i taking you for granted
'cause that's not the way i planned it
why do I act the way I do
I act like a fool
My eyesight is blinded by the sunlight
but i know it makes me feel right
when I'm standing next to you
If everything I said to you was true
I know what it takes to
why can't I say what I want to
I know what it takes to
I've got a antisocial habit
you'd think I'm from another planet
am I here too soon
to inhabit you
I can't go on in life deceiving
don't know what I believe in
but I know what I should do
I know what it takes to
I know how to take you
I know that it takes two
This will go nowhere, why bother
still live with my mom and father
when I'm with you I am not myself, I'm half a man
far too lost for you to find me
wasted like the early nineties
oh you, only you can bring me back to earth
you'd think I'm from another planet
am I here too soon
to inhabit you
Am i taking you for granted
'cause that's not the way i planned it
why do I act the way I do
I act like a fool
My eyesight is blinded by the sunlight
but i know it makes me feel right
when I'm standing next to you
If everything I said to you was true
I know what it takes to
why can't I say what I want to
I know what it takes to
I've got a antisocial habit
you'd think I'm from another planet
am I here too soon
to inhabit you
I can't go on in life deceiving
don't know what I believe in
but I know what I should do
I know what it takes to
I know how to take you
I know that it takes two
This will go nowhere, why bother
still live with my mom and father
when I'm with you I am not myself, I'm half a man
far too lost for you to find me
wasted like the early nineties
oh you, only you can bring me back to earth
Lyrics submitted by Saves The Day 47
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