"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 break your promises
there's no common sense
in understanding you (x2)
your hardly ever there
you live in a state of disrepair
and i must admit
i'm wrong for ever thinking you were here
you patronise yourself
you think you are somebody else
and i've never heard
you say the words i'm sorry or i'm wrong
'we' is a word that you not allowed to use
we were one but now it's only you
you break your promises
there's no common sense
in understanding you (x2)
what about your family
little sarah and abby
do you think they'll be alright
when their mother is overseas
you can pretend to shine
but inside your out of time
and if your heart would never beat again
i wouldn't even blink
'we' is a word that you not allowed to use
we were one but now it's only you
you've been causing mostly unhappiness
you think only about your stupid self
you've thrown it all away
your own family
and you're feeling higher
than you've ever been
you break your promises
there's no common sense
in understanding you (x2)
there's no common sense
in understanding you (x2)
your hardly ever there
you live in a state of disrepair
and i must admit
i'm wrong for ever thinking you were here
you patronise yourself
you think you are somebody else
and i've never heard
you say the words i'm sorry or i'm wrong
'we' is a word that you not allowed to use
we were one but now it's only you
you break your promises
there's no common sense
in understanding you (x2)
what about your family
little sarah and abby
do you think they'll be alright
when their mother is overseas
you can pretend to shine
but inside your out of time
and if your heart would never beat again
i wouldn't even blink
'we' is a word that you not allowed to use
we were one but now it's only you
you've been causing mostly unhappiness
you think only about your stupid self
you've thrown it all away
your own family
and you're feeling higher
than you've ever been
you break your promises
there's no common sense
in understanding you (x2)
Lyrics submitted by skad4lyf
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you suck
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