"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.
Digging slowly flowers growing beautiful from inside me
Overlooking misrepresentation of my findings
How we gonna come back to this
How we ever gonna make a match to this
Lets lay low like a mattress
They'll just be another one after this
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
You could never fill these shoes, cause I refuse to lose
I'm just ordinary me
Digging slowly flowers growing beautiful from inside me
Overlooking misrepresentation of my findings
How we gonna come back to this
How we ever gonna make a match to this
Lets lay low like a mattress
They'll just be another one after this
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
You could never fill these shoes, cause I refuse to lose
I'm just ordinary me
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
I'm prepared to let this go to let everyone know
I'm just ordinary me
Growin' up as an adolescent
So full of those questions got me second guessin'
My mind with the message and the mention of my
Progression class is in session
How long will we all keep guessin'
When you've never been it's so evident from your grumbling
Man I wonder when we'll talk
If you want to talk take the mask off we can rock
Shake it off shake it off shake it off
One you can't make me feel this way
Two you won't make me run away
You can't understand my chemistry
So laugh if that makes me ordinary
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
And you could never fill these shoes, cause I refuse to lose
I'm just ordinary me
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
I'm prepared to let this go to let everyone know
I'm just ordinary me
One you can't make me feel this way
Two you won't make me run away
You can't understand my chemistry
So laugh if that makes me ordinary
One you can't make me feel this way
Two you won't make me run away
You can't understand my chemistry
So laugh if that makes me ordinary
Overlooking misrepresentation of my findings
How we gonna come back to this
How we ever gonna make a match to this
Lets lay low like a mattress
They'll just be another one after this
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
You could never fill these shoes, cause I refuse to lose
I'm just ordinary me
Digging slowly flowers growing beautiful from inside me
Overlooking misrepresentation of my findings
How we gonna come back to this
How we ever gonna make a match to this
Lets lay low like a mattress
They'll just be another one after this
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
You could never fill these shoes, cause I refuse to lose
I'm just ordinary me
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
I'm prepared to let this go to let everyone know
I'm just ordinary me
Growin' up as an adolescent
So full of those questions got me second guessin'
My mind with the message and the mention of my
Progression class is in session
How long will we all keep guessin'
When you've never been it's so evident from your grumbling
Man I wonder when we'll talk
If you want to talk take the mask off we can rock
Shake it off shake it off shake it off
One you can't make me feel this way
Two you won't make me run away
You can't understand my chemistry
So laugh if that makes me ordinary
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
And you could never fill these shoes, cause I refuse to lose
I'm just ordinary me
You could never stop this feelin' I've got inside of me
I'm prepared to let this go to let everyone know
I'm just ordinary me
One you can't make me feel this way
Two you won't make me run away
You can't understand my chemistry
So laugh if that makes me ordinary
One you can't make me feel this way
Two you won't make me run away
You can't understand my chemistry
So laugh if that makes me ordinary
Lyrics submitted by Super_devil
Ordinary Lyrics as written by Jon Bon Jovi Billy Falcon
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Capitol CMG Publishing
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ya i agree with Matthew15 but expanding on that it more as he's saying that even though he seems like the perfect person or like some sort of amazing person, don't know exactly how to say it but you get the picture dont you? amyways even though he seems that way he is just an ordinary guy, just like us, with questions and hopes and fears, and all that kind of stuff