"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 do what he says
But I end up falling off the edge
I don't know what to do
Never seems to end up being true
Seeps in underneath the door
Slinks in and stains the floor
I don't know what to feel
Takes so long for these wounds to heal
Tell me it's not really real
Fallen through
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, alibies
That you said
Left me holding on by the last thread
Stop, stare, and watch me burn
Someday it will be your turn
Can't fool me, I can see
All the things that you don't want me to see
You threw my heart away
That's the price that I paid
I know it's never fair
Promised me you'd always be there
But you never really cared
Fallen through
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, allibies
That you said
Left me holding on by the last thread
Fallen through
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, allibies
That you said
Left me holding on by the last thread
Fallen through
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, allibies
That you said
Left me holding on by the last thread
But I end up falling off the edge
I don't know what to do
Never seems to end up being true
Seeps in underneath the door
Slinks in and stains the floor
I don't know what to feel
Takes so long for these wounds to heal
Tell me it's not really real
Fallen through
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, alibies
That you said
Left me holding on by the last thread
Stop, stare, and watch me burn
Someday it will be your turn
Can't fool me, I can see
All the things that you don't want me to see
You threw my heart away
That's the price that I paid
I know it's never fair
Promised me you'd always be there
But you never really cared
Fallen through
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, allibies
That you said
Left me holding on by the last thread
Fallen through
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, allibies
That you said
Left me holding on by the last thread
Fallen through
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, allibies
That you said
Left me holding on by the last thread
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Great version of a great song,
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omg... in SO many ways i can relate... To put it MY way...I know it's not right, but a girl that likes some guy and he knows it and abuses that power by making her slave over him. Now she's getting over him and she saying"Can't fool me, I can see all the things that you don't want me to see" that part is like, 'You can't fool me. I see that you don't really like me' xoxo, Arynn