"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 never thought any of this would break
It was a good dream
It's not easy trying to wake
I never thought we'd end up here this way
Then again, I don't think too much
About anything I say
About anything I say
Life was hard and the walk was far
It didn't matter then
Every wrong turn we made
And the price we paid
It didn't matter then
I know it's been hard to wait so long on a miracle
But wasn't it good to feel so strong and invincible
I never thought any of this would break
We built it so carefully
It would weather any quake
I don't know how far we'll fall
But anymore I don't know too much about anything at all
Anything at all
Life was hard and the walk was far
It didn't matter then
Every wrong turn we made
And the price we paid
It didn't matter then
I know it's been hard to wait so long on a miracle
But wasn't it good to feel so strong and invincible
Things are different now
And it's a wild world
Here's to waking up
When it was painful
Here's to living again
This isn't the way it was supposed to end
I couldn't blame you
For walking out now
I'm kinda tired, too
But I thought that somehow
We could hold up the sky
I guess this means
I never thought any of this would break
It was a good dream it's not easy trying to wake
Easy trying to wake
Life was hard and the walk was far
It didn't matter then
Every wrong turn we made
And the price we paid
It didn't matter then
I know it's been hard to wait so long on a miracle
But wasn't it good to feel so strong and invincible
Life was hard and the walk was far
It didn't matter then
Every wrong turn we made
And the price we paid
It didn't matter then
I know it's been hard to wait so long on a miracle
But wasn't it good to feel so strong and invincible
It was a good dream
It's not easy trying to wake
I never thought we'd end up here this way
Then again, I don't think too much
About anything I say
About anything I say
Life was hard and the walk was far
It didn't matter then
Every wrong turn we made
And the price we paid
It didn't matter then
I know it's been hard to wait so long on a miracle
But wasn't it good to feel so strong and invincible
I never thought any of this would break
We built it so carefully
It would weather any quake
I don't know how far we'll fall
But anymore I don't know too much about anything at all
Anything at all
Life was hard and the walk was far
It didn't matter then
Every wrong turn we made
And the price we paid
It didn't matter then
I know it's been hard to wait so long on a miracle
But wasn't it good to feel so strong and invincible
Things are different now
And it's a wild world
Here's to waking up
When it was painful
Here's to living again
This isn't the way it was supposed to end
I couldn't blame you
For walking out now
I'm kinda tired, too
But I thought that somehow
We could hold up the sky
I guess this means
I never thought any of this would break
It was a good dream it's not easy trying to wake
Easy trying to wake
Life was hard and the walk was far
It didn't matter then
Every wrong turn we made
And the price we paid
It didn't matter then
I know it's been hard to wait so long on a miracle
But wasn't it good to feel so strong and invincible
Life was hard and the walk was far
It didn't matter then
Every wrong turn we made
And the price we paid
It didn't matter then
I know it's been hard to wait so long on a miracle
But wasn't it good to feel so strong and invincible
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Invincible Lyrics as written by Lashawn Daniels Mischke Butler
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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