"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.
the last thing i wanna do right now is read your stupid poetry
why cant you just tell me what you really wanna say?
you'd clear your conscience with words so weak and empty
but something in your eyes gave you away
and i've been lonely like a silhouette or a serenade
a heart attack or a man betrayed
the arms of love are holding me like a silhouette or a serenade
is this all you have to say this broken boy would hang on every word
you tell me that you need me while i slowly fall apart
you'd heal your heart ache with words so cool and callous
but the absence of your tears gave you away
and i've been lonely like a silhouette or a serenade
a heart attack or a man betrayed
the arms of love are holding me like a silhouette or a serenade
and all pretty poems have to end
so i say this before i leave
if words are your weapons my dear i surrender, surrender
and i've been lonely like a silhouette or a serenade
a heart attack or a man betrayed
the arms of love are holding me to you
why cant you just tell me what you really wanna say?
you'd clear your conscience with words so weak and empty
but something in your eyes gave you away
and i've been lonely like a silhouette or a serenade
a heart attack or a man betrayed
the arms of love are holding me like a silhouette or a serenade
is this all you have to say this broken boy would hang on every word
you tell me that you need me while i slowly fall apart
you'd heal your heart ache with words so cool and callous
but the absence of your tears gave you away
and i've been lonely like a silhouette or a serenade
a heart attack or a man betrayed
the arms of love are holding me like a silhouette or a serenade
and all pretty poems have to end
so i say this before i leave
if words are your weapons my dear i surrender, surrender
and i've been lonely like a silhouette or a serenade
a heart attack or a man betrayed
the arms of love are holding me to you
Lyrics submitted by sleepingxin
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