"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 won't find me here
the place that you expected me to be
in my bed on the 2nd floor
I'm outside your house
I'm closing in on you
and all the times you smiled
you said hello and thought i was ok
i was planning your final struggle
[chorus]
but when you wake up ill be there
when you see me you'll be on your back again
when you, when you, when you, when you
know your already dead
you'll love me too
you will find me here
the place you least expected me to be
breaking through your basement window
I'm outside your house
i can hear you breathe
and all the times you laughed
you shook my hand and thought i was your friend
i was planning your tragic ending
[chorus]
you look down on me, with eyes of endless tragedy
try and stop the pain
but there's never closure
find your soul and see what you could have
BREAK!
with your love for me
your addictions buried deep
from your find a way into the darkness
[chorus]
the place that you expected me to be
in my bed on the 2nd floor
I'm outside your house
I'm closing in on you
and all the times you smiled
you said hello and thought i was ok
i was planning your final struggle
[chorus]
but when you wake up ill be there
when you see me you'll be on your back again
when you, when you, when you, when you
know your already dead
you'll love me too
you will find me here
the place you least expected me to be
breaking through your basement window
I'm outside your house
i can hear you breathe
and all the times you laughed
you shook my hand and thought i was your friend
i was planning your tragic ending
[chorus]
you look down on me, with eyes of endless tragedy
try and stop the pain
but there's never closure
find your soul and see what you could have
BREAK!
with your love for me
your addictions buried deep
from your find a way into the darkness
[chorus]
Lyrics submitted by briansexgod
Already Dead Lyrics as written by Neil Boshart Joshua Bradford
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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and thoes lyrics on wrong for the new discovering the waterfron cd. its:
"you wont find me here the place that you expected me to be in my bed on the 2nd floor i'm inside your house i'm closing in on you and all the times you smiled you said hello and thought i was ok i was planning your final struggle
but when you wake up ill be there when you see me you'll be on your back again when you, when you, when you, when you know your already dead you'll love me too
you will find me here the place you least expected me to be breaking through your basement window i'm outside your room i can hear you breathe and all the times you laughed you shook my hand and thought i was your friend i was planning your tragic ending
but when you wake up ill be there when you see me you'll be on your back again when you, when you, when you, when you know your already dead you'll love me too
you'll look down on me, with eyes of endless tragedy try and stop the pain, but there's never closure find your solace in what you could have been
when they look for me, the evidence is buried deep try to guide the way into the darkness
but when you wake up ill be there when you see me you'll be on your back again when you, when you, when you, when you know your already dead you'll love me too looking down on me through eyes that never stop crying looking down on me, will you ever look away?"