"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.
adies and gentlemen
Show your appreciation for Jonny Sniper!
(Okay, Jonny, let's go!)
Rise, taste the air
Lock and load, pull the trigger
Climb to new heights
And tell me, tell me what you hear
A whisper from the wind
And I can't help but listen
It warns us of disaster
And I can't help but wonder
Can anyone hear the same distress call?
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
(Okay, Jonny, lock and load)
This is all I need to feel alive
(Remember now, aim small, miss small)
The crashing of white waves
And I can't help but listen, oh
The screaming of the Earth
And I can't help but
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
And this is all I need to feel alive, oh yeah
("Hey Jonny!") This is all I need to feel alive
"Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!"
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
Show your appreciation for Jonny Sniper!
(Okay, Jonny, let's go!)
Rise, taste the air
Lock and load, pull the trigger
Climb to new heights
And tell me, tell me what you hear
A whisper from the wind
And I can't help but listen
It warns us of disaster
And I can't help but wonder
Can anyone hear the same distress call?
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
(Okay, Jonny, lock and load)
This is all I need to feel alive
(Remember now, aim small, miss small)
The crashing of white waves
And I can't help but listen, oh
The screaming of the Earth
And I can't help but
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
And this is all I need to feel alive, oh yeah
("Hey Jonny!") This is all I need to feel alive
"Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!
Way to save the world!"
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
So this is a quest to save the world
And he'll always be here for another
Another day, another chance to rescue
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
This is all I need to feel alive
Lyrics submitted by Deadlysinners
Jonny Sniper Lyrics as written by Chris Batten Roughton Reynolds
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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(Painting A Picture Of Myself) And I'll always be here for another. Over and over and I'll always be here.
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