"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.
So much fun is in a broken bottle
On the drive at night
So daddy froze froze froze on an old stool
I'm cryin' in the corner at 5
Well I've seen black
And I've seen blue
But fine line's I don't see
And just because I am in misery
It don't mean a thing
That I wanna know
That I wanna know
[Chorus]
Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said about you
September thought that she remembers
They don't teach humility
And just because they're always signaling Mayday
It don't mean a thing
That she's faired love
And she's seen war
But fairness she don't see
And just because she is in misery
It don't mean a thing
That she wants to know
That she wants to know
[Chorus]
Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said too.
But comroderie old
Doin' what I'm told
And everybody knows
This is getting out of hand
Everybody is dying for
The chance to be heard, not ignored
And everybody knows
This is getting out of hand
(Chorus)
Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said too
I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna
I ain't goin' to school
I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna
I'm not goin' to school
On the drive at night
So daddy froze froze froze on an old stool
I'm cryin' in the corner at 5
Well I've seen black
And I've seen blue
But fine line's I don't see
And just because I am in misery
It don't mean a thing
That I wanna know
That I wanna know
[Chorus]
Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said about you
September thought that she remembers
They don't teach humility
And just because they're always signaling Mayday
It don't mean a thing
That she's faired love
And she's seen war
But fairness she don't see
And just because she is in misery
It don't mean a thing
That she wants to know
That she wants to know
[Chorus]
Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said too.
But comroderie old
Doin' what I'm told
And everybody knows
This is getting out of hand
Everybody is dying for
The chance to be heard, not ignored
And everybody knows
This is getting out of hand
(Chorus)
Graduation Day, Graduation Day
We take back everything we said too
I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna
I ain't goin' to school
I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna
I'm not goin' to school
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Graduation Day Lyrics as written by Daryl Palumbo
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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