"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.
Don’t panic we will get out
Is that what this is about
Know that I’ve heard this before
from you
You can’t be patient right now
I’m thinking maybe that’s how
you got to be so stressed
This has gone on for too long
I don’t know what’s going on
Stop saying that this won’t end
again
You’ve never been one to not
Do what you say and it caught
Me by surprise when you said
please take me away
please take me away
Sure I would say this town has seen better days
It is so bad even the ghosts would say
It’s getting so boring, why do we stay?
We haven’t had problems since we came
The menace in your voice sounds
Like murder and I’m about
To be the one who tells you
to stop
You could start by trusting me
It’s you that is not happy
It wasn’t always that way
But let’s get back to the point
Which is that I don’t enjoy
Having to argue with you
these days
And maybe someday you’ll learn
Or we could never return
To this place but then you’d win
please take me away
please take me away
Sure I would say this town has seen better days
It is so bad even the ghosts would say
It’s getting so boring, why do we stay?
We haven’t had problems since we came
I never thought it would get like this
I never really thought it would get like this
please take me away
Is that what this is about
Know that I’ve heard this before
from you
You can’t be patient right now
I’m thinking maybe that’s how
you got to be so stressed
This has gone on for too long
I don’t know what’s going on
Stop saying that this won’t end
again
You’ve never been one to not
Do what you say and it caught
Me by surprise when you said
please take me away
please take me away
Sure I would say this town has seen better days
It is so bad even the ghosts would say
It’s getting so boring, why do we stay?
We haven’t had problems since we came
The menace in your voice sounds
Like murder and I’m about
To be the one who tells you
to stop
You could start by trusting me
It’s you that is not happy
It wasn’t always that way
But let’s get back to the point
Which is that I don’t enjoy
Having to argue with you
these days
And maybe someday you’ll learn
Or we could never return
To this place but then you’d win
please take me away
please take me away
Sure I would say this town has seen better days
It is so bad even the ghosts would say
It’s getting so boring, why do we stay?
We haven’t had problems since we came
I never thought it would get like this
I never really thought it would get like this
please take me away
Lyrics submitted by blinxbcr
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