"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.
Death keeps calling me, she's gonna set me free
No more
Sunshine sidewalk streets or misery
Like she did for you
Oh Allen how you suffered
Lower east-side apartment
We stayed up late
The bones inside your mind where all
Broken
And the keys that opened any answers were all stolen
Filling and refilling up the glass with makers
We both agreed
The Final Moment!
The sweetest remedy to ever be delivered!
Heaven or heavenless we're all headed for the same sweet darkness
So she came for you, well I guess you wanted her to
Now in the
Safety of a coffin rest you're through
No more debts or memories
No more heart blood or skin on teeth
Final dosage to set you free
Heaven or heavenless we're all headed for the same sweet darkness
No more
Sunshine sidewalk streets or misery
Like she did for you
Oh Allen how you suffered
Lower east-side apartment
We stayed up late
The bones inside your mind where all
Broken
And the keys that opened any answers were all stolen
Filling and refilling up the glass with makers
We both agreed
The Final Moment!
The sweetest remedy to ever be delivered!
Heaven or heavenless we're all headed for the same sweet darkness
So she came for you, well I guess you wanted her to
Now in the
Safety of a coffin rest you're through
No more debts or memories
No more heart blood or skin on teeth
Final dosage to set you free
Heaven or heavenless we're all headed for the same sweet darkness
Lyrics submitted by SameOldStory
Makers Lyrics as written by Rocky Votolato
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i have a question of understanding, as english is not my mother tongue: what exactly is or are "makers"? i found out that there is a kentucky bourbon called maker's (which would fit as he talks about filling a glass with it), but here the apostrophe is missing. so?