"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.
It's too late now, it's twenty past two
I spent the night just watchin' you
I watched you dance
I watched you move
Can't breath and still I watched you move away
Now I think quite a lot
As I stare at my shoes
About all these things
That I put myself through
There's nothing to say and there's nothing to do
You're just too nice to talk to
Too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
The right lines wouldn't come out for you
I glance but you just stared me through
Felt such a fool I felt you knew
But you might tell me to go away
Now I think quite a lot
Of my own point of view
Is that all I have that's in common with you
Your emotions so guarded
My heart is retarded
You're too nice to talk to
Too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
This evening hasn't gone like I planned
Should I take the situation in hand
Can't go on but I can't seem to dance
You chain my feet, I stamp and stamp and stamp
Because nothing I do ever seems to be right
The same line to mind every Saturday night
Out the window you might say I'm out of of my mind
But you're too nice to talk to
Too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
Too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
Too nice
I spent the night just watchin' you
I watched you dance
I watched you move
Can't breath and still I watched you move away
Now I think quite a lot
As I stare at my shoes
About all these things
That I put myself through
There's nothing to say and there's nothing to do
You're just too nice to talk to
Too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
The right lines wouldn't come out for you
I glance but you just stared me through
Felt such a fool I felt you knew
But you might tell me to go away
Now I think quite a lot
Of my own point of view
Is that all I have that's in common with you
Your emotions so guarded
My heart is retarded
You're too nice to talk to
Too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
This evening hasn't gone like I planned
Should I take the situation in hand
Can't go on but I can't seem to dance
You chain my feet, I stamp and stamp and stamp
Because nothing I do ever seems to be right
The same line to mind every Saturday night
Out the window you might say I'm out of of my mind
But you're too nice to talk to
Too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
Too nice to talk to
You're too nice to talk to
Too nice
Lyrics submitted by swim_lil_fishie
Too Nice to Talk Lyrics as written by Andrew Cox Roger Charlery
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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now i think quite a lot as i stare at my shoes about all these things that i put myself through now there's nothing to say and there's nothing to do what does this mean???
now i think quite a lot as i stare at my shoes about all these things that i put myself through now there's nothing to say and there's nothing to do what does this mean???
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