"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.
My other half wants to run away with me
It's too hot and too fast
If you tell him once just let it be
We don't want love, no love
And if it's real like the ghost on the sea
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And if it's real like the ghost on the sea
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And is it real, and is it real
And is it real like the ghost on the sea?
If our emotions get to heavy to carry
All too hot and too fast
They won't know and we won't be sorry
We don't want love, no love
And is it real like the girls on TV?
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And is it real like those girls on TV?
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And is it real, and is it real
Is it real like those girls on TV?
Tick tick, do that trick trick
Tick tick, now you're sick
Hide in the closet, we kiss
Neither of us feeling this
And is it real like the girls on TV?
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And is it real like those girls on TV?
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And this ain't real, and this ain't real
This ain't real like those girls on TV
It's too hot and too fast
If you tell him once just let it be
We don't want love, no love
And if it's real like the ghost on the sea
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And if it's real like the ghost on the sea
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And is it real, and is it real
And is it real like the ghost on the sea?
If our emotions get to heavy to carry
All too hot and too fast
They won't know and we won't be sorry
We don't want love, no love
And is it real like the girls on TV?
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And is it real like those girls on TV?
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And is it real, and is it real
Is it real like those girls on TV?
Tick tick, do that trick trick
Tick tick, now you're sick
Hide in the closet, we kiss
Neither of us feeling this
And is it real like the girls on TV?
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And is it real like those girls on TV?
Shut up and smile 'cause you just cut into me
And this ain't real, and this ain't real
This ain't real like those girls on TV
Lyrics submitted by YoungxForxEternity
Girls on TV Lyrics as written by Jemima Pearl Abegg Jamin Orrall
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the riff in the middle of the song reminds me of the fight song from the movie school of rock. i was racking my brain for hours trying to remember where it came from. anyway it's a real good song.