"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.
I saw the lamp light from your window
I didn't think you were home, sitting there all alone
So I came up to your room to ask you why
Why did you hurt me so?
Why did you have to go, away?
I never wanted anything in my life
Not until I met you
I thought you'd see me through
All the bad days that I've had before I met you
Something in the past, never thought it couldn't last, forever
There's one thing I can say, everyday, how I miss you, oh oh
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more than
Than I've ever been hurt before
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more
And now I look down from your window
To see a young man across the street
He looks something like me
And he's walking with his head down to the ground
Did you want to hurt me so?
Why did you have to go away?
There's one thing I can say, everyday, how I miss you, oh oh
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more than
More than I've been hurt before
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more than
More than I've been hurt before
Every day that I'm without you hurts me just a little bit more, ooh
More than I've been hurt before
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more, ooh
More than I've been hurt before
I didn't think you were home, sitting there all alone
So I came up to your room to ask you why
Why did you hurt me so?
Why did you have to go, away?
I never wanted anything in my life
Not until I met you
I thought you'd see me through
All the bad days that I've had before I met you
Something in the past, never thought it couldn't last, forever
There's one thing I can say, everyday, how I miss you, oh oh
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more than
Than I've ever been hurt before
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more
And now I look down from your window
To see a young man across the street
He looks something like me
And he's walking with his head down to the ground
Did you want to hurt me so?
Why did you have to go away?
There's one thing I can say, everyday, how I miss you, oh oh
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more than
More than I've been hurt before
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more than
More than I've been hurt before
Every day that I'm without you hurts me just a little bit more, ooh
More than I've been hurt before
Every day that I'm without you hurts just a little bit more, ooh
More than I've been hurt before
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
amazing guitar solo!! Just Listen:D The Way It Braeks Into Song Amazing ;) 10 out of 10 for me! Shame its a 1 hit wonder
16 just out of school ...is this it????