"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 never bother anybody
I stick myself and keep my eyes set
straight
Won't be the one to bring you down
Cause it just wouldn't make me feel too great
Some people crave too much
drama
Caused by someone, something, all for what?
A psychological trauma
Without a choice, sometimes that's all
you've got
Change my plans and my directions
I've gotta change the key that makes this person me
I've learned that patience is better
I take a breath and count real slow to ten
Why don't we try it together?
We'll make mistakes, get up and start again
Don't feel a need to be violent
I'm working with this rage inside of
me
And i will never be silenced
I'll try and use this rage to set me free
Change my ways and I'm still trying
It ain't easy but I'm not crying
Change my plans and my direction
I gotta change the key that makes this person me
I stick myself and keep my eyes set
straight
Won't be the one to bring you down
Cause it just wouldn't make me feel too great
Some people crave too much
drama
Caused by someone, something, all for what?
A psychological trauma
Without a choice, sometimes that's all
you've got
Change my plans and my directions
I've gotta change the key that makes this person me
I've learned that patience is better
I take a breath and count real slow to ten
Why don't we try it together?
We'll make mistakes, get up and start again
Don't feel a need to be violent
I'm working with this rage inside of
me
And i will never be silenced
I'll try and use this rage to set me free
Change my ways and I'm still trying
It ain't easy but I'm not crying
Change my plans and my direction
I gotta change the key that makes this person me
Lyrics submitted by punkpirate
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