"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.
Come on over, let me watch you
Let me hold you, let me touch you
Right or wrong I should've stayed up 'til the break of dawn
Ever since our eyes did meet
I long to see
Your eyes suprised me like a moon on a cowboy movie screen
I never found out what it means
I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on, I'll waste my life
You think I'm out of my head
But I'm romantically dead
So come on I'll waste my life on you
Come on over, let me watch you
Let me hold you, let me touch you
I'm right, you're wrong
You should have come to me before too long
You'll never leave my sight again
To keep you then
Your eyes deny me like the sun on a night sky movie scene
And I just don't care what it means
I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on I'll waste my life
You think I'm out of my head
But I'm romantically dead
So come on I'll waste my life on you
And I hate to be the one
The one to drop the bomb
You wouldn't wait around
But I'll be watchin' you
Woooooo you, you, you! Yeah you
Woooooo you, you, you! Yeah you
I'll watch your every move
You can't know we can't hurt you
You got no choice I got you
I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on I'll waste my life
You think I'm out of my head
But I'm romantically dead
So come on I'll waste my life
I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on I'll waste my life on you
You think I'm out of my head
But I'm romantically dead
So come on
I'll waste my life, I'll waste my life, my life on you
Let me hold you, let me touch you
Right or wrong I should've stayed up 'til the break of dawn
Ever since our eyes did meet
I long to see
Your eyes suprised me like a moon on a cowboy movie screen
I never found out what it means
I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on, I'll waste my life
You think I'm out of my head
But I'm romantically dead
So come on I'll waste my life on you
Come on over, let me watch you
Let me hold you, let me touch you
I'm right, you're wrong
You should have come to me before too long
You'll never leave my sight again
To keep you then
Your eyes deny me like the sun on a night sky movie scene
And I just don't care what it means
I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on I'll waste my life
You think I'm out of my head
But I'm romantically dead
So come on I'll waste my life on you
And I hate to be the one
The one to drop the bomb
You wouldn't wait around
But I'll be watchin' you
Woooooo you, you, you! Yeah you
Woooooo you, you, you! Yeah you
I'll watch your every move
You can't know we can't hurt you
You got no choice I got you
I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on I'll waste my life
You think I'm out of my head
But I'm romantically dead
So come on I'll waste my life
I must be out of my head
It must be something I said
So come on I'll waste my life on you
You think I'm out of my head
But I'm romantically dead
So come on
I'll waste my life, I'll waste my life, my life on you
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Out of My Head Lyrics as written by Matthew Dematteo Christian Brais
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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From what I can see, it sounds like this song is about a guy (Mat I suppose?) who's probably just gone through a breakup or something like that ("I'm romantically dead") and has a one night stand with some random chick.
Sounds like this girl doesn't want it to just be a one-night-stand though, but I guess she's too late. And then Mat has some regrets.
Eh, maybe someone else can come up with something better...