"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.
Well, there's been an accident (Calm down!)
There's been an accident, breath
In and out, calm down (In and out, calm down)
Breath in and out, calm down (In and out, calm down)
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
Breath in and out, calm down
But would you do it again? Again, and count backwards from ten
(Look, I don't make those mistakes no more)
You took the path that's where I could see straight through you
Just concentrate, good try
(But would you do it again?)
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go
Back
(Concentrate, just calculate, cause you
Concentrate, just calculate, don't you?
Concentrate then calculate then you
Then the oxygen just can't be late
Don't be late, just can't seem late, just
Concentrate, just count the victim
Can't seem late, just can't seem late
Gotta concentrate, just can't be late)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I tried (It's just) I try (It's just)
I tried (It's just) I try (It's just)
I tried (It's just) I tried (It's just)
I tried! (It's just) I tried! (It's just)
I TRIED (It's just)
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
(It just doesn't feel like)
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
(Anything, anything)
We can't go back, we can't go back
(Anything, anything)
We can't go back
There's been an accident, breath
In and out, calm down (In and out, calm down)
Breath in and out, calm down (In and out, calm down)
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
Breath in and out, calm down
But would you do it again? Again, and count backwards from ten
(Look, I don't make those mistakes no more)
You took the path that's where I could see straight through you
Just concentrate, good try
(But would you do it again?)
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go
Back
(Concentrate, just calculate, cause you
Concentrate, just calculate, don't you?
Concentrate then calculate then you
Then the oxygen just can't be late
Don't be late, just can't seem late, just
Concentrate, just count the victim
Can't seem late, just can't seem late
Gotta concentrate, just can't be late)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I try (It's just) I try (It's just)
I tried (It's just) I try (It's just)
I tried (It's just) I try (It's just)
I tried (It's just) I tried (It's just)
I tried! (It's just) I tried! (It's just)
I TRIED (It's just)
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
(It just doesn't feel like)
We can't go back, we can't go back
We can't go back, we can't
(Anything, anything)
We can't go back, we can't go back
(Anything, anything)
We can't go back
Lyrics submitted by xoshinobiox
Error Operator Lyrics as written by Edward Reyes Adam Burbank Lazzara
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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