"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.
If I could make it to my funeral, I'd scan the crowd for you
While all the speeches spill my life as suicide
I'd buy a ticket from the scalper just to show I hate the system
And you soon know I didn't really care at all
Now I'm alive
So you can watch me from the heavens as I rain down on your head
Tell me what you've always wanted and I'll give you love instead
And when I wake up from this dream, it's you that I'll regret
If I have to break a promise to you, I'll break my hand instead
You thought that I'd put down my pen but instead
I put down the pills that keep me from the edge of breaking down in the back of this hotel room
I saw you standing in the corner of court
With a fist full of evidence that led to this whole situation of me and my plea for insanity
I'll take you on
Now I'm alive
I'll take you on
So you can watch me from the heavens as I rain down on your head
Tell me what you've always wanted and I'll give you love instead
And when I wake up from this dream, it's you that I'll regret
If I have to break a promise to you, I'll break my hand instead
If I could make it to my funeral, I'd smile to the crowd and say to dry your tears cause I'm finally alive
So you can watch me from the heavens as I rain down on your head
Tell me what you've always wanted and I'll give you love instead
And when I wake up from this dream, it's you that I'll regret
If I have to break a promise to you, I'll break my hand instead
While all the speeches spill my life as suicide
I'd buy a ticket from the scalper just to show I hate the system
And you soon know I didn't really care at all
Now I'm alive
So you can watch me from the heavens as I rain down on your head
Tell me what you've always wanted and I'll give you love instead
And when I wake up from this dream, it's you that I'll regret
If I have to break a promise to you, I'll break my hand instead
You thought that I'd put down my pen but instead
I put down the pills that keep me from the edge of breaking down in the back of this hotel room
I saw you standing in the corner of court
With a fist full of evidence that led to this whole situation of me and my plea for insanity
I'll take you on
Now I'm alive
I'll take you on
So you can watch me from the heavens as I rain down on your head
Tell me what you've always wanted and I'll give you love instead
And when I wake up from this dream, it's you that I'll regret
If I have to break a promise to you, I'll break my hand instead
If I could make it to my funeral, I'd smile to the crowd and say to dry your tears cause I'm finally alive
So you can watch me from the heavens as I rain down on your head
Tell me what you've always wanted and I'll give you love instead
And when I wake up from this dream, it's you that I'll regret
If I have to break a promise to you, I'll break my hand instead
Lyrics submitted by fedorov1fan
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