"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.
Can't we find a better way to feel
I miss who we were
I hate hearing you curse
I know it's all my fault
We didn't have the best friends
We always said the worst things
It doesn't sound like love anymore
The more hurtful it is the more I want to put my head in the wall
Bust these speakers out so I don't have to hear it
I know that's not who you are
I'm sorry you don't hate me as much as you should
I can't make it any more obvious
I'm sorry you don't hate me at all
I suppose I hate myself enough for both of us
Let's turn it back just a little bit
I only want to change one thing about you
I'd like to change so many things about myself
We can turn it back just a little bit
We wait to hear from you
We play your games with you
One last time with you
I don't mind pretending that I'm fine
It feels so good to lose
If I had my way we wouldn't do this anymore, not ever again
If you had your way it wouldn't have happened in the first place
If I had my way we wouldn't say anything like this ever again, not ever again
If you had your way it wouldn't feel like crashing into a tree
Without a seatbelt when you're with your friends
Just
Make me feel
The way I already do
If there's one thing that I know
The snow comes down a little less each year
I don't want to end up all alone
There's someone who needs us both
But it doesn't seem like we can break this cycle
It's making me feel much more useless
Can't we just go back a little bit further
I don't want to feel this way
I never seem to get any better
Even if I'm not the same
I know we can roll back up this hill
Even if it's a little bit slower
I miss who we were
I hate hearing you curse
I know it's all my fault
We didn't have the best friends
We always said the worst things
It doesn't sound like love anymore
The more hurtful it is the more I want to put my head in the wall
Bust these speakers out so I don't have to hear it
I know that's not who you are
I'm sorry you don't hate me as much as you should
I can't make it any more obvious
I'm sorry you don't hate me at all
I suppose I hate myself enough for both of us
Let's turn it back just a little bit
I only want to change one thing about you
I'd like to change so many things about myself
We can turn it back just a little bit
We wait to hear from you
We play your games with you
One last time with you
I don't mind pretending that I'm fine
It feels so good to lose
If I had my way we wouldn't do this anymore, not ever again
If you had your way it wouldn't have happened in the first place
If I had my way we wouldn't say anything like this ever again, not ever again
If you had your way it wouldn't feel like crashing into a tree
Without a seatbelt when you're with your friends
Just
Make me feel
The way I already do
If there's one thing that I know
The snow comes down a little less each year
I don't want to end up all alone
There's someone who needs us both
But it doesn't seem like we can break this cycle
It's making me feel much more useless
Can't we just go back a little bit further
I don't want to feel this way
I never seem to get any better
Even if I'm not the same
I know we can roll back up this hill
Even if it's a little bit slower
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Tumbleweed Salesman in the Winter Lyrics as written by Cameron Blair
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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i love this song.. very beautiful..