"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.
We walked around like statues in the dark cold minutes of night
Those ripped up feelings that fall short of meaning
Fall short of meaning it twice
We put half in a bottle, give half to you
If not for your mother you would've blown that too
Those ripped up feelings that fall short of meaning
Fall short of meaning
Fall short of meaning it twice
I'll bury a flower for every door
The words they just go right
Into me
I'll bury the power but you can't ignore
The words they just go right
Into me
Falling to the bathroom floor
You'll get what you want when you're right
Falling to the bathroom floor
You'll get what you want when you don't want it anymore
What's so heavy about the stale cold fuck of a crooner's mouth
Does he even know the blues?
He was schooled at home
He was schooled at home
Pinned to the ground by some kids he knows
We walked around like statues in the dark cold minutes of night
You'll never get to see it
It tips if it's leaning
Stay armed with photographs
Those ripped up feelings that fall short of meaning
Fall short of meaning it twice
We put half in a bottle, give half to you
If not for your mother you would've blown that too
Those ripped up feelings that fall short of meaning
Fall short of meaning
Fall short of meaning it twice
I'll bury a flower for every door
The words they just go right
Into me
I'll bury the power but you can't ignore
The words they just go right
Into me
Falling to the bathroom floor
You'll get what you want when you're right
Falling to the bathroom floor
You'll get what you want when you don't want it anymore
What's so heavy about the stale cold fuck of a crooner's mouth
Does he even know the blues?
He was schooled at home
He was schooled at home
Pinned to the ground by some kids he knows
We walked around like statues in the dark cold minutes of night
You'll never get to see it
It tips if it's leaning
Stay armed with photographs
Lyrics submitted by snakemistakes
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