"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.
I think i've been here before,
only now not at the cellar,
I am lying on the sunrooms floor,
and contemplating why that if im so damn tired and out of pocket,
do I turn every conversation and every contemplation I make,
into a self pity trip.
I said that i would ride a wagon right out of this town,
and out of this slide,
to find the confidence and hope,
that i lost back in 2005,
but did I?
Would there be a second chapter,
if they didnt leave the death star alive?
I want to be something else of worth, you see?
And I want fly like a kite in the sky.
You don't need a degree, to deconstruct this melody,
but this ones not for you.
If a song for was,
my justification for the introspective writings i make,
then this is the most anyone will ever hear about my personal life,
then why?
as the apology I owe you is as public as the stars in the sky,
"if I, if I..."
I want to be something else of worth, you see?
And I want fly like a kite in the sky.
You don't need a degree, to deconstruct this melody,
but this ones not for you.
only now not at the cellar,
I am lying on the sunrooms floor,
and contemplating why that if im so damn tired and out of pocket,
do I turn every conversation and every contemplation I make,
into a self pity trip.
I said that i would ride a wagon right out of this town,
and out of this slide,
to find the confidence and hope,
that i lost back in 2005,
but did I?
Would there be a second chapter,
if they didnt leave the death star alive?
I want to be something else of worth, you see?
And I want fly like a kite in the sky.
You don't need a degree, to deconstruct this melody,
but this ones not for you.
If a song for was,
my justification for the introspective writings i make,
then this is the most anyone will ever hear about my personal life,
then why?
as the apology I owe you is as public as the stars in the sky,
"if I, if I..."
I want to be something else of worth, you see?
And I want fly like a kite in the sky.
You don't need a degree, to deconstruct this melody,
but this ones not for you.
Lyrics submitted by im_the_king
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