"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.
In emergency
I fire my thoughts at you
Responding or not maybe
Reacting a lot you'll be
Turn around now
She's killing with looks at ease
Defending or not maybe
Depending a lot I'll be
And as we get lost deliver our souls
To each other we lose control
And start to bother about friends
We used to know
And as we get lost inside this dream
With each other nobody sees
Or seems to notice that we're losing
What we're fighting for
While the moments pass
I watch every move you make
Betray us or not who cares
Surrender the heart that tears
As I catch your breath
You stand there and watch me bleed
We'll blend into one maybe
But never apart you'll see
And as we get lost deliver our souls
To each other we lose control
And start to bother about friends
We used to know
And as we get lost inside this dream
With each other nobody sees
Or seems to notice that we're losing
What we're fighting for
Turn around now
And as we get lost deliver our souls
To each other we lose control
And start to bother about friends
We used to know
And as we get lost inside this dream
With each other nobody sees
Or seems to notice that we're losing
What we're fighting for
I fire my thoughts at you
Responding or not maybe
Reacting a lot you'll be
Turn around now
She's killing with looks at ease
Defending or not maybe
Depending a lot I'll be
And as we get lost deliver our souls
To each other we lose control
And start to bother about friends
We used to know
And as we get lost inside this dream
With each other nobody sees
Or seems to notice that we're losing
What we're fighting for
While the moments pass
I watch every move you make
Betray us or not who cares
Surrender the heart that tears
As I catch your breath
You stand there and watch me bleed
We'll blend into one maybe
But never apart you'll see
And as we get lost deliver our souls
To each other we lose control
And start to bother about friends
We used to know
And as we get lost inside this dream
With each other nobody sees
Or seems to notice that we're losing
What we're fighting for
Turn around now
And as we get lost deliver our souls
To each other we lose control
And start to bother about friends
We used to know
And as we get lost inside this dream
With each other nobody sees
Or seems to notice that we're losing
What we're fighting for
Lyrics submitted by merren
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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To me this signifies the end of a relationship, when you get so intensely dependant and wrapped up with someone...then you're moving so fast you "lose control" and crash then you almost wake up to reality and try to recollect the life you had before...bothering about friends you used to know.
Exactly, I agree. this song has ruined my life! everytime im with my girlfriend now i just feel like im waisting time and "losing what im fighting for". I shared this thought with her once and she laughed at me. then she kicked me and called me a pansey. Now I am debating on whether or not i should go "bother about friends SHE used to know" hehe, wink wink.