"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.
On the end of a tight rope
I'm over the town
I'd be good in a circus
But so would a clown
From the way that I feel
All my hang-ups are down
In the middle of nowhere
I found me a tree
And the fruit that we live on
Reminds me of me
Though we live in the air
I'm not sure that we?re free
And I don't really have much to say
Cause I'm Living from day to day
Somewhere
And I don't care what the people say
Cause if everyone know the way we?re nowhere.
Two and two make four
They never make five
And as long as we know it
We all can survive
Make sure that the things you do
Keep us alive
And I don't really have much to say
Cause I've living from day to day
Somewhere
And I don't care what the people say
Cause if everyone knows the way we?re nowhere.
Is the image I'm making
The image I see
When the man in the mirror
Is talking to me
I'm over the town
I'd be good in a circus
But so would a clown
From the way that I feel
All my hang-ups are down
In the middle of nowhere
I found me a tree
And the fruit that we live on
Reminds me of me
Though we live in the air
I'm not sure that we?re free
And I don't really have much to say
Cause I'm Living from day to day
Somewhere
And I don't care what the people say
Cause if everyone know the way we?re nowhere.
Two and two make four
They never make five
And as long as we know it
We all can survive
Make sure that the things you do
Keep us alive
And I don't really have much to say
Cause I've living from day to day
Somewhere
And I don't care what the people say
Cause if everyone knows the way we?re nowhere.
Is the image I'm making
The image I see
When the man in the mirror
Is talking to me
Lyrics submitted by hari66, edited by jean111511
Man in the Mirror Lyrics as written by Graham Nash
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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