"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 the dark days
I'll part ways with the blame
Trying to maintain
But it's still all the same
It's all a game
Hear my name in the rain and the pain
I wear on my face with a tear stain
You feign fondness, honestly it's time to give you a piece of my mind
And show you that you're blind
And in the design of the world I call mine, know that you can't stand
On both sides of the line
Everything is my fault
(It's all the same, just pass me the blame)
The problems have two faces
Everything is my fault
(It's all the same, just pass me the blame)
The problems have two faces
Pass all the blame over to me, it will come eventually
Take the time out to examine all these questions honestly
With my eyes shut, I'm seeing the truth in your words
The absurd, slurred into beauty to be heard
You swim through deceit, the lies that you tell
The stories you sell, knowing you well, I keep distance
And every instance you keep your thoughts concealed
What I feel, just another spoke in the wheel
All or nothing, thrown down and trampled by your heel
And eaten away by my own version of the real
Everything is my fault
(It's all the same, just pass me the blame)
The problems have two faces
Everything is my fault
(It's all the same, just pass me the blame)
The problems have two faces
Pass all the blame over to me, it will come eventually
Take the time out to examine all these questions honestly
Who is to blame?
Nothing, thrown down
It's all the same, just pass me the blame
Trampled by your heal
Play the game and wear the tear stain
Eaten by my own
Pass the blame 'cause you'll feel it if you don't
Version of the real
Nothing, thrown down
It's all the same, just pass me the blame
Trampled by your heal
Play the game and wear the tear stain
Eaten by my own
Pass the blame 'cause you'll feel it if you don't
Version of the real
I'll part ways with the blame
Trying to maintain
But it's still all the same
It's all a game
Hear my name in the rain and the pain
I wear on my face with a tear stain
You feign fondness, honestly it's time to give you a piece of my mind
And show you that you're blind
And in the design of the world I call mine, know that you can't stand
On both sides of the line
Everything is my fault
(It's all the same, just pass me the blame)
The problems have two faces
Everything is my fault
(It's all the same, just pass me the blame)
The problems have two faces
Pass all the blame over to me, it will come eventually
Take the time out to examine all these questions honestly
With my eyes shut, I'm seeing the truth in your words
The absurd, slurred into beauty to be heard
You swim through deceit, the lies that you tell
The stories you sell, knowing you well, I keep distance
And every instance you keep your thoughts concealed
What I feel, just another spoke in the wheel
All or nothing, thrown down and trampled by your heel
And eaten away by my own version of the real
Everything is my fault
(It's all the same, just pass me the blame)
The problems have two faces
Everything is my fault
(It's all the same, just pass me the blame)
The problems have two faces
Pass all the blame over to me, it will come eventually
Take the time out to examine all these questions honestly
Who is to blame?
Nothing, thrown down
It's all the same, just pass me the blame
Trampled by your heal
Play the game and wear the tear stain
Eaten by my own
Pass the blame 'cause you'll feel it if you don't
Version of the real
Nothing, thrown down
It's all the same, just pass me the blame
Trampled by your heal
Play the game and wear the tear stain
Eaten by my own
Pass the blame 'cause you'll feel it if you don't
Version of the real
Lyrics submitted by its_2_simple
Blue [1998 Unreleased Hybrid Theory Demo] [LPU Rarities] Lyrics as written by Robert G. Bourdon Chester Charles Bennington
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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