"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.
Many times, many times
I fell in love with you and never showed it
Another way, another way, another way, another way to catch a sunny day, it only molded
I'd run a mile, run a mile, run a mile, run a mile, I'd run a mile for you blindfolded
And all the words, the words, the words, all the words that you ever said to me will always be broken
So, so I put away, put away, put away, put away the words you never said to me and the scar that's open wide
You turn away, turn away, turn away, turn away, you turned away from me and never said goodbye
And all the words, the words, the words, all the words that you ever promised me, were never spoken
And here I am, here I am, here I am, I'm not afraid of you, but still broken
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken (broken, broken)
Broken
And if you looked into my dark, unhappy eyes, you'd see the tears that I'm choking
And if you touched, if you touched my heart you'd feel the pain I call hoping
And don't you know, don't you know I'd die for just a lie from you, yeah, a token
And even though, even though I know it could never heal, my heart's still broken
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
She always said:
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
She always said:
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
Still broken (x3)
I'm still broken
I fell in love with you and never showed it
Another way, another way, another way, another way to catch a sunny day, it only molded
I'd run a mile, run a mile, run a mile, run a mile, I'd run a mile for you blindfolded
And all the words, the words, the words, all the words that you ever said to me will always be broken
So, so I put away, put away, put away, put away the words you never said to me and the scar that's open wide
You turn away, turn away, turn away, turn away, you turned away from me and never said goodbye
And all the words, the words, the words, all the words that you ever promised me, were never spoken
And here I am, here I am, here I am, I'm not afraid of you, but still broken
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken (broken, broken)
Broken
And if you looked into my dark, unhappy eyes, you'd see the tears that I'm choking
And if you touched, if you touched my heart you'd feel the pain I call hoping
And don't you know, don't you know I'd die for just a lie from you, yeah, a token
And even though, even though I know it could never heal, my heart's still broken
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
She always said:
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
She always said:
A hey yah, a hey yah, a hey
Yeah, I'm still broken
Still broken (x3)
I'm still broken
Lyrics submitted by tippy_typewriter
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