"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.
The song I sang goes I'm coming home
More and more this year
I think about how I failed
and what should it been?
Something's got me in the mood to
Spill my guts and let you know
Three hundred days and sixty-five
To set things right
To do what you say this time
You know I wouldn't lie
Well something's got me in the mood to
Spill my guts and let you know
I know it's not the cleanest slate
But I'll try again and that's what it's gotta take
(Think I)
Need to get it right next holiday
Hey, hey, hey! 3x
You never do remember
what you should
And I'm drawing blanks
on an empty page
Well something's got me in the mood to
Spill my guts and let you know
I know it's not the cleanest slate
But I'll try again and that's what it's gotta take
(Think I)
Need to get it right next holiday
Hey, hey, hey! 3x
Here I've made you a card
Not from the shelf
But straight from the heart
And here's what it says
I made some mistakes
But you're gonna miss me
Cause now,
I'm cracking a smile
I'm fixing a meal, I'm making my bed
I'm taking a while, I'm soaking it in
Cause here comes a new year
Oh I've made a mistake
To imitate,
I've been a lush
And I've been afraid, of making a change
I'm marking a new year
I'm trying again and that's what it's gotta take
(Think I)
Need to get it right next holiday
Hey, hey, that's okay!
Hey, what a holiday!
Hey, hey, that's O-kay,
And don't drink on a holiday!
(I'm not too sure about that last verse)
More and more this year
I think about how I failed
and what should it been?
Something's got me in the mood to
Spill my guts and let you know
Three hundred days and sixty-five
To set things right
To do what you say this time
You know I wouldn't lie
Well something's got me in the mood to
Spill my guts and let you know
I know it's not the cleanest slate
But I'll try again and that's what it's gotta take
(Think I)
Need to get it right next holiday
Hey, hey, hey! 3x
You never do remember
what you should
And I'm drawing blanks
on an empty page
Well something's got me in the mood to
Spill my guts and let you know
I know it's not the cleanest slate
But I'll try again and that's what it's gotta take
(Think I)
Need to get it right next holiday
Hey, hey, hey! 3x
Here I've made you a card
Not from the shelf
But straight from the heart
And here's what it says
I made some mistakes
But you're gonna miss me
Cause now,
I'm cracking a smile
I'm fixing a meal, I'm making my bed
I'm taking a while, I'm soaking it in
Cause here comes a new year
Oh I've made a mistake
To imitate,
I've been a lush
And I've been afraid, of making a change
I'm marking a new year
I'm trying again and that's what it's gotta take
(Think I)
Need to get it right next holiday
Hey, hey, that's okay!
Hey, what a holiday!
Hey, hey, that's O-kay,
And don't drink on a holiday!
(I'm not too sure about that last verse)
Lyrics submitted by killWHITNEY, edited by Shredxhead
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