"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.
I'm holding on so tightly now
My insides scream so loud
They keep watching
Watching me drowned
How did it come to this
How did it come to this?
How did I know it was you?
It was a bad dream?
Asphyxiated and watch me bleed
The life support was cut
The knot was too tight
They push and pull me but
They know they'll never win
Throw it all away throw it all away
I keep on screaming but
There's really nothing left to say
So get away, just get away
I keep on fighting but
I can't keep going on this way
I can't keep going
Can't keep going on like this
They make me sick
And I get so sick of it
Cause they won't let me
They won't let me breath
Why can't they let me be?
Why can't they let me be?
Why don't I know what I am?
I force this hate into my heart
Cause it's my only friend
My lips are sewn shut
I watch my self bleed
They push and pull me
And it's killing me within
Throw it all away throw it all away
I keep on screaming but
There's really nothing left to say
So get away, just get away
I keep on fighting but
I can't keep going on this way
I can't keep going
Can't keep going on this way
I can't keep going
Can't keep going on this way
My heart beat stumbles and
My back bone crumbles
I feel is it real as
The lynch mob doubles?
They want blood and they'll kill for it
Drain me and they'll kneel for it
Burn me at the stake met
The devil made the deal for it
Guillotine dreams, yeah
They're guillotine gleams
The blood of they're enemies
Watching while they sense me
Sentencing ceased, sentence
Diseased and watch them bask
In the glory of their holy disease
Throw it all away throw it all away
I keep on screaming but
There's really nothing left to say
So get away, just get away
I keep on fighting but
I can't keep going on this way
I keep on running
I keep on running
I keep on running
But I can't keep
Going on this way
I keep on running
I keep on running
But I can't keep
Going on this way
My insides scream so loud
They keep watching
Watching me drowned
How did it come to this
How did it come to this?
How did I know it was you?
It was a bad dream?
Asphyxiated and watch me bleed
The life support was cut
The knot was too tight
They push and pull me but
They know they'll never win
Throw it all away throw it all away
I keep on screaming but
There's really nothing left to say
So get away, just get away
I keep on fighting but
I can't keep going on this way
I can't keep going
Can't keep going on like this
They make me sick
And I get so sick of it
Cause they won't let me
They won't let me breath
Why can't they let me be?
Why can't they let me be?
Why don't I know what I am?
I force this hate into my heart
Cause it's my only friend
My lips are sewn shut
I watch my self bleed
They push and pull me
And it's killing me within
Throw it all away throw it all away
I keep on screaming but
There's really nothing left to say
So get away, just get away
I keep on fighting but
I can't keep going on this way
I can't keep going
Can't keep going on this way
I can't keep going
Can't keep going on this way
My heart beat stumbles and
My back bone crumbles
I feel is it real as
The lynch mob doubles?
They want blood and they'll kill for it
Drain me and they'll kneel for it
Burn me at the stake met
The devil made the deal for it
Guillotine dreams, yeah
They're guillotine gleams
The blood of they're enemies
Watching while they sense me
Sentencing ceased, sentence
Diseased and watch them bask
In the glory of their holy disease
Throw it all away throw it all away
I keep on screaming but
There's really nothing left to say
So get away, just get away
I keep on fighting but
I can't keep going on this way
I keep on running
I keep on running
I keep on running
But I can't keep
Going on this way
I keep on running
I keep on running
But I can't keep
Going on this way
Lyrics submitted by pinkthongs, edited by AutyoFaygo, MusicChica
Sell Your Soul Lyrics as written by Jorel Decker Aron Erlichman
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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