"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.
Whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna feel
When suddenly I slip away?
Almost am a ghost
Of who I used to be
Yesterday.
How you gonna touch
And how will you collect
The beauty when it turns to dust?
Everything we make
The cells we generate
Of both of us..
Please be aware that I am you!
Nothing could be more certain
This ain't the time the place for us
To understand this life!
Hold you in my arms
Hold you in my gaze
Singing with my dying breath
Underneath this earth
A resurrected soul
And nothing else
Sorry for this space
If I could fill a void
An ocean wouldn't hold my love
And everything I have
And all I ever was
Is not enough
Please be aware that I am you!
Nothing could be more certain
This ain't the time the place for us
To understand this life!
(I will protect you)
Please be aware that I am you!
Nothing could be more certain
This ain't the time the place for us
To understand this life!
This ain't the time! This ain't the place!
This ain't the time! This ain't the place!
This ain't the time! This ain't the place!
I will protect you...
Whatcha gonna feel
When suddenly I slip away?
Almost am a ghost
Of who I used to be
Yesterday.
How you gonna touch
And how will you collect
The beauty when it turns to dust?
Everything we make
The cells we generate
Of both of us..
Please be aware that I am you!
Nothing could be more certain
This ain't the time the place for us
To understand this life!
Hold you in my arms
Hold you in my gaze
Singing with my dying breath
Underneath this earth
A resurrected soul
And nothing else
Sorry for this space
If I could fill a void
An ocean wouldn't hold my love
And everything I have
And all I ever was
Is not enough
Please be aware that I am you!
Nothing could be more certain
This ain't the time the place for us
To understand this life!
(I will protect you)
Please be aware that I am you!
Nothing could be more certain
This ain't the time the place for us
To understand this life!
This ain't the time! This ain't the place!
This ain't the time! This ain't the place!
This ain't the time! This ain't the place!
I will protect you...
Lyrics submitted by Psychotic Penguin
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