"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 don't wanna feel like I don't have a future
I don't wanna feel like it's an end of a summer
Let's not fall back to sleep like we used to
I don't wanna wake up knowing I don't have a future
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible, your love is something I cannot remember
I don't wanna spend another day in this city
I woke up thirsty, it's hard to go back, you know
Let's not fall back to sleep like we used to, do you remember?
I don't wanna wake up knowing I don't have a future
And I know it's
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible, your love is something I cannot remember
And there's a first time and a second time, you gotta hold on
Did you know it could happen to you?
Your love is something I cannot remember
I don't wanna see the same pictures all over
And I've been standing on the same spot now since it's been over
'Cause someone promised me a new chance, yes, you promised
I don't wanna wake up knowing I don't have a future
And I know it's
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible, your love is something I cannot remember
Now there's a first time and a second time, you gotta hold on
Did you know it could happen to you?
Your love is something I cannot remember
Your love is impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
You are just like your mother, I'm just as same as the others
Do you believe everything they write in all those magazines?
Stay out of love until you're ready, stay out of it 'cause it scares you
You'll still find your love outside the public library
I know it could happen to you
I know it could happen to you
I know it could happen to you
I know, did you? It could happen to you
I know it could happen to you
I know it could happen to you
And I know it's
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible, your love is something I cannot remember
Now there's a first time and a second time, you gotta hold on
Did you know it could happen to you?
Your love is something I cannot remember
Your love is impossible
(Impossible, impossible)
It's impossible
(Impossible, impossible)
There's a first time and a second time, you gotta hold on
First time and second time
There's a first time and second time
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible
I don't wanna feel like it's an end of a summer
Let's not fall back to sleep like we used to
I don't wanna wake up knowing I don't have a future
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible, your love is something I cannot remember
I don't wanna spend another day in this city
I woke up thirsty, it's hard to go back, you know
Let's not fall back to sleep like we used to, do you remember?
I don't wanna wake up knowing I don't have a future
And I know it's
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible, your love is something I cannot remember
And there's a first time and a second time, you gotta hold on
Did you know it could happen to you?
Your love is something I cannot remember
I don't wanna see the same pictures all over
And I've been standing on the same spot now since it's been over
'Cause someone promised me a new chance, yes, you promised
I don't wanna wake up knowing I don't have a future
And I know it's
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible, your love is something I cannot remember
Now there's a first time and a second time, you gotta hold on
Did you know it could happen to you?
Your love is something I cannot remember
Your love is impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
You are just like your mother, I'm just as same as the others
Do you believe everything they write in all those magazines?
Stay out of love until you're ready, stay out of it 'cause it scares you
You'll still find your love outside the public library
I know it could happen to you
I know it could happen to you
I know it could happen to you
I know, did you? It could happen to you
I know it could happen to you
I know it could happen to you
And I know it's
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible, your love is something I cannot remember
Now there's a first time and a second time, you gotta hold on
Did you know it could happen to you?
Your love is something I cannot remember
Your love is impossible
(Impossible, impossible)
It's impossible
(Impossible, impossible)
There's a first time and a second time, you gotta hold on
First time and second time
There's a first time and second time
(Impossible, impossible)
Impossible
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I think it's about someone who has been through some shit for too long.. both relationship wise and otherwise and FINALLY finds someone who they have this unbelievable bond with.. And everything was going wonderfully and natural.. And then the other person has problems commiting and so person #1 is like "Hey! What we have/had is really good! Why deny it? Stop being a pussy! I don't want to go back to the shit my life was before you.. lets not ignore what we obviously have."
Can you tell i can, uhh.. relate to person #1 right now? haha Great song.