"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've seen the way that the sun sets in your face
Our love is too big for us to break
You've got me wishing for the stars in outer space
I'm holding onto this life and love and for
The possibility, you and me, let me be
I need to find a way
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark days
I've seen the way that the rain spits in your face
Just falling upon your lips to taste
If I could give to you the stars in outer space
I'm holding onto this life and love and for
The possibility, you and me, let me be
I need to find a way
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark days
Another time and place
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark days
So far away, so far away
So far away
Look into your heart
And let time heal this pain
We're not so far away
We're not so far away
The possibility, you and me, let me be
I need to find a way
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark days
Another time and place
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark, light of these dark
Light of these dark days
All as one, you made me come home
And all this, I'm one to never follow
In all this, I'm one who will ever love you
All this I'm done, all this I'm done
Our love is too big for us to break
You've got me wishing for the stars in outer space
I'm holding onto this life and love and for
The possibility, you and me, let me be
I need to find a way
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark days
I've seen the way that the rain spits in your face
Just falling upon your lips to taste
If I could give to you the stars in outer space
I'm holding onto this life and love and for
The possibility, you and me, let me be
I need to find a way
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark days
Another time and place
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark days
So far away, so far away
So far away
Look into your heart
And let time heal this pain
We're not so far away
We're not so far away
The possibility, you and me, let me be
I need to find a way
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark days
Another time and place
To put this struggle behind us
Can't spend my life in shame
Making light of these dark, light of these dark
Light of these dark days
All as one, you made me come home
And all this, I'm one to never follow
In all this, I'm one who will ever love you
All this I'm done, all this I'm done
Lyrics submitted by afitch1206
Dark Days Lyrics as written by Quinn Allman Jeph Howard
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