"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 think that it's gonna rain again today
There's a devil at your side but an angel on her way
Someone hit the light 'cause there's more here to be seen
When you caught my eye, I saw everywhere I'd been and wanna go to
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands and air to breathe
I won't disappoint you as you fall apart
Some things should be simple; even an end has a start
Someone hit the light 'cause there's more here to be seen
When you caught my eye, I saw everywhere I'd been and wanna go to
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands and air to breathe
You'll lose everything by the end
Still my broken limbs you find time to mend
More and more people I
Know are getting ill
Pull something good from the
Ashes, now be still
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands and air to breathe
You lose everything by the end
Still my broken limbs you choose to mend
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
You came on your own
You came on your own
There's a devil at your side but an angel on her way
Someone hit the light 'cause there's more here to be seen
When you caught my eye, I saw everywhere I'd been and wanna go to
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands and air to breathe
I won't disappoint you as you fall apart
Some things should be simple; even an end has a start
Someone hit the light 'cause there's more here to be seen
When you caught my eye, I saw everywhere I'd been and wanna go to
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands and air to breathe
You'll lose everything by the end
Still my broken limbs you find time to mend
More and more people I
Know are getting ill
Pull something good from the
Ashes, now be still
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
With hope in your hands and air to breathe
You lose everything by the end
Still my broken limbs you choose to mend
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
You came on your own, that's how you'll leave
You came on your own
You came on your own
Lyrics submitted by dustfinger
An End Has a Start Lyrics as written by Edward Owen Lay Christopher Dominic Urbanowicz
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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