"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.
There have been times
Where you have lied
To get me to smile
You have said words
That have delayed tears
That could have been used to drown the love I have for you
Come get your things or let me throw them out
I cant live with them in the same house
There is no easy way to break a heart
Tell me its distance
Tell me Im worthless
Just give me a reason to hate the day we met
Ill lie to my close friends
Ill say that you're crazy
Ill say that we couldn't work
Please are trying to make me
Say I need you here
Cause I need you hear still
There is no easy way to break a heart
Where you have lied
To get me to smile
You have said words
That have delayed tears
That could have been used to drown the love I have for you
Come get your things or let me throw them out
I cant live with them in the same house
There is no easy way to break a heart
Tell me its distance
Tell me Im worthless
Just give me a reason to hate the day we met
Ill lie to my close friends
Ill say that you're crazy
Ill say that we couldn't work
Please are trying to make me
Say I need you here
Cause I need you hear still
There is no easy way to break a heart
Lyrics submitted by dawsonp
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Why are there no comments! This song is fucking amazing. I cried the first time I listened all the way through and now I can't stop listening to it.
His voice is divine and this is just something that everyone can relate to. Especially where someone, even if they don't feel the same way anymore, will still try and make you happy and lie a little bit to get your to happy.