"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.
Wait this isn’t me
That you’re talking to
This is a front that I put on
The Verse
In every song
In every word
And say whatever you can
The story’s a lie
They fed us an ending
That left us alright
And this is the world
And this is the page
From a book I wouldn’t read,
For goodness sake
And right now where you are I guess you’re over it
But I can’t see
How you without me
Could possibly make any sense
And right now all you need is just some time to mend
Oh well take all you need
But my sanity is forever riding on this
Spell it I M-I-S-S
I miss you
And talk a little bit more
So I hear a voice
And maybe you’ll talk me out into the light
And I’d see the dark and laugh in it’s face
And I pray
Wherever you are
That this is the night
And this is the girl that I’ll love all my life
And this is the song that she’s waiting for
Oh and she’s calling out the words
So we sing some more
And right now where you are I guess you’re over it
But I can’t see
How you without me
Could possibly make any sense
And right now all you need is just some time to mend
Oh well take all you need
But my sanity is forever riding on this
Spell it I M-I-S-S
I miss you
and she’s calling out the words
So we sing some more
And right now where you are I guess you’re over it
But I can’t see
How you without me
Could possibly make any sense
And right now all you need is just some time to mend
Oh well take all you need
But my sanity is forever riding on this
And right now where you are I guess you’re over it (I M-I-S-S
I miss you)
But I can’t see (I M-I-S-S)
How you without me (I miss you)
Could possibly make any sense
And right now all you need is just some time to mend (I M-I-S-S
I miss you)
Oh well take all you need (I M-I-S-S)
But my sanity is forever riding on this (I miss you)
Spell it I M-I-S-S
I miss you
That you’re talking to
This is a front that I put on
The Verse
In every song
In every word
And say whatever you can
The story’s a lie
They fed us an ending
That left us alright
And this is the world
And this is the page
From a book I wouldn’t read,
For goodness sake
And right now where you are I guess you’re over it
But I can’t see
How you without me
Could possibly make any sense
And right now all you need is just some time to mend
Oh well take all you need
But my sanity is forever riding on this
Spell it I M-I-S-S
I miss you
And talk a little bit more
So I hear a voice
And maybe you’ll talk me out into the light
And I’d see the dark and laugh in it’s face
And I pray
Wherever you are
That this is the night
And this is the girl that I’ll love all my life
And this is the song that she’s waiting for
Oh and she’s calling out the words
So we sing some more
And right now where you are I guess you’re over it
But I can’t see
How you without me
Could possibly make any sense
And right now all you need is just some time to mend
Oh well take all you need
But my sanity is forever riding on this
Spell it I M-I-S-S
I miss you
and she’s calling out the words
So we sing some more
And right now where you are I guess you’re over it
But I can’t see
How you without me
Could possibly make any sense
And right now all you need is just some time to mend
Oh well take all you need
But my sanity is forever riding on this
And right now where you are I guess you’re over it (I M-I-S-S
I miss you)
But I can’t see (I M-I-S-S)
How you without me (I miss you)
Could possibly make any sense
And right now all you need is just some time to mend (I M-I-S-S
I miss you)
Oh well take all you need (I M-I-S-S)
But my sanity is forever riding on this (I miss you)
Spell it I M-I-S-S
I miss you
Lyrics submitted by brittanynoele
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Yeah, they've changed the name of this song a few times, and now they've finally settled on "I Miss You" but i can't figure out how to edit the lyrics anymore!