"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.
Stay young
And at the top of our lungs
Our hands are free
Our lives have just begun
It's getting dark we should go back
But what's the use if what you love is what you have
And I could die right now
For something beautiful to take me somewhere else
Oh, I try
But I can't calm down
As I drag myself along these severed hands
Are doing the very best they can
I'm gonna buy a cheap bouquet
Before it dies on the display
Gonna break down
Break down the better side of me
The better side of me
Well I know, I know
If I die young
Then we can wake up screaming in your bed
And our lungs are begging us to calm down
And I scare myself with all that talk of severing
Doing the best or so it seems
You've been mistaken
Your finger is on the scale
Burn like you never have before
Stop, drop and roll don't work in hell
So what if I forget regret
So what if I
So what if I forget regret
I want you to know that I
That I've wrote this line a thousand times Forget regret
This must be the way it ends
Calm down
As I drag myself along these severed hands
Are doing the very best they can
As I drive my car into the sea
I taste you like a hammer through my teeth
Will someone tell me what it means
To be alive
It feels just like the feeling when you die
Oh, alright
I'm dead and I don't care if it's cold outside anymore
So come on
Let's have some fun
And at the top of our lungs
Our hands are free
Our lives have just begun
It's getting dark we should go back
But what's the use if what you love is what you have
And I could die right now
For something beautiful to take me somewhere else
Oh, I try
But I can't calm down
As I drag myself along these severed hands
Are doing the very best they can
I'm gonna buy a cheap bouquet
Before it dies on the display
Gonna break down
Break down the better side of me
The better side of me
Well I know, I know
If I die young
Then we can wake up screaming in your bed
And our lungs are begging us to calm down
And I scare myself with all that talk of severing
Doing the best or so it seems
You've been mistaken
Your finger is on the scale
Burn like you never have before
Stop, drop and roll don't work in hell
So what if I forget regret
So what if I
So what if I forget regret
I want you to know that I
That I've wrote this line a thousand times Forget regret
This must be the way it ends
Calm down
As I drag myself along these severed hands
Are doing the very best they can
As I drive my car into the sea
I taste you like a hammer through my teeth
Will someone tell me what it means
To be alive
It feels just like the feeling when you die
Oh, alright
I'm dead and I don't care if it's cold outside anymore
So come on
Let's have some fun
Lyrics submitted by hannahheartattack
The Cheap Bouquet Lyrics as written by Victor Fuentes Michael Fuentes
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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