"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.
Everybody's hurtin', everybody knows it
Are you tryin' to stop it'
Everyone's watchin'
What are you gonna do'
Are you tryin' to stop it'
Everyone's watchin'
Everyone is conversin'
Everyone's listenin'
Oh, yeah, they were a part
He was a part and she was a part of it, oh, fallin' apart
Is anyone watchin'' Is anyone listenin'?
Are we listenin'?
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
Oh, I never knew, they never knew
What you're going through
'Cause you got everybody thinkin'
There's nothin' wrong with you
And you fall apart 'cause you felt apart
And they were a part of it, oh, fallin' apart
Is anyone watchin'' Is anyone listenin'?
Are you listenin'?
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
On dark and stormy days, somewhere it's glowin'
And even though I know I'm here, I know I'm goin'
Oh, you never stop, you just collide
Grasp onto your side, surprise and make it right, yeah
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
Are you tryin' to stop it'
Everyone's watchin'
What are you gonna do'
Are you tryin' to stop it'
Everyone's watchin'
Everyone is conversin'
Everyone's listenin'
Oh, yeah, they were a part
He was a part and she was a part of it, oh, fallin' apart
Is anyone watchin'' Is anyone listenin'?
Are we listenin'?
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
Oh, I never knew, they never knew
What you're going through
'Cause you got everybody thinkin'
There's nothin' wrong with you
And you fall apart 'cause you felt apart
And they were a part of it, oh, fallin' apart
Is anyone watchin'' Is anyone listenin'?
Are you listenin'?
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
On dark and stormy days, somewhere it's glowin'
And even though I know I'm here, I know I'm goin'
Oh, you never stop, you just collide
Grasp onto your side, surprise and make it right, yeah
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
And all I have is all of me
And it's all that I can give
I'm disappointed in hearts
With you our hearts will spill
Over in you, over in me, over in this
Lyrics submitted by smileforthecamera
All I Have Lyrics as written by Stephen Bryce Avary Bryce Avary
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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