"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.
Heads down, check it out
it's all better i found the door
it opens for a better day
heads down, check it out
it's all better i see a light
i fight to make a way
live life by yourself
can't make it on your own you hope to make a way
live life by yourself
don't seek it, it'll come to you,
you hope for a better day
and for that something and it's better home,
let it roll! let it roll!
let her win your heart it's all for a better way
let it roll! let it roll!
let her win your heart it's all for a better day that sure?
don't you mean it's that one goal
don't you mean it's that one goal
don't you mean it's that one goal
darling pick up the piece and move on from this
fight, fight for your life
don't take it overboard, you live die by the sword
fight, fight for your life
don't take it under oath you all need to hope and pray
so here is to the future hope, we all get there by the way
we hope for a better day, so here is to your common ways
hope you find it all alone,you hope for a better day
it's all better i found the door
it opens for a better day
heads down, check it out
it's all better i see a light
i fight to make a way
live life by yourself
can't make it on your own you hope to make a way
live life by yourself
don't seek it, it'll come to you,
you hope for a better day
and for that something and it's better home,
let it roll! let it roll!
let her win your heart it's all for a better way
let it roll! let it roll!
let her win your heart it's all for a better day that sure?
don't you mean it's that one goal
don't you mean it's that one goal
don't you mean it's that one goal
darling pick up the piece and move on from this
fight, fight for your life
don't take it overboard, you live die by the sword
fight, fight for your life
don't take it under oath you all need to hope and pray
so here is to the future hope, we all get there by the way
we hope for a better day, so here is to your common ways
hope you find it all alone,you hope for a better day
Lyrics submitted by underoath323
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