"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.
I've lived my life
And questioned it at times
Left people behind
And questioned it at times
I've broken hearts
And questioned it at times
To preserve
My fragile state of mind.
I want to be found
But questioned it at times
Then want to be lost
Thinking things are fine
But then when I'm gone
I'd questioned it at times
Will I cross that line
By failing every time.
Cos' there's something so
Inevitable
When we think a kiss
Could recover us all
And these questions are
Unstoppable
When you know you've
Been here so many
Times before.
And I look at you
For the answers I won't find
Then to myself
For an answer you don't find
Words don't seems to work
For an answer we shan't find
You make up questions
For an answer I can't find
Then I want to kiss
All of this goodbye
So I can't hear
All the tears you cried
You want me to be strong
And not do any wrong
You wish I could just tell you
Not write it in a song
Cos' there's something so
Inevitable
When we think a kiss
Will recover us all
And these questions are
Unstoppable
When you know that
We've been here so many
Times before.
I answer your questions
With questions to trace
Why we look for reason
Where logic hides its face
We're no closer than
We were before
In unlocking this
Heartbroken door
I feel like the clocks
Have begun to stop
For now we both know
It's us that we've lost
Now its the beginning
Of the end
Which questions unanswered
Time and again.
Time and again
Cos' there's something so
Inevitable
When we think a kiss
Will recover us all
And these questions are
Unstoppable
When you know that
We've been here so many
Times before.
Don't you know
That we've been here
A thousand, thousand times
before.
And won't you see
Theres no you and me
A tragedy to be.
And questioned it at times
Left people behind
And questioned it at times
I've broken hearts
And questioned it at times
To preserve
My fragile state of mind.
I want to be found
But questioned it at times
Then want to be lost
Thinking things are fine
But then when I'm gone
I'd questioned it at times
Will I cross that line
By failing every time.
Cos' there's something so
Inevitable
When we think a kiss
Could recover us all
And these questions are
Unstoppable
When you know you've
Been here so many
Times before.
And I look at you
For the answers I won't find
Then to myself
For an answer you don't find
Words don't seems to work
For an answer we shan't find
You make up questions
For an answer I can't find
Then I want to kiss
All of this goodbye
So I can't hear
All the tears you cried
You want me to be strong
And not do any wrong
You wish I could just tell you
Not write it in a song
Cos' there's something so
Inevitable
When we think a kiss
Will recover us all
And these questions are
Unstoppable
When you know that
We've been here so many
Times before.
I answer your questions
With questions to trace
Why we look for reason
Where logic hides its face
We're no closer than
We were before
In unlocking this
Heartbroken door
I feel like the clocks
Have begun to stop
For now we both know
It's us that we've lost
Now its the beginning
Of the end
Which questions unanswered
Time and again.
Time and again
Cos' there's something so
Inevitable
When we think a kiss
Will recover us all
And these questions are
Unstoppable
When you know that
We've been here so many
Times before.
Don't you know
That we've been here
A thousand, thousand times
before.
And won't you see
Theres no you and me
A tragedy to be.
Lyrics submitted by monsterthing
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