"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.
Hips swaying, lips lie
Like clockwork, she's in control
Of all the right guys and I'm still waiting
Fitted hats and a car alarm
Wears high-tops with her favorite song
She's showing off, the way she walks, it's on
Take me, show me
The corners of your empty room
The trouble we could get into
Just fake it for me
Disregard the footsteps
And we'll never tell a soul
Tonight I'm finding a way
To make the things that you say
Just a little less obvious
I walk a fine line
Between the right and the real
They watch me closely but talk is cheap here
Like a weightless currency
Your words don't mean shit to me
I'm always cashing out
Take me, show me
The corners of your empty room
The trouble we could get into
Just fake it for me
Disregard the footsteps
And we'll never tell a soul
Tonight I'm finding a way
To make the things that you say
Just a little less obvious, I confess
Tonight I'm dressed up in gold
You've got me fucked up and so
You talk like you're famous, you're shameless
Tonight I'm finding a way
To make the things that you say
Just a little less obvious, I confess
Tonight I'm dressed up in gold
You've got me fucked up and so
You talk like you're famous, you're shameless
Tonight I'm finding a way
To make the things that you say
Just a little less obvious, I confess
Tonight I'm dressed up in gold
You've got me fucked up and so
You talk like you're famous, you're shameless
Like clockwork, she's in control
Of all the right guys and I'm still waiting
Fitted hats and a car alarm
Wears high-tops with her favorite song
She's showing off, the way she walks, it's on
Take me, show me
The corners of your empty room
The trouble we could get into
Just fake it for me
Disregard the footsteps
And we'll never tell a soul
Tonight I'm finding a way
To make the things that you say
Just a little less obvious
I walk a fine line
Between the right and the real
They watch me closely but talk is cheap here
Like a weightless currency
Your words don't mean shit to me
I'm always cashing out
Take me, show me
The corners of your empty room
The trouble we could get into
Just fake it for me
Disregard the footsteps
And we'll never tell a soul
Tonight I'm finding a way
To make the things that you say
Just a little less obvious, I confess
Tonight I'm dressed up in gold
You've got me fucked up and so
You talk like you're famous, you're shameless
Tonight I'm finding a way
To make the things that you say
Just a little less obvious, I confess
Tonight I'm dressed up in gold
You've got me fucked up and so
You talk like you're famous, you're shameless
Tonight I'm finding a way
To make the things that you say
Just a little less obvious, I confess
Tonight I'm dressed up in gold
You've got me fucked up and so
You talk like you're famous, you're shameless
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
Shameless Lyrics as written by Robert Ryan Dawson Jack Bassam Barakat
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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