"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.
There you go caught you crashin' my dreams again
Just when I'm trying to get over you
I tell my heart but I can't seem to comprehend
A day without you
Now you've carved out a life
But I wear the scars
Reminding me by the hour
That it's time to accept that's the way the things are
I wish I could but
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
Since you drained all the color out of the sky
How am I supposed to feel?
It's like I'm livin' in somebody else's life
Tell me it's not real
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
Like we never had a falling out
Like the tears had never hit the ground
Like you're still here
You're still here
Since you drained all the color out of the sky
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
Just when I'm trying to get over you
I tell my heart but I can't seem to comprehend
A day without you
Now you've carved out a life
But I wear the scars
Reminding me by the hour
That it's time to accept that's the way the things are
I wish I could but
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
Since you drained all the color out of the sky
How am I supposed to feel?
It's like I'm livin' in somebody else's life
Tell me it's not real
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
Like we never had a falling out
Like the tears had never hit the ground
Like you're still here
You're still here
Since you drained all the color out of the sky
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
I can't imagine it any other way
A world without you is only wasted space
You're gone and I'll always wonder
Why it can't be any other way?
Any other way
Lyrics submitted by panickedparadox
Any Other Way Lyrics as written by Jess Clayton Cates Lindy Robbins
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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