"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.
So you lied to yourself, and you tortured your health.
Touch my feelings touch my hand, see the footprint in the sand, flip it over spin it around, let them settle for now, you must try to understand, at my age I have free hands, so now look into my eyes, you'll see youth on the rise.
Chorus: So you lied to yourself, and you tortured your health, youth is so awkward, I youth is so much more than fun, don't take this for granted, you'll taste it well on down the line.
Hey man you owe me for the beer, or should I owe you for the gear, put your money to your mouth because the guilt's shining out, did he seek her out again, when his spark was feeling dead, did he reach for her thigh, because he longed to be dry.
Chorus: So you lied to yourself, and you tortured your health, youth is so awkward, I youth is so much more than fun, don't take this for granted, you'll taste it well on down the line.
Some youths are stained by their raw survival game, pooling their money as they watch their siblings grow, some lives are tarred by a strong religious brush, they give their youth to the spirit to which they pray - and you will, you will be saved. (X 4)
Touch my feelings touch my hand, see the footprint in the sand, flip it over spin it around, let them settle for now, you must try to understand, at my age I have free hands, so now look into my eyes, you'll see youth on the rise.
And I must say I’m impressed, by the man inside your head, and I must say I’m okay, but I’ll be on my way, the torch is burning in your heart, I can see this as clear as mud, sometimes you’re as naive, as they rustle in the trees.
Chorus: So you lied to yourself, and you tortured your health, youth is so awkward, I youth is so much more than fun, don't take this for granted, you'll taste it well on down the line. -
Youth is so awkward, I youth is so much more than fun, don't take this for granted, you'll taste it well on down the line.
Touch my feelings touch my hand, see the footprint in the sand, flip it over spin it around, let them settle for now, you must try to understand, at my age I have free hands, so now look into my eyes, you'll see youth on the rise.
Chorus: So you lied to yourself, and you tortured your health, youth is so awkward, I youth is so much more than fun, don't take this for granted, you'll taste it well on down the line.
Hey man you owe me for the beer, or should I owe you for the gear, put your money to your mouth because the guilt's shining out, did he seek her out again, when his spark was feeling dead, did he reach for her thigh, because he longed to be dry.
Chorus: So you lied to yourself, and you tortured your health, youth is so awkward, I youth is so much more than fun, don't take this for granted, you'll taste it well on down the line.
Some youths are stained by their raw survival game, pooling their money as they watch their siblings grow, some lives are tarred by a strong religious brush, they give their youth to the spirit to which they pray - and you will, you will be saved. (X 4)
Touch my feelings touch my hand, see the footprint in the sand, flip it over spin it around, let them settle for now, you must try to understand, at my age I have free hands, so now look into my eyes, you'll see youth on the rise.
And I must say I’m impressed, by the man inside your head, and I must say I’m okay, but I’ll be on my way, the torch is burning in your heart, I can see this as clear as mud, sometimes you’re as naive, as they rustle in the trees.
Chorus: So you lied to yourself, and you tortured your health, youth is so awkward, I youth is so much more than fun, don't take this for granted, you'll taste it well on down the line. -
Youth is so awkward, I youth is so much more than fun, don't take this for granted, you'll taste it well on down the line.
Lyrics submitted by xcrossox
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