"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.
Hold the pose, a perfect picture
Just so I remember how you're looking tonight
Let it go, now the days gone
Standing in the dark, although we've turned on the lights
Tonight we will deny, that time is passing by
It's leaving you and I to...
[Chorus]
Freeze
A moment, it's never been better
Freeze
All over, we won't last forever
You said that you're sorry for pushing me
But then smiled when I opened my eyes
I'm gonna
Freeze
A moment, while we're together
Keep the peace, by gones be gone
Coming up the rain under the life that we've made
Under here, we're not so soft
Forgiving the feeling that we put on parade
Tonight we will deny, that time is passing by
It's leaving you and I to...
[Chorus]
Don't stop, gotta know what you got
There's no second chances in life
Don't break, gotta give what you take
With you
Freeze
A moment, it's never been better
Freeze
All over, we won't last forever
Freeze
A moment, it's never been better
I Freeze
All over, we won't last forever
You looked at me with the truth in your eyes
And you said it's ok, you can go
I'm gonna
Freeze
This moment, while we're together
Freeze
A moment
Just so I remember how you're looking tonight
Let it go, now the days gone
Standing in the dark, although we've turned on the lights
Tonight we will deny, that time is passing by
It's leaving you and I to...
[Chorus]
Freeze
A moment, it's never been better
Freeze
All over, we won't last forever
You said that you're sorry for pushing me
But then smiled when I opened my eyes
I'm gonna
Freeze
A moment, while we're together
Keep the peace, by gones be gone
Coming up the rain under the life that we've made
Under here, we're not so soft
Forgiving the feeling that we put on parade
Tonight we will deny, that time is passing by
It's leaving you and I to...
[Chorus]
Don't stop, gotta know what you got
There's no second chances in life
Don't break, gotta give what you take
With you
Freeze
A moment, it's never been better
Freeze
All over, we won't last forever
Freeze
A moment, it's never been better
I Freeze
All over, we won't last forever
You looked at me with the truth in your eyes
And you said it's ok, you can go
I'm gonna
Freeze
This moment, while we're together
Freeze
A moment
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Freeze Lyrics as written by Ian Dench Mikkel Eriksen
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