"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.
Sleepwalking through the daily dark
I got a couple of arrows left to miss my mark
Thank god god made you who you are
Cause if he didnt, any minute I'd be singin it over part
Am I right so far?
I'll be stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Some men got fairness in their soul
One might scamper up a tree, a few might dig a hole
Thank god god made you... ah yeahhh
Cause if he weren't keepin current, how could I understand who's a better man?
I'll be stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Please come back home
I am alone here disappear no less goodbye.
Disembodied bellyaches, do whatever it takes to get me down
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
I'm stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Ooh we're stuck up in the worst of ways
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Cause we're stuck up in the worst of ways...
Stuck up in the worst of ways...
We're stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground.
On the ground, on the ground
I love the people on the ground
looking up at another looking down
Ohh, look at what I found
I need a way to get down
The people on the ground
looking up at another looking down
Look at what I found
I think I got a way to get down
The people on the ground
looking up at another looking down
Look at what I found
I need a way to get down
The people on the ground
looking up at another looking down
Look at what I found
I need a way to get down
I got a couple of arrows left to miss my mark
Thank god god made you who you are
Cause if he didnt, any minute I'd be singin it over part
Am I right so far?
I'll be stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Some men got fairness in their soul
One might scamper up a tree, a few might dig a hole
Thank god god made you... ah yeahhh
Cause if he weren't keepin current, how could I understand who's a better man?
I'll be stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Please come back home
I am alone here disappear no less goodbye.
Disembodied bellyaches, do whatever it takes to get me down
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
I'm stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Ooh we're stuck up in the worst of ways
Stranded in a tree top, I can't get down
Cause we're stuck up in the worst of ways...
Stuck up in the worst of ways...
We're stuck up in the worst of ways cause my heart stays on the ground.
On the ground, on the ground
I love the people on the ground
looking up at another looking down
Ohh, look at what I found
I need a way to get down
The people on the ground
looking up at another looking down
Look at what I found
I think I got a way to get down
The people on the ground
looking up at another looking down
Look at what I found
I need a way to get down
The people on the ground
looking up at another looking down
Look at what I found
I need a way to get down
Lyrics submitted by beonewithall
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