"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.
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
The rain on your face says it all
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
Together we'll fall
Its true I won't believe its not
I feel it from my nose to my toes
I've got no time to figure out why
Before I say I do
Would you like to know what I am thinking?
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
The rain on your face says it all
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
Together we'll fall
And I would like to read your time
Highlight all the best bits
And you could sleep relentlessly
The power of the blind
You see what others can't see
At least that's what you tell me
What other reason could there be
For giving me your heart
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
The rain on your face says it all
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
Together we'll fall
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
The rain on your face says it all
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
Together we'll fall
Together we'll fall
Together we'll fall
Until it comes again
Until it comes again
It used to be it was all I want, my only care
Nothing else had a single part to play in my head
But now times led my mind astray, something was changed along the way
And no amount of tears can bring it back round til it comes again
So maybe we should pretend we're who we want to be
And forget who we really are and where we really be
Cause I've no time to start again but I won't to a bitter end
Can we keep it down til its back round til it comes
Again
Until it comes again, until it comes again
One more time to take the test to make it real
Or one more nail in this relationship make it
Impossible to heal
On the good ship hope we sail but the stars above say
The wind will fail
Can we keep afloat until its back round until it comes again
Until it comes again, until it comes again
Until it comes again, until it comes again
The rain on your face says it all
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
Together we'll fall
Its true I won't believe its not
I feel it from my nose to my toes
I've got no time to figure out why
Before I say I do
Would you like to know what I am thinking?
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
The rain on your face says it all
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
Together we'll fall
And I would like to read your time
Highlight all the best bits
And you could sleep relentlessly
The power of the blind
You see what others can't see
At least that's what you tell me
What other reason could there be
For giving me your heart
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
The rain on your face says it all
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
Together we'll fall
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
The rain on your face says it all
Don't cry dear it ain't worth it
Together we'll fall
Together we'll fall
Together we'll fall
Until it comes again
Until it comes again
It used to be it was all I want, my only care
Nothing else had a single part to play in my head
But now times led my mind astray, something was changed along the way
And no amount of tears can bring it back round til it comes again
So maybe we should pretend we're who we want to be
And forget who we really are and where we really be
Cause I've no time to start again but I won't to a bitter end
Can we keep it down til its back round til it comes
Again
Until it comes again, until it comes again
One more time to take the test to make it real
Or one more nail in this relationship make it
Impossible to heal
On the good ship hope we sail but the stars above say
The wind will fail
Can we keep afloat until its back round until it comes again
Until it comes again, until it comes again
Until it comes again, until it comes again
Lyrics submitted by fistfuloflove
Don't Cry Lyrics as written by Theo Keating Simon William Lord
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Great version of a great song,
You've got two songs mixed together... -_-;