"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.
Lovely one
Gemstone eyes
Is this our last in disguise
Panicked to say I've become undone
Gasping for air
Gold dust heart
Could this be where we start
Truth be bold
I wouldn't dare
Brain in a box
Thoughts reverberate
Sunlight growing thin
No reason to wait
But I ought
Moonlit waltz
To Piero's song
An idea of you
To be fond
Am I at fault
Did I cling tightly to the shadow
Swallowed it whole
Hook, line, linger
Brain in a box
Thoughts reverberate
Sunlight growing thin
No reason to wait
But I ought
Gemstone eyes
Is this our last in disguise
Panicked to say I've become undone
Gasping for air
Gold dust heart
Could this be where we start
Truth be bold
I wouldn't dare
Brain in a box
Thoughts reverberate
Sunlight growing thin
No reason to wait
But I ought
Moonlit waltz
To Piero's song
An idea of you
To be fond
Am I at fault
Did I cling tightly to the shadow
Swallowed it whole
Hook, line, linger
Brain in a box
Thoughts reverberate
Sunlight growing thin
No reason to wait
But I ought
Lyrics submitted by aaron_kaump, edited by monkeydoe
i ought Lyrics as written by Kayleigh Shults
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