"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.
Has anybody else but me
Ever felt this way before
Like the world is spinning
Much too fast
And you're falling through the floor
Struck by lightning
It's so frightening
When the morning feels like war
Unbreakable
(Don't you wish you were)
Unbreakable
[Chorus]
So, when you fall
Down, down, down
Don't get down on you
Don't you know that
Everybody gets
Down, down, down
Why you trying to
Carry the weight of the world
Some folks say that
We've been blessed
And I know deep down
They're right
But when you're feeling cold
Alone and desperate
And can't get through the night
It seems the only time
You test your wings
You're crashing through the sky
Unbreakable
(Don't you wish you were)
Unbreakable
[Chorus]
Has anybody else but me
Ever felt this way before
[Chorus: x2]
I know its hard to see
The way you are right now
I know it's hard to breathe
Just let the world go round
And, round, round, round
Why are you trying to
Carry the weight of the world
(Down, down, down)
Ever felt this way before
Like the world is spinning
Much too fast
And you're falling through the floor
Struck by lightning
It's so frightening
When the morning feels like war
Unbreakable
(Don't you wish you were)
Unbreakable
[Chorus]
So, when you fall
Down, down, down
Don't get down on you
Don't you know that
Everybody gets
Down, down, down
Why you trying to
Carry the weight of the world
Some folks say that
We've been blessed
And I know deep down
They're right
But when you're feeling cold
Alone and desperate
And can't get through the night
It seems the only time
You test your wings
You're crashing through the sky
Unbreakable
(Don't you wish you were)
Unbreakable
[Chorus]
Has anybody else but me
Ever felt this way before
[Chorus: x2]
I know its hard to see
The way you are right now
I know it's hard to breathe
Just let the world go round
And, round, round, round
Why are you trying to
Carry the weight of the world
(Down, down, down)
Lyrics submitted by dontwasteyoursong
Weight of the World Lyrics as written by Henrik Korpi Kasia Livingston
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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