"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.
On the day you were born
The sun filled my eyes
I fell within the wars that rise
What were you here for?
What will you find?
Could I save your life, like you saved mine?
[chorus]
Wait until the morning comes around
Wait for something beautiful
Wait to see if worry turns around
Wait, please wait
I tried to keep you from
Everything that was
So difficult for me
But it makes you strong
When you hurt so long
I'll put it all in faith that you won't leave
[chorus]
And I'll wait until the morning comes around
Wait for something beautiful
Wait to see if worry turns around
Wait, I'll wait
Looking up now you see that
Everyone seems so happy
The crooked somehow keep breathing
When you couldn't be so happy
Maybe they just don't know
Maybe we just don't know
Maybe we just don't know
So I'll wake every morning
Wake with the sun
Were the worst things always
The first things to come?
Find a way to move on and a way to be strong
Because some things do change
Some things come that make
The worst things beautiful
[chorus]
Wait until the morning comes around
Wait for something beautiful
Wait to see if worry turns around
Wait
The sun filled my eyes
I fell within the wars that rise
What were you here for?
What will you find?
Could I save your life, like you saved mine?
[chorus]
Wait until the morning comes around
Wait for something beautiful
Wait to see if worry turns around
Wait, please wait
I tried to keep you from
Everything that was
So difficult for me
But it makes you strong
When you hurt so long
I'll put it all in faith that you won't leave
[chorus]
And I'll wait until the morning comes around
Wait for something beautiful
Wait to see if worry turns around
Wait, I'll wait
Looking up now you see that
Everyone seems so happy
The crooked somehow keep breathing
When you couldn't be so happy
Maybe they just don't know
Maybe we just don't know
Maybe we just don't know
So I'll wake every morning
Wake with the sun
Were the worst things always
The first things to come?
Find a way to move on and a way to be strong
Because some things do change
Some things come that make
The worst things beautiful
[chorus]
Wait until the morning comes around
Wait for something beautiful
Wait to see if worry turns around
Wait
Lyrics submitted by lucdragon, edited by KeroseneFire
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At least that's what it means to me.
all i can think about when i hear this song is the word "wait" and to me it reminds me of the book Siddhartha. Wait, think and fast.
I feel like this dude hooked up with some random girl and hopes that in the morning she thinks of him as something more than a one night stand. Why else would I be so depressed when I hear this song?