"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.
she let all her feelings bundle up inside, till i told her i was waiting for another girl.
i stuck my nose up one to many times before, now the blame was calling my name insted.
i got to keep my thoughts a-commin' cos i gotta live, i signed the dotted line and i didn't even read what it said.
i left my feelings on the side of the road, thank god they never caught up i'd-a lost the contract.
now i wish i would look at you because you're beautiful, but you cant fool around i want to tell you all the things i never told no one before. i want to live untill i die.
i got to change my face around before we rob this bank. i've got to kiss her hard jukebox to sullies my mistakes.
october surf suitcase fish shes dying to know, who's your daddy?, where were you born?
i stuck my nose up one to many times before, now the blame was calling my name insted.
i got to keep my thoughts a-commin' cos i gotta live, i signed the dotted line and i didn't even read what it said.
i left my feelings on the side of the road, thank god they never caught up i'd-a lost the contract.
now i wish i would look at you because you're beautiful, but you cant fool around i want to tell you all the things i never told no one before. i want to live untill i die.
i got to change my face around before we rob this bank. i've got to kiss her hard jukebox to sullies my mistakes.
october surf suitcase fish shes dying to know, who's your daddy?, where were you born?
Lyrics submitted by tikidolphins
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wow wow WOW.. awesome lyrics!
and I swear he's saying 'I wanna eat your butt, lick it good because you're beautiful" in the chorus!
totally agree with doyle; i feel like he's saying:
"i wanna eat your butt, lick it down, because you're beautiful" "i wanna kiss your neck, kiss it down, because you're beautiful."