"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.
standing at the fire escape next to the stairs
I begin to realize just how we got here
your golden hair's draped all over my shoulder
embracing you like I never would hold her
I call you "blue eyes" and you always seem to smile
your happiness brings me up for a while
you watch the sunset while I stare into your eyes
my heart is racing but I don't know why
what if a photo album spoke, would the ink tell the truth?
what about when my heart broke, all the sadness has no proof
I want to be sad but I can't, your smile lifts my spirit
stuck in my heads never-ending rant, the past fades forever and I fear it
I'm walking backwards as I flip throught the pages
looking at my life through all the different stages
the sky ignites with the fire that we've started
night turns to day as the flames are so ardent
I'm so confused, through your pictures I commiserate
knowing as the photos do, the past will desinigrate
like a fairy tale, I take what I remember
now I tell you what I told her in November
what if a photo album spoke, would the ink tell the truth?
what about when my heart broke, all the sadness has no proof
I want to be sad but I can't, your smile lifts my spirit
stuck in my heads never-ending rant, the past fades forever and I fear it
I begin to realize just how we got here
your golden hair's draped all over my shoulder
embracing you like I never would hold her
I call you "blue eyes" and you always seem to smile
your happiness brings me up for a while
you watch the sunset while I stare into your eyes
my heart is racing but I don't know why
what if a photo album spoke, would the ink tell the truth?
what about when my heart broke, all the sadness has no proof
I want to be sad but I can't, your smile lifts my spirit
stuck in my heads never-ending rant, the past fades forever and I fear it
I'm walking backwards as I flip throught the pages
looking at my life through all the different stages
the sky ignites with the fire that we've started
night turns to day as the flames are so ardent
I'm so confused, through your pictures I commiserate
knowing as the photos do, the past will desinigrate
like a fairy tale, I take what I remember
now I tell you what I told her in November
what if a photo album spoke, would the ink tell the truth?
what about when my heart broke, all the sadness has no proof
I want to be sad but I can't, your smile lifts my spirit
stuck in my heads never-ending rant, the past fades forever and I fear it
Lyrics submitted by spcnfene
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