"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.
I feel asleep
On a foggy night
And when I awoke
Nothing was in sight
Nothing was right
I couldn't see through
The cold, grey mist
All it did was remind me
Of our last kiss
Of the one I miss
I just don't know
What ever went wrong?
You were the only one
Who understood my song
And our days were long
[Chorus]
Is it really true that
Things happen for a reason
That for everything
There is a season
When did you start leavin’?
How do you know
When it's over
When it begins
When it's something more
Than just a friend?
Oh, how do you know?
I’ll be thinking tonight
Searching in this fog
Looking inside this heart
For some happy song
Tell me, what went wrong?
I think it's time
To travel by myself
Meet someone on the way
Maybe get some help
Another story for the shelf
I’m gonna search for answers
So I won't make the same mistake
I’ll find the answer to love
Pick out the real from the fake
Turn away from all this hate
[Chorus]
Is it really true that
Things happen for a reason
That for everything
There is a season?
When did you start leavin’?
How do you know
When it's over
When it begins
When it's something more
Than just a friend?
Oh, how do you know?
On a foggy night
And when I awoke
Nothing was in sight
Nothing was right
I couldn't see through
The cold, grey mist
All it did was remind me
Of our last kiss
Of the one I miss
I just don't know
What ever went wrong?
You were the only one
Who understood my song
And our days were long
[Chorus]
Is it really true that
Things happen for a reason
That for everything
There is a season
When did you start leavin’?
How do you know
When it's over
When it begins
When it's something more
Than just a friend?
Oh, how do you know?
I’ll be thinking tonight
Searching in this fog
Looking inside this heart
For some happy song
Tell me, what went wrong?
I think it's time
To travel by myself
Meet someone on the way
Maybe get some help
Another story for the shelf
I’m gonna search for answers
So I won't make the same mistake
I’ll find the answer to love
Pick out the real from the fake
Turn away from all this hate
[Chorus]
Is it really true that
Things happen for a reason
That for everything
There is a season?
When did you start leavin’?
How do you know
When it's over
When it begins
When it's something more
Than just a friend?
Oh, how do you know?
Lyrics submitted by UnReQuiTeD x L0vE
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