"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.
City lights the water as the snow forgets the sky
And we're staring at the bridges just like every other night
We've been watching for a miracle
We're praying for a sign
When the cure is made of poison then it's hard to rest your eyes
If it's time
Oh
Lord
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
Heavens shake with anger and the clouds
They curse the ground
And I'm screaming for an answer but the darkness blinds me now
We will not survive on misery
We will fill ourselves with love
We are searching
We are hopeful
We are anything but lost
If it's time
Oh
Lord
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
I see the stars in black and white
I pray to God most every night
I see the stars in black and white
And I pray to God most every night
(Shoot out the lights)
I see the stars in black and white
(Shoot out the lights)
(Shoot out the lights)
And I pray to God most every night
(Shoot out the lights)
(Shoot out the lights)
And I see the stars
I see the stars
(Shoot out the lights)
I see the stars
I see the stars
(Shoot out the lights)
I see the stars most every night
(Shoot out the lights)
(I see the stars in black and white)
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
(I pray to God most every night)
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
(I see the stars in black and white)
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
(I pray to God most every night)
Shoot out the lights
(I see the stars)
(I see the stars)
I see the stars in black and white
And I pray to God
I pray to God
And we're staring at the bridges just like every other night
We've been watching for a miracle
We're praying for a sign
When the cure is made of poison then it's hard to rest your eyes
If it's time
Oh
Lord
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
Heavens shake with anger and the clouds
They curse the ground
And I'm screaming for an answer but the darkness blinds me now
We will not survive on misery
We will fill ourselves with love
We are searching
We are hopeful
We are anything but lost
If it's time
Oh
Lord
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
I see the stars in black and white
I pray to God most every night
I see the stars in black and white
And I pray to God most every night
(Shoot out the lights)
I see the stars in black and white
(Shoot out the lights)
(Shoot out the lights)
And I pray to God most every night
(Shoot out the lights)
(Shoot out the lights)
And I see the stars
I see the stars
(Shoot out the lights)
I see the stars
I see the stars
(Shoot out the lights)
I see the stars most every night
(Shoot out the lights)
(I see the stars in black and white)
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
(I pray to God most every night)
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
(I see the stars in black and white)
Shoot out the lights
Shoot out the lights
(I pray to God most every night)
Shoot out the lights
(I see the stars)
(I see the stars)
I see the stars in black and white
And I pray to God
I pray to God
Lyrics submitted by emma.rubiks
Shoot Out The Lights Lyrics as written by Ronald Michael Pope
Lyrics © Bluewater Music Corp.
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From his FanPage "Ron Pope I wrote Shoot Out The Lights for Grandma when she got cancer. That's me telling her that she's not alone. She got better, thank God."