"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.
Motionless I fall down, from waiting for nothing.
Tired of scream my lungs out, cuz I have given up on you.
The only thing that I've found.
It's easy. To gerget when your unconscious.
and I forgot for so many nights in a row.
I miss the way your heartbeats I still feel it beating
If I counted my sleepless nights, I'd be up and counting. (every night)
but then you said the words. I miss you and I'm so. so over it.
You know I'm such a sucker for the way you say you're sorry.
You got my heartbeat racing again, like you wouldn't believe.
I would take it back in a heartbeat.
I know this. I'm lost without you.
I can't got back. cuz I need to be the one you're saving.
Sunday's best we're never perfect and my regrets could never surface.
(tell me) tell me tell me once again...
How I'm the best part of believing.
4 am, it's pointless.
To think I'll be sleeping next to you.
Pills won't hold me back.
the way I'd remember holding on to you.
It's scary to think how I line my walls with lyrics to all your favorite songs
and how I still wear my heart on my sleeve to see.
exactly what it's missing. You from me.
I would take it back in a heartbeat.
I know this. I'm lost without you.
I can't got back. cuz I need to be the one you're saving.
Sunday's best we're never perfect and my regrets could never surface.
(tell me) tell me tell me once again...
How I'm the best part of believing.
You can catch me on the rooftop
I'll be the on screaming
Your name at the top of my lungs.
It's a certain grave I do everything for you in vain.
I open up and fall right on my face
I would take it back in a heartbeat.
I know this. I'm lost without you.
I can't got back. cuz I need to be the one you're saving.
Sunday's best we're never perfect and my regrets could never surface.
(tell me) tell me tell me once again...
How I'm the best part of believing.
Tired of scream my lungs out, cuz I have given up on you.
The only thing that I've found.
It's easy. To gerget when your unconscious.
and I forgot for so many nights in a row.
I miss the way your heartbeats I still feel it beating
If I counted my sleepless nights, I'd be up and counting. (every night)
but then you said the words. I miss you and I'm so. so over it.
You know I'm such a sucker for the way you say you're sorry.
You got my heartbeat racing again, like you wouldn't believe.
I would take it back in a heartbeat.
I know this. I'm lost without you.
I can't got back. cuz I need to be the one you're saving.
Sunday's best we're never perfect and my regrets could never surface.
(tell me) tell me tell me once again...
How I'm the best part of believing.
4 am, it's pointless.
To think I'll be sleeping next to you.
Pills won't hold me back.
the way I'd remember holding on to you.
It's scary to think how I line my walls with lyrics to all your favorite songs
and how I still wear my heart on my sleeve to see.
exactly what it's missing. You from me.
I would take it back in a heartbeat.
I know this. I'm lost without you.
I can't got back. cuz I need to be the one you're saving.
Sunday's best we're never perfect and my regrets could never surface.
(tell me) tell me tell me once again...
How I'm the best part of believing.
You can catch me on the rooftop
I'll be the on screaming
Your name at the top of my lungs.
It's a certain grave I do everything for you in vain.
I open up and fall right on my face
I would take it back in a heartbeat.
I know this. I'm lost without you.
I can't got back. cuz I need to be the one you're saving.
Sunday's best we're never perfect and my regrets could never surface.
(tell me) tell me tell me once again...
How I'm the best part of believing.
Lyrics submitted by fueledbytomothy
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