"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 finally found her but I haven't got a piece of her yet,
And I wanna tell you by the way
I think I've ruined your body
She said "I love you, but you're difficult"
Words I've heard so many times before but those words don't mean a thing,
never meant a thing before you!
I think I found her,
But I haven't found a way to her yet!
I wanna tell you by the way,
I think I've ruined your body!
I want to tell her that I love her,
But I just don't know.
Oh this is terrible!
You sounded sober when you told me to come over,
I could tell it in the sound of your voice.
I know I better be careful
She said I never want to let you go,
She told me so.
Now let me tell you how these steps go.
Step 1, tell me what have I done,
Step 2, you better believe!
Step 3, you'll never be like me so,
Na-na-na-na-na-na-no no
I think I found her,
But I haven't found a way to her yet.
I wanna tell you by the way,
I think I've ruined your body.
I want to tell her that I love her,
But I just don't know.
Oh this is terrible!
And like the rows in the Pastors church,
full of empty sighs and wine..
And all the children have lost their way.
All thier ways with God,
And sunday chruch.
And like the rows in the Pastors church,
full of empty sighs and wine..
And all the children have lost their
I think I found her but,
I'll never let her in
So I guess we'll never know!!
I think I found her,
But I haven't found a way to her yet!
I wanna tell you by the way,
I think I've ruined your body!
I want to tell her that I love her,
But I just don't know.
Oh this is terrible!
Oh this is terrible!
Oh this is terrible!
And I want to tell her that I love her,
But I just don't know.
Oh this is terrible!
And I wanna tell you by the way
I think I've ruined your body
She said "I love you, but you're difficult"
Words I've heard so many times before but those words don't mean a thing,
never meant a thing before you!
I think I found her,
But I haven't found a way to her yet!
I wanna tell you by the way,
I think I've ruined your body!
I want to tell her that I love her,
But I just don't know.
Oh this is terrible!
You sounded sober when you told me to come over,
I could tell it in the sound of your voice.
I know I better be careful
She said I never want to let you go,
She told me so.
Now let me tell you how these steps go.
Step 1, tell me what have I done,
Step 2, you better believe!
Step 3, you'll never be like me so,
Na-na-na-na-na-na-no no
I think I found her,
But I haven't found a way to her yet.
I wanna tell you by the way,
I think I've ruined your body.
I want to tell her that I love her,
But I just don't know.
Oh this is terrible!
And like the rows in the Pastors church,
full of empty sighs and wine..
And all the children have lost their way.
All thier ways with God,
And sunday chruch.
And like the rows in the Pastors church,
full of empty sighs and wine..
And all the children have lost their
I think I found her but,
I'll never let her in
So I guess we'll never know!!
I think I found her,
But I haven't found a way to her yet!
I wanna tell you by the way,
I think I've ruined your body!
I want to tell her that I love her,
But I just don't know.
Oh this is terrible!
Oh this is terrible!
Oh this is terrible!
And I want to tell her that I love her,
But I just don't know.
Oh this is terrible!
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Ok, so maybe:
"And though the roads run past those (trees?) Full of empty sighs and wine and though the children have lost their way"
and this is the part where im not sure. It sounds like:
"All the ways we could, someday could"
But I have no clue...