"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.
Lost a day...
Lost a love...
Lost a day...
Lost a love...
Beloved on the path of memory
Left alone, you stayed on the desolate shore
Your tears flowing to only the sound of the waves
Those tears equaling an ocean
Painfully, you suffer
With the twilight and the soft waves
On that day, you make me follow you
"Am I not right for you?"
"Don't you care for me anymore?"
You were trembling so much
"So we won't meet again?"
"Can't you say anything?"
As you couldn't stop crying
"Don't go anywhere..."
"I can't be alone..."
You clung to me as you wept
I can't see you anymore
I can't breathe anymore, since I'm always worrying about the one important to me...
Lost a day...
I can't forget when you held me, when I felt your simple love
The times we kissed, when we laughed on the phone
That time when I held you with all my strength
"Am I not right for you?"
"Don't you care for me anymore?"
You were trembling so much
"So we won't meet again?"
"Can't you say anything?"
As you couldn't stop crying
"Don't go anywhere..."
"I can't be alone..."
You clung to me as you wept
I can't see you anymore
I can't breathe anymore, since I began to kiss you sadly
"Don't look back..."
"Don't make it seem like you'll come back to me..."
You laughed while crying
You wrote in the sand
Our names can be heard quietly in the waves...
Being like this, my voice can't help but waver
So, as for me, what do you think I can do...
Lost a day...
Lost a love...
Lost a love...
Lost a day...
Lost a love...
Beloved on the path of memory
Left alone, you stayed on the desolate shore
Your tears flowing to only the sound of the waves
Those tears equaling an ocean
Painfully, you suffer
With the twilight and the soft waves
On that day, you make me follow you
"Am I not right for you?"
"Don't you care for me anymore?"
You were trembling so much
"So we won't meet again?"
"Can't you say anything?"
As you couldn't stop crying
"Don't go anywhere..."
"I can't be alone..."
You clung to me as you wept
I can't see you anymore
I can't breathe anymore, since I'm always worrying about the one important to me...
Lost a day...
I can't forget when you held me, when I felt your simple love
The times we kissed, when we laughed on the phone
That time when I held you with all my strength
"Am I not right for you?"
"Don't you care for me anymore?"
You were trembling so much
"So we won't meet again?"
"Can't you say anything?"
As you couldn't stop crying
"Don't go anywhere..."
"I can't be alone..."
You clung to me as you wept
I can't see you anymore
I can't breathe anymore, since I began to kiss you sadly
"Don't look back..."
"Don't make it seem like you'll come back to me..."
You laughed while crying
You wrote in the sand
Our names can be heard quietly in the waves...
Being like this, my voice can't help but waver
So, as for me, what do you think I can do...
Lost a day...
Lost a love...
Lyrics submitted by Yenpie
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