"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.
The party is over
But I can't get sober
Obsession is towing me
Deep down down
Love has left the room
It fled out the back door
When all that I asked for
Was forever more
Or a real bye bye
It didn't say bye bye
And I'll let go if you just tell me
Give back the pieces of dreams
That you sell me
They trick my mind
I'll let go if you just let me
I will forget you
If you will forget me
I'll slip your mind
I will slip your mind
Tie me to the mast
Cast me in irons
I hear the sirens
They sing of desire
The fatal kind
This love is my last
My final possession
Most violent caress
It's a beautiful mess
And it's deep down down
It's really deep down down
And I'll let go if you just tell me
Give back the pieces of dreams
That you sell me
They trick my mind
I'll let go if you just let me
I will forget you
If you will forget me
I'll slip your mind
I will slip your mind
Once it settles down
And the fire has burned out
What d'you think you'll find
Poking through the embers
Memories that sting,
Little splinters of your doubt
Things that you can live without
So why die?
Give back the pieces of dreams
That you sell me
And trick my mind
I'll let go if you just let me
I will forget you
If you will forget me
I'll slip your mind
I will slip your mind
But I can't get sober
Obsession is towing me
Deep down down
Love has left the room
It fled out the back door
When all that I asked for
Was forever more
Or a real bye bye
It didn't say bye bye
And I'll let go if you just tell me
Give back the pieces of dreams
That you sell me
They trick my mind
I'll let go if you just let me
I will forget you
If you will forget me
I'll slip your mind
I will slip your mind
Tie me to the mast
Cast me in irons
I hear the sirens
They sing of desire
The fatal kind
This love is my last
My final possession
Most violent caress
It's a beautiful mess
And it's deep down down
It's really deep down down
And I'll let go if you just tell me
Give back the pieces of dreams
That you sell me
They trick my mind
I'll let go if you just let me
I will forget you
If you will forget me
I'll slip your mind
I will slip your mind
Once it settles down
And the fire has burned out
What d'you think you'll find
Poking through the embers
Memories that sting,
Little splinters of your doubt
Things that you can live without
So why die?
Give back the pieces of dreams
That you sell me
And trick my mind
I'll let go if you just let me
I will forget you
If you will forget me
I'll slip your mind
I will slip your mind
Lyrics submitted by ShannonSays, edited by rafaelluik
Love Has Left the Room Lyrics as written by Niclas Patrik Frisk Nathan Peter Larson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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