"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.
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don?t really care
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
Right now
It's so amazing how you have so many faces
And you are not that person I thought that
I had fell so deep in love with
You changed up your makeup your DNA
I can?t recognize you?re a stranger to me
I feel so betrayed what a waste of my heart and me
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don?t really care
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
Right now
My body's trembling it's so damn hard
To kick this feeling, your heart is so cold and now I'm freezing
Wish you could feel the pain, maybe I will arrange it
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
You changed up your makeup your DNA
I can?t recognize, you?re a stranger to me
I feel so betrayed, what a waste of my heart and me
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don't really care
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
I thought that we were forever
I guess I misunderstood
My fault for thinking you loved me
Or in thinking you ever could
Get me out of here right now
Get me out of here right now
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don't really care
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don't really care
(You don't really care)
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
1,2,3,4
Right now, right now, right now
Someone get me outta this place
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don?t really care
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
Right now
It's so amazing how you have so many faces
And you are not that person I thought that
I had fell so deep in love with
You changed up your makeup your DNA
I can?t recognize you?re a stranger to me
I feel so betrayed what a waste of my heart and me
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don?t really care
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
Right now
My body's trembling it's so damn hard
To kick this feeling, your heart is so cold and now I'm freezing
Wish you could feel the pain, maybe I will arrange it
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
You changed up your makeup your DNA
I can?t recognize, you?re a stranger to me
I feel so betrayed, what a waste of my heart and me
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don't really care
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
I thought that we were forever
I guess I misunderstood
My fault for thinking you loved me
Or in thinking you ever could
Get me out of here right now
Get me out of here right now
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don't really care
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
Get me outta here
Cuz my eyes are burning
From these silly tears
That you brought when you show me you don't really care
(You don't really care)
And you never loved me, someone get me outta this place
1,2,3,4
Right now, right now, right now
Someone get me outta this place
Get me outta here
Lyrics submitted by dontwasteyoursong
Outta Here Lyrics as written by George Tines V Micha Jones
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid, Royalty Network, REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING
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