"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.
To the multi-story car park
With our friends
Drinking from a bottle
Of white lightning
On top of marks and sparks
Roof running
Smoking
Chronic
Hectic
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
We'll convene at mine 3PM to play Sega Megadrive Golden Axe and Sonic all day
Never Played It? (I'll Teach Ya)
Can't Hack It? (I'll Beat Ya)
Whilst Pendell's making rhymes in the corner with a litre of finest Scrumpy Jack,
Whilst PDEX pumps out the latest big club track
We'll take it to Justin's and hit his King Kong
Then we'll gather round the piano for a little sing song.
Oh if I could kidnap that feeling
The one that melts all fear's from your mind
I'd make no demands, no ransom.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
Oh if I could kidnap that feeling
The one that melts all fear's from your mind
I'd make no demands, no ransom.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
All false Halcyon days
And Halcyon nights
Before we began to realize
That these aren't right.
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
With our friends
Drinking from a bottle
Of white lightning
On top of marks and sparks
Roof running
Smoking
Chronic
Hectic
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
We'll convene at mine 3PM to play Sega Megadrive Golden Axe and Sonic all day
Never Played It? (I'll Teach Ya)
Can't Hack It? (I'll Beat Ya)
Whilst Pendell's making rhymes in the corner with a litre of finest Scrumpy Jack,
Whilst PDEX pumps out the latest big club track
We'll take it to Justin's and hit his King Kong
Then we'll gather round the piano for a little sing song.
Oh if I could kidnap that feeling
The one that melts all fear's from your mind
I'd make no demands, no ransom.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
Oh if I could kidnap that feeling
The one that melts all fear's from your mind
I'd make no demands, no ransom.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
'Cause I'd never set it free.
All false Halcyon days
And Halcyon nights
Before we began to realize
That these aren't right.
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
And it seems that
Nothing now will ever change.
And it seems that
Were on our own again
Lyrics submitted by hawtpawkithero, edited by BlueDiamondx3
Hectic Lyrics as written by Liam Rory Clewlow Chris Batten
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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