"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.
Did you get the pictures that I left in your mailbox yesterday
I really wish I�d sent them much earlier when you weren�t so far away
I spoke to my advisors but I can�t decide which class to take
And since you left you left for college what can I teach you now babe
Or can they teach us babe
When we were young I saw you frolicking about the public square
Blowing kisses to the children like some wandering saint
Or a clown you have found today
And when I find the chance to tell you
With my strength I wish you well
With a voice so filled with longing for a purpose or a home
I�d say
This is every letter I never wrote
It�s every dream I never told
Every selfish aspiration
Yesterday morning
After all is said and done
I give the world to you
To see you through
Heavy cardboard storage box was thrown in your backseat
You were driving
For several years of notebook lines must have slipped off the corner of the bed where we slept
And they burst over the landscape like feathers from a cave
Is this the heart I�ve grown to love or just a crinkled page
Such a fleeting age
And here I found the confidence and gall to chase our lofty plans
To claim a stolen seashore will I drift inside a bottle until it lands
I have nothing to give you so I�m borrowing your coat
This is every letter I never wrote
Every tear I meant to cry
Every long slow goodbye
And yesterday morning after all is said and done
I give my love to you
To see you another time cause I�m back on track
Tomorrows facing you
What can I do?
What can I do?
I really wish I�d sent them much earlier when you weren�t so far away
I spoke to my advisors but I can�t decide which class to take
And since you left you left for college what can I teach you now babe
Or can they teach us babe
When we were young I saw you frolicking about the public square
Blowing kisses to the children like some wandering saint
Or a clown you have found today
And when I find the chance to tell you
With my strength I wish you well
With a voice so filled with longing for a purpose or a home
I�d say
This is every letter I never wrote
It�s every dream I never told
Every selfish aspiration
Yesterday morning
After all is said and done
I give the world to you
To see you through
Heavy cardboard storage box was thrown in your backseat
You were driving
For several years of notebook lines must have slipped off the corner of the bed where we slept
And they burst over the landscape like feathers from a cave
Is this the heart I�ve grown to love or just a crinkled page
Such a fleeting age
And here I found the confidence and gall to chase our lofty plans
To claim a stolen seashore will I drift inside a bottle until it lands
I have nothing to give you so I�m borrowing your coat
This is every letter I never wrote
Every tear I meant to cry
Every long slow goodbye
And yesterday morning after all is said and done
I give my love to you
To see you another time cause I�m back on track
Tomorrows facing you
What can I do?
What can I do?
Lyrics submitted by bostonmcd
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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a couple little correction ideas:
"for several years of notebook lines must have slipped..."
"and here i found the confidence and gall..."
i meant notebook on the one, and i spelled gull instead of gall, typo on my part:/ i didn't proof read it after i wrote it out. my bad!
A beautiful song with a beginning that captures ones imagination; Did you get the pictures that I left in your mailbox yesterday? These lyrics can only be written in a time before social media, this way of cumunication goes away with the true meaning of making contact with someone you wish to touch. Joe Knapp captured this true meaning and like many other songs; Sylvia’s Mother and ELO’s Telephone Line would not exist or be written today as its too easy to send a picture, or Send a text.