"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.
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
I'm packed and I'm holding, I'm smiling
She living, she golden and she lives for me
Says she lives for me, ovation her own motivation
She comes round and she goes down on me
And I make her smile like a drug for you
Do ever what you want to do, coming over you
Keep on smiling what we go through
One stop to the rhythm that divides you
And I speak to you like the chorus to the verse
Chop another line like a coda with a curse
Come on like a freak show takes the stage
We give them the games we play
She said I want something else
To get me through this semi-charmed kind of life
Baby, baby, I want something else
I'm not listening when you say goodbye
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
The sky was gold, it was rose
I was taking sips of it to my nose
And I wish I could get back there
Some place back there
Smiling in the pictures you would take
Doing crystal myth will lift you up until you break
It won't stop, I won't come down, I keep stock
With a tick tock rhythm and a bump for the drop
And then I bumped up, I took the hit I was given
Then I bumped again and then I bumped again she said
How do I get back there to the place where I fell asleep inside you
How do I get myself back to the place where you said
I want something else
To get me through this semi-charmed kind of life
Baby, baby, I want something else
I'm not listening when you say goodbye
I believe in the sand beneath my toes
The beach gives a feeling, an earthy feeling
I believe in the faith that grows
And the four right chords can make me cry
When I'm with you I feel like I could die and that would be all right
I want something else
To get me through this life
Baby, I want something else
Not listening when you say goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
The sky was gold it was rose
I was taking sips of it to my nose
And I wish I could get back there
Some place back there in the place we used to cry
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
I'm packed and I'm holding, I'm smiling
She living, she golden and she lives for me
Says she lives for me, ovation her own motivation
She comes round and she goes down on me
And I make her smile like a drug for you
Do ever what you want to do, coming over you
Keep on smiling what we go through
One stop to the rhythm that divides you
And I speak to you like the chorus to the verse
Chop another line like a coda with a curse
Come on like a freak show takes the stage
We give them the games we play
She said I want something else
To get me through this semi-charmed kind of life
Baby, baby, I want something else
I'm not listening when you say goodbye
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
The sky was gold, it was rose
I was taking sips of it to my nose
And I wish I could get back there
Some place back there
Smiling in the pictures you would take
Doing crystal myth will lift you up until you break
It won't stop, I won't come down, I keep stock
With a tick tock rhythm and a bump for the drop
And then I bumped up, I took the hit I was given
Then I bumped again and then I bumped again she said
How do I get back there to the place where I fell asleep inside you
How do I get myself back to the place where you said
I want something else
To get me through this semi-charmed kind of life
Baby, baby, I want something else
I'm not listening when you say goodbye
I believe in the sand beneath my toes
The beach gives a feeling, an earthy feeling
I believe in the faith that grows
And the four right chords can make me cry
When I'm with you I feel like I could die and that would be all right
I want something else
To get me through this life
Baby, I want something else
Not listening when you say goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
The sky was gold it was rose
I was taking sips of it to my nose
And I wish I could get back there
Some place back there in the place we used to cry
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo
Lyrics submitted by aristuma21
Semi-Charmed Life Lyrics as written by Stephan Douglas Jenkins
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