"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.
I'm diggin' a grave in the moonlight.
I'm diggin' a grave where we laid.
Hopin' the sun will never come up
And there'll be no compromise again.
We're diggin' a grave in the moonlight.
We're diggin' a grave where we laid.
Hopin' the sun will never come up
And there'll be no compromise again.
I'm diggin' a grave where we laid.
Hopin' the sun will never come up
And there'll be no compromise again.
We're diggin' a grave in the moonlight.
We're diggin' a grave where we laid.
Hopin' the sun will never come up
And there'll be no compromise again.
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Diggin a Grave Lyrics as written by Micah P. Hinson
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I love this song so so much, definitely one of my favourites. Tbh I don't really know what I think it's about, but I'm going to say that it's about someone who has been in a relationship but has broken up due to something (idk maybe an arguement, maybe cheating) and they're now "digging a grave", basically they're burying the relationship, or trying to forget about it because thinking about it might cause them too much pain. "Hoping the sun will never come up" Is like hoping that a new day won't arrive, because a new day coming could mean them 'waking up' from this idea of a perfect relationship. And finally "there'll be no compromise again." Almost gives you the impression that they won't be able to rekindle the relationship, and "again" suggests that they have already had to compromise over something before.