"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.
So be nice to me
cause I've never played this game before.
Arriving at your house,
the whole room's been smoked out and I can hardly breathe.
I'll put my coat on what seems to be
an ashtray
and I'll make my way toward the TV.
Stains and empty bottles will try and distract me
but look at us, it's our team.
So be nice to me
cause I've never sang this song before
and there's no place I'd rather be.
So let's drop out of life tonight.
We'll drop out of life tonight.
For lack of a better term: Learn.
'Cause we can only get so far at this pace.
Well look at Matt's face; He's stuck to the armchair eating 20 dollar sustenance.
There's not enough here to cover this.
Win or lose, this is partly mine.
We can keep failing missions from time to time.
We can always just take the jet plane
because there's 10,000 people in Moscow who still don't know our names.
But I have to be up in 4 hours
so please save me to digital memory.
Before you get too attached to me,
I'll be driving home safely.
So you can
forget
the 52-song set,
So be nice to me
cause I've never sang this song before.
(I've never played this song before).
but there's no place I'd rather be
So let's drop out of life tonight, drop out of life tonight.
cause I've never played this game before.
Arriving at your house,
the whole room's been smoked out and I can hardly breathe.
I'll put my coat on what seems to be
an ashtray
and I'll make my way toward the TV.
Stains and empty bottles will try and distract me
but look at us, it's our team.
So be nice to me
cause I've never sang this song before
and there's no place I'd rather be.
So let's drop out of life tonight.
We'll drop out of life tonight.
For lack of a better term: Learn.
'Cause we can only get so far at this pace.
Well look at Matt's face; He's stuck to the armchair eating 20 dollar sustenance.
There's not enough here to cover this.
Win or lose, this is partly mine.
We can keep failing missions from time to time.
We can always just take the jet plane
because there's 10,000 people in Moscow who still don't know our names.
But I have to be up in 4 hours
so please save me to digital memory.
Before you get too attached to me,
I'll be driving home safely.
So you can
forget
the 52-song set,
So be nice to me
cause I've never sang this song before.
(I've never played this song before).
but there's no place I'd rather be
So let's drop out of life tonight, drop out of life tonight.
Lyrics submitted by Jughead5267
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