"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 lay down and watch the sun come up
don't know how long it's been since my eyes were shut
and they're burning, i'm twisting, snd turning
a lonely night, a tired morning
i'm isolated, awake at five am
unmotivated, unplugging the clock again
i lose track of when this day ends and the next one begins
so eventually..
i'll take another pill to fall asleep
and slip into unconscious reality
i slowly fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
i walk around like an outcast to all the lights and sounds,
losing grip of everything
i daze away and dream more in the day
wasting time losing sleep, i can't escape
i'll make it somehow, i'm not sure
just how that may be
i'll fake it 'till i find a cure,
i'll just assume for now i'll have to..
take another pill to fall asleep
and slip into unconscious reality
i slowly fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
i'm never really awake
but i'm not asleep, no i'm not asleep
i slowly fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
and don't wake please wake me up
('cause i'm not here to answer)
and don't wake, please wake me up
(can't you hear my pleading?)
i'll make it somehow, i'm not sure
i'll just assume for now i'll have to..
take another pill to fall asleep
and slip into unconscious reality
i slowly fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
i'm never really awake
but i'm not asleep, no i'm not asleep
i try to fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
i'm never really awake
but i'm not asleep, no i'm not asleep
i try to fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
(woah oh oh, woah oh oh-oh
woah oh oh, woah oh oh)
don't know how long it's been since my eyes were shut
and they're burning, i'm twisting, snd turning
a lonely night, a tired morning
i'm isolated, awake at five am
unmotivated, unplugging the clock again
i lose track of when this day ends and the next one begins
so eventually..
i'll take another pill to fall asleep
and slip into unconscious reality
i slowly fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
i walk around like an outcast to all the lights and sounds,
losing grip of everything
i daze away and dream more in the day
wasting time losing sleep, i can't escape
i'll make it somehow, i'm not sure
just how that may be
i'll fake it 'till i find a cure,
i'll just assume for now i'll have to..
take another pill to fall asleep
and slip into unconscious reality
i slowly fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
i'm never really awake
but i'm not asleep, no i'm not asleep
i slowly fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
and don't wake please wake me up
('cause i'm not here to answer)
and don't wake, please wake me up
(can't you hear my pleading?)
i'll make it somehow, i'm not sure
i'll just assume for now i'll have to..
take another pill to fall asleep
and slip into unconscious reality
i slowly fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
i'm never really awake
but i'm not asleep, no i'm not asleep
i try to fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
i'm never really awake
but i'm not asleep, no i'm not asleep
i try to fade away and begin this dream
where the pieces fit so easily
(woah oh oh, woah oh oh-oh
woah oh oh, woah oh oh)
Lyrics submitted by jessicles
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