"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 was walking, was living
My melody was acapella
There's a beat I was missing
No tune or a scale I could play
No sound in the distance
No orchestra playing together
Like a boat out to sea
The silence was too deafening
So come and revive me
I can't feel my heartbeat
It's just me surviving alone
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Everything was the same
One color was just like the others
An assembly routine
My memories were all black and white
'Til I stopped overthinking
Decided to draw back the curtains
And I cleared all the cobwebs
And began to let in the light
So come and revive me
I can't feel my heartbeat
It's just me surviving alone
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
You got the drum in my heartbeat
Bass and guitar lead
Stuck on the notes you play
My heart that you play on
Red like a crayon
I can't walk away
You got the drum in my heartbeat
Bass and guitar lead
Stuck on the notes you play
My heart that you play on
Red like a crayon
I can't walk away
You got the drum in my heartbeat
Bass and guitar lead
Stuck on the notes you play
My heart that you play on
Red like a crayon
I can't walk away
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
My melody was acapella
There's a beat I was missing
No tune or a scale I could play
No sound in the distance
No orchestra playing together
Like a boat out to sea
The silence was too deafening
So come and revive me
I can't feel my heartbeat
It's just me surviving alone
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Everything was the same
One color was just like the others
An assembly routine
My memories were all black and white
'Til I stopped overthinking
Decided to draw back the curtains
And I cleared all the cobwebs
And began to let in the light
So come and revive me
I can't feel my heartbeat
It's just me surviving alone
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
You got the drum in my heartbeat
Bass and guitar lead
Stuck on the notes you play
My heart that you play on
Red like a crayon
I can't walk away
You got the drum in my heartbeat
Bass and guitar lead
Stuck on the notes you play
My heart that you play on
Red like a crayon
I can't walk away
You got the drum in my heartbeat
Bass and guitar lead
Stuck on the notes you play
My heart that you play on
Red like a crayon
I can't walk away
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Before you
My whole life was acapella
Now a symphony's the only song to sing
Lyrics submitted by egyptiansushi
Acapella Lyrics as written by Frederic Riesterer David Pierre Guetta
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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