"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.
Made something better, he kept it for himself
I'm not that stupid, I just need a lot of help
To understand how stupid you really are
Down at the bottom of the ocean I lay down
Nobody's coming, just continue to drown
And no one here could ever stop my ruin now now
And I know I've got not to fear
You'll get me out
Oh god just get me out of here
Are you astounding us, surrounding us
And asphyxiate all your pain away
Don't try to win it will only end in disgrace
Nobody's daughter, she never was, she never will
Be beholden to anyone she cannot kill
You don't understand how damaged we really are
You don't understand how evil we really are
And I will dig my own grave
I'm miss begotten
I am the last one you save here
Of course I'll sleep forever and forever
Anesthetize all your horrors away
We live inside this black web that you have spun
Greed, your bile is miles away
Don't tell me I have I lost when clearly I've won
I want to see you stretched out on the floor
The world broken doll
The world's shattered whore
And you you can't walk
But you you can crawl
Come on infect us all
Asphyxiate all your pain away
Don't try to win it will only end in disgrace
Translucetize the cold light of day
It's glorious, its terrible god I need it
It's beautiful it's ravenous; I'll just feed it
Coil down to your black dark decay
And I will dig my own grave now
I'm miss begotten
I am the last one you save here
It's all gone rotten
I'm not that stupid, I just need a lot of help
To understand how stupid you really are
Down at the bottom of the ocean I lay down
Nobody's coming, just continue to drown
And no one here could ever stop my ruin now now
And I know I've got not to fear
You'll get me out
Oh god just get me out of here
Are you astounding us, surrounding us
And asphyxiate all your pain away
Don't try to win it will only end in disgrace
Nobody's daughter, she never was, she never will
Be beholden to anyone she cannot kill
You don't understand how damaged we really are
You don't understand how evil we really are
And I will dig my own grave
I'm miss begotten
I am the last one you save here
Of course I'll sleep forever and forever
Anesthetize all your horrors away
We live inside this black web that you have spun
Greed, your bile is miles away
Don't tell me I have I lost when clearly I've won
I want to see you stretched out on the floor
The world broken doll
The world's shattered whore
And you you can't walk
But you you can crawl
Come on infect us all
Asphyxiate all your pain away
Don't try to win it will only end in disgrace
Translucetize the cold light of day
It's glorious, its terrible god I need it
It's beautiful it's ravenous; I'll just feed it
Coil down to your black dark decay
And I will dig my own grave now
I'm miss begotten
I am the last one you save here
It's all gone rotten
Lyrics submitted by deadweather
Nobody's Daughter Lyrics as written by Mickro Larkin Michael Beinhorn
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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