"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.
Sometimes I swear
We'd be better off alone in this world
We'd be better off alone
You push me further and further away
(From you)
I'm beginning to lose every bit of faith I had in you
We should end this war
With half our men already dead
If I could save them, I would
The bodies cover every inch of the trail
You push me further and further away
From you
I'm beginning to lose every bit of faith I had in you
Carry me to safety without a sound
Carry me to safety without a sound
We're destined for the end
Face the facts
Termination is closing in
I will emerge
And come out of this alive
You push me further and further away
(From you)
I'm beginning to lose every bit of faith I had in you
Carry me to safety without a sound
(Had in you)
Carry me to safety without a
Sometimes I swear
We'd be better off alone in this world
We'd be better off alone
I need my home
This cold and dark place
This place I need to escape
We'd be better off alone in this world
We'd be better off alone
You push me further and further away
(From you)
I'm beginning to lose every bit of faith I had in you
We should end this war
With half our men already dead
If I could save them, I would
The bodies cover every inch of the trail
You push me further and further away
From you
I'm beginning to lose every bit of faith I had in you
Carry me to safety without a sound
Carry me to safety without a sound
We're destined for the end
Face the facts
Termination is closing in
I will emerge
And come out of this alive
You push me further and further away
(From you)
I'm beginning to lose every bit of faith I had in you
Carry me to safety without a sound
(Had in you)
Carry me to safety without a
Sometimes I swear
We'd be better off alone in this world
We'd be better off alone
I need my home
This cold and dark place
This place I need to escape
Lyrics submitted by michaela12345
Carry Me to Safety Lyrics as written by Matthew Ryan Wentworth
Lyrics © MOTHERSHIP MUSIC PUBLISHING
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it's "we started this war with" at the ??Which part in this war?? part
Actually it's "we should end this war"