"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.
3am has come
And grabbed me like a storm
Holding down my head
Making pictures form
Scenes of serenity
Scenes of faded hues
Scenes full of content because they're filled with you
But the sorrow waits just on the other side
And another trace comes out I'll have to hide
I'm drowning on land
It's just as I've planned
I throw myself down the hill towards the rocks and sand
I take my own pill and swallow it whole
I'll never make you understand
Bleed it all right out
Turn my skin to blue
Masking all the light that once was seen by you
I'll hide into the dark
Feel its emptiness
Resonate with it and by it I'll be dressed
One more convoluted piece of scrawly art
One more broken piece pulled right out of the stars
I'm drowning on land
it's just as I've planned
I throw myself down the hill towards the rocks and sand
I take my own pill and swallow it whole
I'll never make you understand
You don't hate yourself enough to love me yet, yet
You don't hate yourself enough to love me yet, yet
You don't hate yourself enough to love me yet, yet
You don't hate yourself enough to love me yet, yet
I hope you never do
You're worth you're weight in gold
And I'm like a distant taste
Just leave me to go old
And grabbed me like a storm
Holding down my head
Making pictures form
Scenes of serenity
Scenes of faded hues
Scenes full of content because they're filled with you
But the sorrow waits just on the other side
And another trace comes out I'll have to hide
I'm drowning on land
It's just as I've planned
I throw myself down the hill towards the rocks and sand
I take my own pill and swallow it whole
I'll never make you understand
Bleed it all right out
Turn my skin to blue
Masking all the light that once was seen by you
I'll hide into the dark
Feel its emptiness
Resonate with it and by it I'll be dressed
One more convoluted piece of scrawly art
One more broken piece pulled right out of the stars
I'm drowning on land
it's just as I've planned
I throw myself down the hill towards the rocks and sand
I take my own pill and swallow it whole
I'll never make you understand
You don't hate yourself enough to love me yet, yet
You don't hate yourself enough to love me yet, yet
You don't hate yourself enough to love me yet, yet
You don't hate yourself enough to love me yet, yet
I hope you never do
You're worth you're weight in gold
And I'm like a distant taste
Just leave me to go old
Lyrics submitted by Breakingbenjaminfan
Sand Lyrics as written by Isaac Kane
Lyrics © MUSIC & MEDIA INT'L, INC., O/B/O DistroKid
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