"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.
How many years have passed me by?
Since I've stopped to take a look at all the changes in my life.
So many friends have come and gone.
But all those summer nights still burn inside my lungs.
I hope you will not forget this either.
Forever.
And I bet I'm not the only one who thinks.
I'm stuck in the past with all the friends I'm losing.
I regret not holding on closely.
The past it the past, and I'm letting it kill me.
If I just had one wish I'll tell you what it'd be.
I'd bring back all the bands inside the dome.
And one last time have a fucking show.
Life is what you make it, and I believe in this.
What happened to the familiar faces I've come to miss.
And I bet I'm not the only one who thinks.
I'm stuck in the past with all the friends I'm losing.
I regret not holding on closely.
The past is the past, and I'm letting it kill me.
This sinking ship can't hold much water.
How much longer?
How much longer?
Until these lights are dead and gone.
I will scatter the ashes of what's left of this place I call home.
And to fight this fatal attraction,
Just to sit inside and hang my head too low.
Living in the shadows of the scars.
The past defines just who we are.
And I bet I'm not the only one who thinks.
I'm stuck in the past with all the friends I'm losing.
I regret not holding on closely.
The past is the past and I'm letting it kill me.
The past lives.
Since I've stopped to take a look at all the changes in my life.
So many friends have come and gone.
But all those summer nights still burn inside my lungs.
I hope you will not forget this either.
Forever.
And I bet I'm not the only one who thinks.
I'm stuck in the past with all the friends I'm losing.
I regret not holding on closely.
The past it the past, and I'm letting it kill me.
If I just had one wish I'll tell you what it'd be.
I'd bring back all the bands inside the dome.
And one last time have a fucking show.
Life is what you make it, and I believe in this.
What happened to the familiar faces I've come to miss.
And I bet I'm not the only one who thinks.
I'm stuck in the past with all the friends I'm losing.
I regret not holding on closely.
The past is the past, and I'm letting it kill me.
This sinking ship can't hold much water.
How much longer?
How much longer?
Until these lights are dead and gone.
I will scatter the ashes of what's left of this place I call home.
And to fight this fatal attraction,
Just to sit inside and hang my head too low.
Living in the shadows of the scars.
The past defines just who we are.
And I bet I'm not the only one who thinks.
I'm stuck in the past with all the friends I'm losing.
I regret not holding on closely.
The past is the past and I'm letting it kill me.
The past lives.
Lyrics submitted by Metalcorekid88
Cobwebs Lyrics as written by Richard Allen Olson Chris Cerulli
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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If I just had one wish I'll tell you what it'd be. I'd bring back all the bands inside the dome. And one last time have a fucking show.