"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.
Worry not, keep the stress in check
Anxiety's a disease, you gotta learn to live with it
Cancer spreads, it'll eat right through
There oughta be a quarantine for people like you
I keep clenching my jaw when I sleep
I ain't got no dental insurance, so I purchased a mouth piece
It helps me collect all my teeth, cause they keep falling out in my dreams
Repeating each step till I'm knee deep in sweat
Till you need deeper sleep between sheets and weak sex
If you need to eat meat then just feed on the flesh
If your will power's weak seekin' ye shall find death
It'll rent it'll lease it'll own you
Can't teach new tricks to in a old school
I've been banned from the bible
But I stand on my own two
Runnin' from something my legs have no clue
Bur nin' through every last nerve that I got
This condition is more than deserved but I'm not
Killing the time I'm ringin' it's neck
Chokin' it out and I'm stealin' its breath
Sucking it in and then blowing a kiss
To the caution I tossed to the wind like this
Worry not, keep the stress in check
Anxiety's a disease, you gotta learn to live with it
Cancer spreads, it'll eat right through
There oughta be a quarantine for people like you
Oh you're scared of the dark? then sleep in the light
You came for the bark but then leave when I bite?
Breakin' a sweat,
You fainting awake wit a fang in your neck
And a pain in your chest
Holes in your power your drained and your wet
When you threw in the towel I caught it like rent
That was well played, you ain't self made
You went from daycare to preschool from K-12 grade
And that's hardwired holding your brain
Not to mention the rules at the house where you stayed
Synagogue mosque or the church where you prayed
As a child tamed like your wild!
Reprogram, deprogram
There ain't nothin' they say we don't know man
They been breakin' our vulnerable people
And claimin' that everything in us is evil
I see them in hell then - but until then
You should chill friend (Just chill!)
Play pretend with the forces of organized
Superstition and get played in the end
I was killing the time I was ringin' it's neck
Chokin' it out and then stealin' its breath
Sucking it in and then blowing a kiss
To the caution I tossed to the wind like this
Worry not, keep the stress in check
Anxiety's a disease, you gotta learn to live with it
Cancer spreads, it'll eat right through
There oughta be a quarantine for people like you
Anxiety's a disease, you gotta learn to live with it
Cancer spreads, it'll eat right through
There oughta be a quarantine for people like you
I keep clenching my jaw when I sleep
I ain't got no dental insurance, so I purchased a mouth piece
It helps me collect all my teeth, cause they keep falling out in my dreams
Repeating each step till I'm knee deep in sweat
Till you need deeper sleep between sheets and weak sex
If you need to eat meat then just feed on the flesh
If your will power's weak seekin' ye shall find death
It'll rent it'll lease it'll own you
Can't teach new tricks to in a old school
I've been banned from the bible
But I stand on my own two
Runnin' from something my legs have no clue
Bur nin' through every last nerve that I got
This condition is more than deserved but I'm not
Killing the time I'm ringin' it's neck
Chokin' it out and I'm stealin' its breath
Sucking it in and then blowing a kiss
To the caution I tossed to the wind like this
Worry not, keep the stress in check
Anxiety's a disease, you gotta learn to live with it
Cancer spreads, it'll eat right through
There oughta be a quarantine for people like you
Oh you're scared of the dark? then sleep in the light
You came for the bark but then leave when I bite?
Breakin' a sweat,
You fainting awake wit a fang in your neck
And a pain in your chest
Holes in your power your drained and your wet
When you threw in the towel I caught it like rent
That was well played, you ain't self made
You went from daycare to preschool from K-12 grade
And that's hardwired holding your brain
Not to mention the rules at the house where you stayed
Synagogue mosque or the church where you prayed
As a child tamed like your wild!
Reprogram, deprogram
There ain't nothin' they say we don't know man
They been breakin' our vulnerable people
And claimin' that everything in us is evil
I see them in hell then - but until then
You should chill friend (Just chill!)
Play pretend with the forces of organized
Superstition and get played in the end
I was killing the time I was ringin' it's neck
Chokin' it out and then stealin' its breath
Sucking it in and then blowing a kiss
To the caution I tossed to the wind like this
Worry not, keep the stress in check
Anxiety's a disease, you gotta learn to live with it
Cancer spreads, it'll eat right through
There oughta be a quarantine for people like you
Lyrics submitted by anderndenmode
Worry Not Lyrics as written by Tim Fite Sage Francis
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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