"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.
Everybody wants to
Look into the mirror
And feel a little better now
And everybody wants to
Know there's someone out there
Waiting for you to come around
And I wish that
You could feel it
But you don't choose to believe it
cause I know that
You can't see it that way
That way
If you could only just stop stop stop running
If you could only take a second to breath it in
Everything that you know would be beautiful
Like you
You know that I never gonna stop stop stop your love
Let's pretend that the world is waking up
Everything that we see is beautiful
Like you
Like you
Everybody wants to
Tell someone their secrets
Why don't you tell me now
Or maybe I can fix this
Then I don't want
You to miss this
Say I'm sorry
Raining down
Yeah
If you could only just stop stop stop running
If you could only take a second to breath it in
Everything that you know would be beautiful
Like you
You know that I never gonna stop stop stop your love
Let's pretend that the world is waking up
Everything that we see is beautiful
Like you
Sometimes is hard to be
Yourself in this crazy world
Sometimes is hard to breath
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Everybody wants to
know there's someone out there
Waiting for you to come around
Come around
If you could only just stop stop stop running
If you could only take a second to breath it in
Everything that you know would be beautiful
Like you
You know that I never gonna stop stop stop your love
Let's pretend that the world is waking up
Everything that we see is beautiful
Like you
Can be beautiful
Like you
Can be beautiful
Like you
Beautiful
Look into the mirror
And feel a little better now
And everybody wants to
Know there's someone out there
Waiting for you to come around
And I wish that
You could feel it
But you don't choose to believe it
cause I know that
You can't see it that way
That way
If you could only just stop stop stop running
If you could only take a second to breath it in
Everything that you know would be beautiful
Like you
You know that I never gonna stop stop stop your love
Let's pretend that the world is waking up
Everything that we see is beautiful
Like you
Like you
Everybody wants to
Tell someone their secrets
Why don't you tell me now
Or maybe I can fix this
Then I don't want
You to miss this
Say I'm sorry
Raining down
Yeah
If you could only just stop stop stop running
If you could only take a second to breath it in
Everything that you know would be beautiful
Like you
You know that I never gonna stop stop stop your love
Let's pretend that the world is waking up
Everything that we see is beautiful
Like you
Sometimes is hard to be
Yourself in this crazy world
Sometimes is hard to breath
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Everybody wants to
know there's someone out there
Waiting for you to come around
Come around
If you could only just stop stop stop running
If you could only take a second to breath it in
Everything that you know would be beautiful
Like you
You know that I never gonna stop stop stop your love
Let's pretend that the world is waking up
Everything that we see is beautiful
Like you
Can be beautiful
Like you
Can be beautiful
Like you
Beautiful
Lyrics submitted by wohschic08
Beautiful Like You Lyrics as written by Thomas Salter Andy Stochansky
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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