"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.
Afraid it won't come round again
Afraid to move on
Wishing I could go back when
When everything was easier and meaningful to me
Wanting all we left behind
Like its the answer
An hour glass we can't rewind
Holding back the life that I've been at for so long
Can I find my way to you
And after all that we've been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
'Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come
A photograph's still in my hands
Afraid to let it go
The minutes rain like grains of sand
And time is just a war that's stealing dreams from within
So come and take them back again
And after all that we've been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
'Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come
I won't turn around
Let it all slip away
I'm never backing down
'Cause tomorrow's a new day
And everything can change
And after all that we've been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
'Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come
I still believe the best is yet to come
The best is yet to come
I still believe the best is yet to come
Afraid to move on
Wishing I could go back when
When everything was easier and meaningful to me
Wanting all we left behind
Like its the answer
An hour glass we can't rewind
Holding back the life that I've been at for so long
Can I find my way to you
And after all that we've been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
'Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come
A photograph's still in my hands
Afraid to let it go
The minutes rain like grains of sand
And time is just a war that's stealing dreams from within
So come and take them back again
And after all that we've been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
'Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come
I won't turn around
Let it all slip away
I'm never backing down
'Cause tomorrow's a new day
And everything can change
And after all that we've been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
'Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come
I still believe the best is yet to come
The best is yet to come
I still believe the best is yet to come
Lyrics submitted by MusicFREAK20
Best Is Yet to Come Lyrics as written by Mark Holman Jasen Rauch
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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