"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.
I stare at lifeless eyes
Like talking to myself
Avoiding questions why
Just like a criminal
What felt like the beginning
Now races to an ending
It's hard to watch you do this again
I sit you down, you blocked it out
Am I something you can live without?
I built you up, you let me down
So I'm begging you to make a sound
I'm desperate to make you see
It's more than just words
I need you hear with me
You're facing disaster
You should know
What's hurting you
Is killing me
You drift away convinced
That this would be your last
You lost yourself again
Denial at its best
What felt like it was working
Seems only to be hurting
It's hard to watch you do this again
Skin and bones have lost their shape
There's a stranger that is in your place
I'm desperate to make you see
It's more than just words
I need you hear with me
You're facing disaster
You should know
What's hurting you
Is killing me
It's like I'm invisible to you
Now I gotta make you see
The poison has pushed away the truth
And it's making me weak
So I wait hoping that the phone doesn't ring
And I hate feeling like I cant save you from this shame
Maybe it's not too late
Skin and bones have lost their shape
There's a stranger that is in your place
I'm desperate to make you see
It's more than just words
I need you hear with me
You're facing disaster
You should know
What's hurting you
Is killing me
Like talking to myself
Avoiding questions why
Just like a criminal
What felt like the beginning
Now races to an ending
It's hard to watch you do this again
I sit you down, you blocked it out
Am I something you can live without?
I built you up, you let me down
So I'm begging you to make a sound
I'm desperate to make you see
It's more than just words
I need you hear with me
You're facing disaster
You should know
What's hurting you
Is killing me
You drift away convinced
That this would be your last
You lost yourself again
Denial at its best
What felt like it was working
Seems only to be hurting
It's hard to watch you do this again
Skin and bones have lost their shape
There's a stranger that is in your place
I'm desperate to make you see
It's more than just words
I need you hear with me
You're facing disaster
You should know
What's hurting you
Is killing me
It's like I'm invisible to you
Now I gotta make you see
The poison has pushed away the truth
And it's making me weak
So I wait hoping that the phone doesn't ring
And I hate feeling like I cant save you from this shame
Maybe it's not too late
Skin and bones have lost their shape
There's a stranger that is in your place
I'm desperate to make you see
It's more than just words
I need you hear with me
You're facing disaster
You should know
What's hurting you
Is killing me
Lyrics submitted by heartbeatsforyou
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