"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.
You crowd around me on the floor
Staring in deservance seeing what I'm fighting for
It's not in you, not like this
I'm only seconds away from giving in
And I'm running out of time
Now I'm running away to free my mind
My mind
It's so like you, discretion is all you can be
Screaming to see what is in between
I've been to hell and back, the quiet never lasts
It's not like you to take a risk
I'm only seconds away from giving in
And I'm running out of time
Now I'm running away to free my mind
My mind
With only seconds to go
Cause well end this world
With only seconds to go, come drop the kill!
Reject the world that is broken
Don't give in!
The time slips through my fingers
It slips away
Reject the words that are spoken
Don't give in!
The final hour will linger
Too little, too late
Reject the world that is broken
Don't give in!
The time slips through our fingers!
It slips away
Reject the words that are spoken
Don't give in!
The final hour will linger
Too little, too fucking late!
It's too late
It's too late
The time we spent is free
Gone away
Thrown away!
I'm only seconds away from giving in
And I'm running out of time
Now I'm running away to free my mind
My mind
With only seconds to go
Cause well end this world
With only seconds to go, give up the kill!
Reject the world that is broken
Don't give in!
The time slips through our fingers!
It slips away
Reject the words that are spoken
Don't give in!
The final hour will linger,
It slips away
Staring in deservance seeing what I'm fighting for
It's not in you, not like this
I'm only seconds away from giving in
And I'm running out of time
Now I'm running away to free my mind
My mind
It's so like you, discretion is all you can be
Screaming to see what is in between
I've been to hell and back, the quiet never lasts
It's not like you to take a risk
I'm only seconds away from giving in
And I'm running out of time
Now I'm running away to free my mind
My mind
With only seconds to go
Cause well end this world
With only seconds to go, come drop the kill!
Reject the world that is broken
Don't give in!
The time slips through my fingers
It slips away
Reject the words that are spoken
Don't give in!
The final hour will linger
Too little, too late
Reject the world that is broken
Don't give in!
The time slips through our fingers!
It slips away
Reject the words that are spoken
Don't give in!
The final hour will linger
Too little, too fucking late!
It's too late
It's too late
The time we spent is free
Gone away
Thrown away!
I'm only seconds away from giving in
And I'm running out of time
Now I'm running away to free my mind
My mind
With only seconds to go
Cause well end this world
With only seconds to go, give up the kill!
Reject the world that is broken
Don't give in!
The time slips through our fingers!
It slips away
Reject the words that are spoken
Don't give in!
The final hour will linger,
It slips away
Lyrics submitted by fatemostudent
Too Little Too Late Lyrics as written by Brian Michael White Michael Jagmin
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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