"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.
Can't hear you now
You've lost your touch
You're not the same person in front of me
So cover up your skin and bones
What are you trying so hard not to be
Everything that you wrote, I already read
You plagiarized
Everything that you said was all rehearsed
I know your lines
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
What's left to say
Time's running out
You've been discovered
It's your swan song
So clear the air
And come outside
Have you been faking sick for so long
And all of the pills you take won't fix a single thing
And you didn't think what goes around comes rolling back to me
Back to me
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
You've been faking sick for so long
I can't hear you now
You've lost your touch
Can't hear you now
You've lost your touch
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
You've lost your touch
You're not the same person in front of me
So cover up your skin and bones
What are you trying so hard not to be
Everything that you wrote, I already read
You plagiarized
Everything that you said was all rehearsed
I know your lines
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
What's left to say
Time's running out
You've been discovered
It's your swan song
So clear the air
And come outside
Have you been faking sick for so long
And all of the pills you take won't fix a single thing
And you didn't think what goes around comes rolling back to me
Back to me
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
You've been faking sick for so long
I can't hear you now
You've lost your touch
Can't hear you now
You've lost your touch
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
The damage is done
I saw for myself
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear you were someone else
Lyrics submitted by eltroyo11
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