"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.
If you croak, I hope you know I'm gonna toss you in the trash
You can't really blame us; we're only doing what you asked
If you have yourself a son, I'm gonna tell your baby boy
That Father Time's chock full of lies, so don't jump in just yet
Doubting Thomas deserves much more than we can give
If we win the lottery, let's buy an island just for him
So when that hurricane tries beating down the door
We can make him bat its eye 'til it can't see what's a...
Until we can't see what's ahead
Until we can't see what's ahead
You can sew me in stitches
Curse at the cautious
While it lasts
Cause soon we'll all forget
If we croak, I hope you know it's gonna be in single files
Hunting for models that were never worth the while
Each one of us caught heat for throwing Jack Frost in July
Staring at the sun 'til our eyes were done, we could not see what's a...
Until we can't see what's ahead
You can sew me in stitches
Curse at the cautious
While it lasts
Cause soon we'll all forget
You can't really blame us; we're only doing what you asked
If you have yourself a son, I'm gonna tell your baby boy
That Father Time's chock full of lies, so don't jump in just yet
Doubting Thomas deserves much more than we can give
If we win the lottery, let's buy an island just for him
So when that hurricane tries beating down the door
We can make him bat its eye 'til it can't see what's a...
Until we can't see what's ahead
Until we can't see what's ahead
You can sew me in stitches
Curse at the cautious
While it lasts
Cause soon we'll all forget
If we croak, I hope you know it's gonna be in single files
Hunting for models that were never worth the while
Each one of us caught heat for throwing Jack Frost in July
Staring at the sun 'til our eyes were done, we could not see what's a...
Until we can't see what's ahead
You can sew me in stitches
Curse at the cautious
While it lasts
Cause soon we'll all forget
Lyrics submitted by christsizeshoes
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Just a guess, but this song might be about atheistic death
'Until we can't see what's ahead' --Old age, dying
'You can sew me in stitches Curse at the cautious While it lasts' --You can do whatever the hell you want while your life lasts
"Cause soon we'll all forget" --Nothing after death, nonexistence. No memories, just nothing.
wow...that's, in a nutshell, exactly how i feel about this song. strange...that's never happened before.<br /> <br /> I think you're absolutely right. the song is about the futility of life. it's actually a very depressing song with pretty much no silver-lining set to a very bouncy "la-la-la" rythm. It's very sarcastic fair to midland form; but in a different context...this time the lyrics themselves aren't tongue-in-cheek, they are very straight forward, but rather the depressing lyrics set to the upbeat music is what makes it so sardonic.<br /> <br /> of course there are the quintessential ftm turns of phrases. "doubting thomas deserves much more than we can give, if we win the lottery lets buy an island just for him." that line in itself is purposefully contradictory; but the essence of the song is that no matter what you do, no matter the mark you make in your lifetime, no matter how much people remember you, you will eventually be forgotten; therefore, aside from a religious afterlife standpoint (like you already said, the song is written in the context of an "atheistic death"), individual life is not building towards anything and doesn't really matter...legacies are always forgotten, and in time people always forget. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />