"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 used to live so close
To me I could die
Call me up and bring me back to life
Friends far but never gone
I forgot to say that it's been too long
Late nights and too much time
On my hands I lie
Awake with your song in my head
Give up but never lose out
Cause I've got you
By my side
This is how it should be
This is how it should be
This is how it should
Be, this is how
Every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
Yeah every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
Eyes shut I lay down still
Next to the speaker
I think about the times we've been together
Friend far but never gone
I forgot to say that it's been too long
This is how it should be
This is how it should be
This is how it should
Be, this is how
Every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
Yeah every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
The one you wrote
When you were away
My favourite song
Reminds me of
You, oh oh oh...
This is how it should be
This is how it should be
This is how it should
Be, this is how
Every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
Every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
The one you wrote
My favourite song
Reminds me of you
To me I could die
Call me up and bring me back to life
Friends far but never gone
I forgot to say that it's been too long
Late nights and too much time
On my hands I lie
Awake with your song in my head
Give up but never lose out
Cause I've got you
By my side
This is how it should be
This is how it should be
This is how it should
Be, this is how
Every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
Yeah every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
Eyes shut I lay down still
Next to the speaker
I think about the times we've been together
Friend far but never gone
I forgot to say that it's been too long
This is how it should be
This is how it should be
This is how it should
Be, this is how
Every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
Yeah every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
The one you wrote
When you were away
My favourite song
Reminds me of
You, oh oh oh...
This is how it should be
This is how it should be
This is how it should
Be, this is how
Every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
Every time every time
I feel you're gone
I get your song in my head
It's my favourite one
The one you wrote
My favourite song
Reminds me of you
Lyrics submitted by dilEMMA15
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