"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.
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This air is too thick to breath, so just drive
These eyes are too sick too see, don't leave me behind
Something's swimming in my blood, somethings rotting in my brain
I'm smothered from the flood, I can't recognize you face
I need to leave, so just drive
Burning lights on the street, fight, fighting the gravity
(Fight, fighting the gravity, fight, fighting the gravity)
When I'm beat and defeated, they'll take you away from me
(They'll take you away from me, they'll take you away from me)
I'm getting lost in a dream, yes, this is the last time
(Yes, this is the last time, yes, this is the last time)
I'm always fighting the gravity
Tonight is too much for me to get through
Tomorrow's just a darkened hall to an empty room
When I'm far away from you
Burning lights on the street, fight, fighting the gravity
(Fight, fighting the gravity, fight, fighting the gravity)
When I'm beat and defeated, they'll take you away from me
(They'll take you away from me, they'll take you away from me)
I'm getting lost in a dream, yes, this is the last time
(Yes, this is the last time, yes, this is the last time)
I'm always fighting the gravity
I'm always fighting the gravity
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This air is too thick to breath, so just drive
These eyes are too sick too see, don't leave me behind
Something's swimming in my blood, somethings rotting in my brain
I'm smothered from the flood, I can't recognize you face
I need to leave, so just drive
Burning lights on the street, fight, fighting the gravity
(Fight, fighting the gravity, fight, fighting the gravity)
When I'm beat and defeated, they'll take you away from me
(They'll take you away from me, they'll take you away from me)
I'm getting lost in a dream, yes, this is the last time
(Yes, this is the last time, yes, this is the last time)
I'm always fighting the gravity
Tonight is too much for me to get through
Tomorrow's just a darkened hall to an empty room
When I'm far away from you
Burning lights on the street, fight, fighting the gravity
(Fight, fighting the gravity, fight, fighting the gravity)
When I'm beat and defeated, they'll take you away from me
(They'll take you away from me, they'll take you away from me)
I'm getting lost in a dream, yes, this is the last time
(Yes, this is the last time, yes, this is the last time)
I'm always fighting the gravity
I'm always fighting the gravity
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
This makes no sense, this makes no sense
This makes no sense, this make no
Lyrics submitted by Bskiffington, edited by pixelcreme
Fighting the Gravity Lyrics as written by Thomas Delonge Travis Barker
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Most of what JimboTSoV is right. I directly relate to this song, I am living the meaning of this song right now. The gravity that's spoken of in this song represent the fatal attraction for one of the two persons in the relations. As it makes no sense to fight gravity, it makes no sense for me to get away ad move on from the one I love because she means the world to me and I can't comprehend what's happened for her to have changed so much. She is cold and distant with me and can't see the good she used to see in me. How do you move on from being with someone that at one time adored you and felt exactly the same way as you still feel? It feels impossible like breaking a law of physics. I am every day pulled towards the need to fight for what we had. It is very frustrating. Every night is hard to get through and tomorrow only opens a door to a deep anguishing feeling of solitude. "Dead and lost in a dream" is like dwelling in memories of everything we had it's like it all never happened, surreal. Anyways that's how I feel about this song, it might not be exactly that.