"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 can live your life in a different world
Spend your time lookin' for a different girl
Carry on like there ain't no tomorrow
You can take your mind to a different plane
Push it to the edge and forget your name
Lose it all and you will beg, steal or borrow
But I don't want to live that way
Be another helpless stray
I'm lookin' for the truth today
And it's somethin' I've been prayin' for
Chorus:
I wanna be a sold out believer
I wanna follow my Lord completely
I don't wanna waste another day
I gotta love Him all the way
I want to be a sold out believer
You can put your faith in the moon and stars
Say there's really nothin' to the very scars
That belong to the hands of the Father
You can say the man wasn't what he seemed
Callin' Him a fool with a crazy dream
And in the end He was just another martyr
But let me tell you how I feel
I believe His love can heal
Yeah I know what He did was real
And it's somethin' I've been livin' for
Repeat chorus
I gotta give my all
Don't wanna go half way
I gotta show my love
Don't have to be afraid
Gotta lay it on the line
Workin' overtime believer
But let me tell you how I feel
I believe His love can heal
Yeah I know what He did was real
And it's somethin' I've been dyin' for.
Repeat chorus
Spend your time lookin' for a different girl
Carry on like there ain't no tomorrow
You can take your mind to a different plane
Push it to the edge and forget your name
Lose it all and you will beg, steal or borrow
But I don't want to live that way
Be another helpless stray
I'm lookin' for the truth today
And it's somethin' I've been prayin' for
Chorus:
I wanna be a sold out believer
I wanna follow my Lord completely
I don't wanna waste another day
I gotta love Him all the way
I want to be a sold out believer
You can put your faith in the moon and stars
Say there's really nothin' to the very scars
That belong to the hands of the Father
You can say the man wasn't what he seemed
Callin' Him a fool with a crazy dream
And in the end He was just another martyr
But let me tell you how I feel
I believe His love can heal
Yeah I know what He did was real
And it's somethin' I've been livin' for
Repeat chorus
I gotta give my all
Don't wanna go half way
I gotta show my love
Don't have to be afraid
Gotta lay it on the line
Workin' overtime believer
But let me tell you how I feel
I believe His love can heal
Yeah I know what He did was real
And it's somethin' I've been dyin' for.
Repeat chorus
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Sold out Believer Lyrics as written by Mark Heimermann Walter C. Crossnoe
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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