"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 like to eat your grits with butter salt and sugar
You like your coffee instant and black
I always loved the fact but thought that it was so peculiar
How you carried everything you owned on your back seat
Of your 1983 canary yellow Z
You had a unique collection of fast food bag
And all the posted notes of quotes taped to your dashboard
Reminding you life's not so bad
Sad, sadder day
Since I heard you went away
Sad, sadder day
When I can't see your face
What about the day you took me to Skatetown USA
It was raining and there wasn't anywhere we could play
We skated backwards as we held on to each other's hand
Made up choreographer to K.C. and the Sunshine Band
You got tired and said you couldn't sleep last night
You stayed up praying for everybody you knows souls
Then you got misty eyed when you said you weren't afraid to die but you were scared of being alone
Sad, Sadder day
Since I heard you went away
Sad, Sadder day
When I can't see your face
Faster my heart started beating
I got the funniest most awful feeling
You were trying trying to tell me something
I didn't want to know
Sad, Sadder day
Since I heard you went away
Sad, Sadder day
When I can't see your face
You like your coffee instant and black
I always loved the fact but thought that it was so peculiar
How you carried everything you owned on your back seat
Of your 1983 canary yellow Z
You had a unique collection of fast food bag
And all the posted notes of quotes taped to your dashboard
Reminding you life's not so bad
Sad, sadder day
Since I heard you went away
Sad, sadder day
When I can't see your face
What about the day you took me to Skatetown USA
It was raining and there wasn't anywhere we could play
We skated backwards as we held on to each other's hand
Made up choreographer to K.C. and the Sunshine Band
You got tired and said you couldn't sleep last night
You stayed up praying for everybody you knows souls
Then you got misty eyed when you said you weren't afraid to die but you were scared of being alone
Sad, Sadder day
Since I heard you went away
Sad, Sadder day
When I can't see your face
Faster my heart started beating
I got the funniest most awful feeling
You were trying trying to tell me something
I didn't want to know
Sad, Sadder day
Since I heard you went away
Sad, Sadder day
When I can't see your face
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Sadder Day Lyrics as written by John Painter Fleming Mc Williams
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