"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.
All our secrets they are tailored trouble
Draped loose now around your hips
Your spotless instincts are valid
We co-exist
Got 26 days to work with (got 26 days)
We've got 26 days to work with (it moves, it moves, it moves)
We'll see what all gets done
I'm an addict for dramatics
I confuse the two for love
You can't tell me that you don't beg
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Got 26 days to work with (got 26 days)
Then back on that island
That you swear by
Still barely can afford
It's still a question of
"How long will this hold?"
"Well is it any different now that we are" (I said we are patient)
"Oh, don't you go there, not here, not now" (it moves, it moves, it moves)
Not here, not now
I'm an addict for dramatics
I confuse the two for love
You can't tell me that you don't beg
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Yeah, we're all choir boys at best
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Liar (Liar)
Liar (Liar)
It takes one to know one
Draped loose now around your hips
Your spotless instincts are valid
We co-exist
Got 26 days to work with (got 26 days)
We've got 26 days to work with (it moves, it moves, it moves)
We'll see what all gets done
I'm an addict for dramatics
I confuse the two for love
You can't tell me that you don't beg
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Got 26 days to work with (got 26 days)
Then back on that island
That you swear by
Still barely can afford
It's still a question of
"How long will this hold?"
"Well is it any different now that we are" (I said we are patient)
"Oh, don't you go there, not here, not now" (it moves, it moves, it moves)
Not here, not now
I'm an addict for dramatics
I confuse the two for love
You can't tell me that you don't beg
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Yeah, we're all choir boys at best
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Liar (Liar)
If we're keeping score
Then we're all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Liar (Liar)
Liar (Liar)
It takes one to know one
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Liar (It Takes One to Know One) Lyrics as written by Edward Reyes Adam Burbank Lazzara
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Wow you guys are looking to deep into it. Its about liars plain and simple. By choir boys, he means pure and innocent people.