"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.
I thought id hear your voice (hello, hello, hello)
But instead the operator says your number?s changed
My apologies (my apologies)
Please forgive me please
For I've been selfish and I'm to blame
If I could reverse the years (If I could reverse the years)
To take back all the tears
I'd rewrite the screenplay
But life don't work that way (what you mean it don?t work that way?)
So lonely here I lay
Wishing you was still my lady
[Chorus]
When it's not easy to walk away (try, try, try, try again)
When you don't really mean what you say (try, try, try, try again)
When you feel incomplete
Don't you go losing sleep
I think you should try again
Can we try again?
Try again
The perfume you used to wear (the sweet perfume you used to wear)
Sometimes I smell it in the air and do a double take
And sometimes I play your song (sometimes I play your song)
Just to dance along
Just to cut the pain
Please forget me not (don't forget, don't forget, don't forget, don't forget me)
If ever you should tie the knot
Or just find somebody new
I hope this rights the wrongs that I've done
See I composed this song
Cause its hell without you
[Chorus]
See winter's too cold without you
Summer too lonely without you
And I can't stop thinking about you
Can we try again?
Oh fall that's when we met
Spring it was times I can't forget
My Cinderella, my Juliet
Can we try again?
[Chorus]
I called to hear your today
The operator said instead
Your numbers changed
Not willing without you baby
Can we try again...
But instead the operator says your number?s changed
My apologies (my apologies)
Please forgive me please
For I've been selfish and I'm to blame
If I could reverse the years (If I could reverse the years)
To take back all the tears
I'd rewrite the screenplay
But life don't work that way (what you mean it don?t work that way?)
So lonely here I lay
Wishing you was still my lady
[Chorus]
When it's not easy to walk away (try, try, try, try again)
When you don't really mean what you say (try, try, try, try again)
When you feel incomplete
Don't you go losing sleep
I think you should try again
Can we try again?
Try again
The perfume you used to wear (the sweet perfume you used to wear)
Sometimes I smell it in the air and do a double take
And sometimes I play your song (sometimes I play your song)
Just to dance along
Just to cut the pain
Please forget me not (don't forget, don't forget, don't forget, don't forget me)
If ever you should tie the knot
Or just find somebody new
I hope this rights the wrongs that I've done
See I composed this song
Cause its hell without you
[Chorus]
See winter's too cold without you
Summer too lonely without you
And I can't stop thinking about you
Can we try again?
Oh fall that's when we met
Spring it was times I can't forget
My Cinderella, my Juliet
Can we try again?
[Chorus]
I called to hear your today
The operator said instead
Your numbers changed
Not willing without you baby
Can we try again...
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Try Again Lyrics as written by Raheem De Vaughn Mark Christopher Batson
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