"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.
Now, who'd of thought, we'd end up this way
Talkin' to each other, like the enemy
There's really only three words, I should say
But even if I did, would you hear them any way
We should have read the signs
We could have made more time
Why was I so blind
To what was out in front of me
I never thought I'd be the last to know
I never thought you'd be the first to go
Forever never lasts too long enough for us to have a chance to hold
So take me by the hand I'm on my knees
Together we will stand now I believe
Somewhere in that plan there's gotta be
A second chance for you and me
There was a time when we made history
But the dream we tried to keep became the casualty
We traded paradise for misery
What was once a house of love, is now a battlefield
We should have read the signs
We could have made more time
Why was I so blind
To what was out in front of me
I never thought I'd be the last to know
I never thought you'd be the first to go
Forever never lasts too long enough for us to have a chance to hold
So take me by the hand I'm on my knees
Together we will stand now I believe
Somewhere in that plan there's gotta be
A second chance for you and me
It's not about what we want
It's all about holdin' on
I never thought I'd be the first to cry
This doesn't have to be our last goodbye
Forever's gonna wait just long enough for us
To fight for one more try
So take me by the hand I'm on my knees
Together we will stand now I believe
Somewhere in that plan there had to be
A second chance for you and me
A second chance for you and me
A second chance for you and me
Somewhere in that plan there had to be
A second chance for you and me
Talkin' to each other, like the enemy
There's really only three words, I should say
But even if I did, would you hear them any way
We should have read the signs
We could have made more time
Why was I so blind
To what was out in front of me
I never thought I'd be the last to know
I never thought you'd be the first to go
Forever never lasts too long enough for us to have a chance to hold
So take me by the hand I'm on my knees
Together we will stand now I believe
Somewhere in that plan there's gotta be
A second chance for you and me
There was a time when we made history
But the dream we tried to keep became the casualty
We traded paradise for misery
What was once a house of love, is now a battlefield
We should have read the signs
We could have made more time
Why was I so blind
To what was out in front of me
I never thought I'd be the last to know
I never thought you'd be the first to go
Forever never lasts too long enough for us to have a chance to hold
So take me by the hand I'm on my knees
Together we will stand now I believe
Somewhere in that plan there's gotta be
A second chance for you and me
It's not about what we want
It's all about holdin' on
I never thought I'd be the first to cry
This doesn't have to be our last goodbye
Forever's gonna wait just long enough for us
To fight for one more try
So take me by the hand I'm on my knees
Together we will stand now I believe
Somewhere in that plan there had to be
A second chance for you and me
A second chance for you and me
A second chance for you and me
Somewhere in that plan there had to be
A second chance for you and me
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Second Chance Lyrics as written by George Canyon Chad Robert Kroeger
Lyrics © Anthem Entertainment, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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