"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.
This is a message
Pay attention
I got something to say
Pleasant information
This is me walking
That you're waving
This might get away
My taste of freedom
Goodbye
Goodbye
This is a calling
Not a conversation
No manipulation
If love is a season
You are my winter
You are just the ice
Layin' on my finger
This is a message
Pay attention
Nobody's gonna love me the wrong way again
This is a calling
Not a conversation
This is my overdue goodbye
Yeah, overdue goodbye
Oh, in my tomorrow
All the fields are golden
And all the papers say
That the spell's been broken
To my future lover
Fate will find you
Cause you have the power
Of truth behind you, yeah
Goodbye
Oh, yeah
Goodbye
Said goodbye, baby
This is a message
Pay attention
Nobody's gonna love me the wrong way again
This is a calling
Not a conversation
This is my overdue goodbye
Yeah yeah
Goodbye
I said goodbye
Goodbye
I said goodbye baby
This is a message
Pay attention
Nobody's gonna love me the wrong way again
Oh yeah
This is a calling
Not a conversation
This is my overdue goodbye
(this is a message) oh
(pay attention) said pay attention
(nobody's gonna love me the wrong way again)
Nobody, nobody, no
(this is a calling) a calling
(not a conversation)
This is my overdue goodbye
Hey ya
Goodbye
Oh oh
Goodbye
Come on and sing with me
One more time, one more time
Goodbye
Oh
Goodbye
Yeah yeah
Goodbye
Mm
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Yeah he
Goodbye
Pay attention
I got something to say
Pleasant information
This is me walking
That you're waving
This might get away
My taste of freedom
Goodbye
Goodbye
This is a calling
Not a conversation
No manipulation
If love is a season
You are my winter
You are just the ice
Layin' on my finger
This is a message
Pay attention
Nobody's gonna love me the wrong way again
This is a calling
Not a conversation
This is my overdue goodbye
Yeah, overdue goodbye
Oh, in my tomorrow
All the fields are golden
And all the papers say
That the spell's been broken
To my future lover
Fate will find you
Cause you have the power
Of truth behind you, yeah
Goodbye
Oh, yeah
Goodbye
Said goodbye, baby
This is a message
Pay attention
Nobody's gonna love me the wrong way again
This is a calling
Not a conversation
This is my overdue goodbye
Yeah yeah
Goodbye
I said goodbye
Goodbye
I said goodbye baby
This is a message
Pay attention
Nobody's gonna love me the wrong way again
Oh yeah
This is a calling
Not a conversation
This is my overdue goodbye
(this is a message) oh
(pay attention) said pay attention
(nobody's gonna love me the wrong way again)
Nobody, nobody, no
(this is a calling) a calling
(not a conversation)
This is my overdue goodbye
Hey ya
Goodbye
Oh oh
Goodbye
Come on and sing with me
One more time, one more time
Goodbye
Oh
Goodbye
Yeah yeah
Goodbye
Mm
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Yeah he
Goodbye
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Overdue Goodbye Lyrics as written by Billy Mann Anastacia L. Newkirk
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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