"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 can see being with you
You've got a body I imagine to be like
What I imagine you've been told
I can see being with you
Your clothes are great and you wear them loose
And you know
When to hang on and when to let go
You had a house and you took me there
I had to notice that the walls were bare and white
Like the ashes of yesterday's fire
The bed looked like a butcher's block, and
You liked it better when I was on top
And I thought about nothing at all
You seem alright
A little close to the night
But you seem alright
It's inappropriate
But at least the walls are white
A piece of fool's gold next to an empty vase
I'm too old for you anyway
And I know you'll disagree
Because you know that you're pretty when you lie
Before I go
I think I should tell you that
All the stars are dying and
Most of them are already through
We're just getting off on yesterday's fire
From under a rock, I'm on my way to grace
I have stopped in a thousand houses
On my way
But I never will forget
Oh no, I never will forget about
The way we played The Fall
And broke your plates against the wall
As the sun rose
Then we fell asleep in the glass
And then I had to go
You've got a body I imagine to be like
What I imagine you've been told
I can see being with you
Your clothes are great and you wear them loose
And you know
When to hang on and when to let go
You had a house and you took me there
I had to notice that the walls were bare and white
Like the ashes of yesterday's fire
The bed looked like a butcher's block, and
You liked it better when I was on top
And I thought about nothing at all
You seem alright
A little close to the night
But you seem alright
It's inappropriate
But at least the walls are white
A piece of fool's gold next to an empty vase
I'm too old for you anyway
And I know you'll disagree
Because you know that you're pretty when you lie
Before I go
I think I should tell you that
All the stars are dying and
Most of them are already through
We're just getting off on yesterday's fire
From under a rock, I'm on my way to grace
I have stopped in a thousand houses
On my way
But I never will forget
Oh no, I never will forget about
The way we played The Fall
And broke your plates against the wall
As the sun rose
Then we fell asleep in the glass
And then I had to go
Lyrics submitted by PartTheRedSea
Yesterday's Fire Lyrics as written by Matti Ahopelto Markus Joensuu
Lyrics © Royalty Network
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