"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.
(Ok, lets roll it boys)
Oooohh Ahhh.
Christine its too late for a spin.
You're trapped inside your mind like a bottled up Jinn.
I saw your headlights shining on my front porch
I stood behind the door just a shadow.
And you're calling, you're calling but nobody's home now
we're walking in shadows.
Christine, I'm walking through these walls.
just to get to you and feel your shattered soul.
I see you at a table with some cards.
speaking in your tongues so paranoid.
And I'm breaking, I'm breaking up inside
I'm walking with ghosts now.
I'm shaking, I'm shaking just like a lullaby
Cause I'm walking with ghosts now.
(I said I'm here)
I never said the words I meant or anything like them (for you no matter what)
Our time was cut and you were left without a life line.(The cost but I lied)
You set adrift away from me, and I can see your horizons. (yeah, I lied)
It's dead light, and overcast, and not aligning.
As the life I once had flashed before my eyes
in my car with you on a rainy night.
Christine at my side and your hands held high
screaming out my name as we collide.
And you take me, you take me in your arms now,
'Cause we're walking with ghosts now.
And you're shaking, you're shaking just like a lullaby
Cause we're walking with ghosts now.
(Where you gonna go?)
Christine they're standing on your grave (Couldn't let it, couldn't let it go)
trying to understand what they couldn't save.
It's some Shakespearean good old tragedy (They couldn't let it, they couldn't let it go.)
and we're walking with ghosts now...
Oooohh Ahhh.
Christine its too late for a spin.
You're trapped inside your mind like a bottled up Jinn.
I saw your headlights shining on my front porch
I stood behind the door just a shadow.
And you're calling, you're calling but nobody's home now
we're walking in shadows.
Christine, I'm walking through these walls.
just to get to you and feel your shattered soul.
I see you at a table with some cards.
speaking in your tongues so paranoid.
And I'm breaking, I'm breaking up inside
I'm walking with ghosts now.
I'm shaking, I'm shaking just like a lullaby
Cause I'm walking with ghosts now.
(I said I'm here)
I never said the words I meant or anything like them (for you no matter what)
Our time was cut and you were left without a life line.(The cost but I lied)
You set adrift away from me, and I can see your horizons. (yeah, I lied)
It's dead light, and overcast, and not aligning.
As the life I once had flashed before my eyes
in my car with you on a rainy night.
Christine at my side and your hands held high
screaming out my name as we collide.
And you take me, you take me in your arms now,
'Cause we're walking with ghosts now.
And you're shaking, you're shaking just like a lullaby
Cause we're walking with ghosts now.
(Where you gonna go?)
Christine they're standing on your grave (Couldn't let it, couldn't let it go)
trying to understand what they couldn't save.
It's some Shakespearean good old tragedy (They couldn't let it, they couldn't let it go.)
and we're walking with ghosts now...
Lyrics submitted by demolitionlover4, edited by McThuggin2011
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