"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.
Do you remember
That last week in May
Or would you rather
Think that happiness
Only lasts for a day
Either you are sure
You are perfectly free
Or you remember me
Do you remember
Those tears in the night
Or if you recall
Sometimes we stand silent
And stare out of spite
Either you forgotten
Those songs by the sea
Or you remember me
And the rain and the snow
Won't extinguish the glow
Of the past that will last til I let go
Do you remember
Those lies that we told
And the hopes
That we saw in the future
That now has grown old
Either you've destroyed
Every sweet memory
Or you remember me
And the rain and the snow
Won't extinguish the glow
Of the past that will last til I let go
Will you forget
Long before you turn grey
All those times when I bent my needs to you
And implored you to stay
Either you must share
In all my misery
Or you remember me
Remember me
Remember me
That last week in May
Or would you rather
Think that happiness
Only lasts for a day
Either you are sure
You are perfectly free
Or you remember me
Do you remember
Those tears in the night
Or if you recall
Sometimes we stand silent
And stare out of spite
Either you forgotten
Those songs by the sea
Or you remember me
And the rain and the snow
Won't extinguish the glow
Of the past that will last til I let go
Do you remember
Those lies that we told
And the hopes
That we saw in the future
That now has grown old
Either you've destroyed
Every sweet memory
Or you remember me
And the rain and the snow
Won't extinguish the glow
Of the past that will last til I let go
Will you forget
Long before you turn grey
All those times when I bent my needs to you
And implored you to stay
Either you must share
In all my misery
Or you remember me
Remember me
Remember me
Lyrics submitted by warpseven
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