"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.
Don't get too close to me
I'm not likely to be someone you want
To be around when they're in love
Don't get too comfortable
You're not even the slightest bit of one
I need to open out my heart
Lost track of time and I saw it in my mind
I love you from up above
True by the blind and light of my finders
I love you from up above
Lost track of time and I saw in my mind that no one
Lost track of time and I love you from up above
Don't get too close to me
It's got highly unlikely that I want
To be around for very long
I've got too comfortable and stopped
Trying to find out what I want
I need to open out my heart
Lost track of time and saw it in my mind
I love you from up above
True by the blind and light of my finders
I love you from up above
Lost track of time and saw in my mind that no one
Lost track of time and I love you from up above
From the morning till the court of day
All of my games, they were damned to play
When I'm waiting, when the moment's gone
(I love you from up above)
When I look back and the need is there
And I'm waiting to the word you say
When I'm waiting, but the moment's gone
When I'm waiting
(I love you from up above)
Lost track of time and I saw it in my mind
I love you from up above
True by the blind and light of my finders
I love you from up above
Lost track of time and I saw in my mind
I love you from up above
True by the blind and light of my finders
I love you from up above
Lost track of time and is all in my mind, I know
Lost track of time and I love you from up above
Lost track of time and is all in my mind, I know
Lost track of time and I love you from up above
I'm not likely to be someone you want
To be around when they're in love
Don't get too comfortable
You're not even the slightest bit of one
I need to open out my heart
Lost track of time and I saw it in my mind
I love you from up above
True by the blind and light of my finders
I love you from up above
Lost track of time and I saw in my mind that no one
Lost track of time and I love you from up above
Don't get too close to me
It's got highly unlikely that I want
To be around for very long
I've got too comfortable and stopped
Trying to find out what I want
I need to open out my heart
Lost track of time and saw it in my mind
I love you from up above
True by the blind and light of my finders
I love you from up above
Lost track of time and saw in my mind that no one
Lost track of time and I love you from up above
From the morning till the court of day
All of my games, they were damned to play
When I'm waiting, when the moment's gone
(I love you from up above)
When I look back and the need is there
And I'm waiting to the word you say
When I'm waiting, but the moment's gone
When I'm waiting
(I love you from up above)
Lost track of time and I saw it in my mind
I love you from up above
True by the blind and light of my finders
I love you from up above
Lost track of time and I saw in my mind
I love you from up above
True by the blind and light of my finders
I love you from up above
Lost track of time and is all in my mind, I know
Lost track of time and I love you from up above
Lost track of time and is all in my mind, I know
Lost track of time and I love you from up above
Lyrics submitted by g0ld3n, edited by ethereal21, DumbWithLove
From Above Lyrics as written by Rachel Anne Morris
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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