"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.
Gonna leave the illusion when your head is clear
Gonna straighten out the arrows and get out of here
Take that death wish kiss
Shake it upside-down
Take your little heart and turn it back around
Gonna leave the illusion when your head is clear
Gonna straighten out the arrows and get out of here
Take that death wish kiss
Shake it upside-down
Take your little heart and turn it back
Gone over black
The dark keeps spinning
Feel the kickback
The beginning is over
And the the pitch black
Shine on the little cracks
Let it go
You raised a little hell
And learned how to fight,
But they'll leave you alone
With the night in your eyes
You've got a little spell
Memorize the lines
Focus it around
The shooting star in the sky
There are some things you will never know
Some dreams
They'll be locked away 'till daylight goes out
Gonna leave the illusion when your head is clear
Gonna straighten out the arrows and get out of here
Take that death wish kiss
Shake it upside-down
Take your little heart and turn it back around
Gonna leave the illusion when your head is clear
Gonna straighten out the arrows and get out of here
Take that death wish kiss
Shake it upside-down
Take your little heart
Fields and trees match the damage and frills,
But they can't mark or tell all the sequins and pills
You've got a little spell
And learned how to fight
But they'll leave you alone
With the night in your eyes
Queen or bee whore
Drama stored on wheels
The trauma in store
Breaths all hot on your heels
You've got a little spell
Memorize the lines
Focus it around the shooting star in the sky
There are some things you will never know
some dreams
They'll be locked away 'till daylight goes out
There are some things you will never know
Some dreams
They'll be locked away 'till daylight goes out
Gonna straighten out the arrows and get out of here
Take that death wish kiss
Shake it upside-down
Take your little heart and turn it back around
Gonna leave the illusion when your head is clear
Gonna straighten out the arrows and get out of here
Take that death wish kiss
Shake it upside-down
Take your little heart and turn it back
Gone over black
The dark keeps spinning
Feel the kickback
The beginning is over
And the the pitch black
Shine on the little cracks
Let it go
You raised a little hell
And learned how to fight,
But they'll leave you alone
With the night in your eyes
You've got a little spell
Memorize the lines
Focus it around
The shooting star in the sky
There are some things you will never know
Some dreams
They'll be locked away 'till daylight goes out
Gonna leave the illusion when your head is clear
Gonna straighten out the arrows and get out of here
Take that death wish kiss
Shake it upside-down
Take your little heart and turn it back around
Gonna leave the illusion when your head is clear
Gonna straighten out the arrows and get out of here
Take that death wish kiss
Shake it upside-down
Take your little heart
Fields and trees match the damage and frills,
But they can't mark or tell all the sequins and pills
You've got a little spell
And learned how to fight
But they'll leave you alone
With the night in your eyes
Queen or bee whore
Drama stored on wheels
The trauma in store
Breaths all hot on your heels
You've got a little spell
Memorize the lines
Focus it around the shooting star in the sky
There are some things you will never know
some dreams
They'll be locked away 'till daylight goes out
There are some things you will never know
Some dreams
They'll be locked away 'till daylight goes out
Lyrics submitted by PeppermintLove
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