"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.
This is just another stance
A way for you to make your minds up
While we stand, while we stand
While we stand, while we stand
Distance helps us find the path
Before we make you make your minds up
Take a chance, take a chance
Take a chance, take a chance
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
This is just another step
To help define where your mind's at
It's all the same, all the same
It's all the same, all the same
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
You are the haunted, the haunted
You are the haunted
You are the haunted, the haunted
You are the haunted
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
A way for you to make your minds up
While we stand, while we stand
While we stand, while we stand
Distance helps us find the path
Before we make you make your minds up
Take a chance, take a chance
Take a chance, take a chance
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
This is just another step
To help define where your mind's at
It's all the same, all the same
It's all the same, all the same
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
You are the haunted, the haunted
You are the haunted
You are the haunted, the haunted
You are the haunted
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long on the wrong side
We all stand too long, too long
Lyrics submitted by 60_miles_an_hour
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