"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.
It's tough to stay objective, baby
With your tongue abseiling down my neck
It's a bulletproof offer I can't accept
It's tough to maintain focus, baby
Now all my elephants are in the room
We crave the fiction when we need the truth
You need to find a different boy's heart to chew
Chew
And all these emoticons and words
Try to make it better but they only make it worse
It's tough to feign indifference, baby
Now I'm spending all the money I have
Trying to impress you's kinda driving me mad
And I don't blame the pressure or the vultures in the sky
I blame what happens every time we're under neon lights
We crave the tension in a room with a view
You need to find a different boy's heart to chew
Chew
And all these emoticons and words
Try to make it better but they only make it worse
And all these emoticons and words
Fail to make it better, their attempts just make it worse
And it's everything I want
And nothing I can keep
Behind these metaphors
I want you literally
We crave the fiction when we need the truth
You need to find a different boy's heart to chew
Chew
And all these emoticons and words
Try to make it better but they only make it worse
But I like it here so much I might stay
The edge of nowhere's such a beautiful place
The edge of nowhere's such a beautiful place
With your tongue abseiling down my neck
It's a bulletproof offer I can't accept
It's tough to maintain focus, baby
Now all my elephants are in the room
We crave the fiction when we need the truth
You need to find a different boy's heart to chew
Chew
And all these emoticons and words
Try to make it better but they only make it worse
It's tough to feign indifference, baby
Now I'm spending all the money I have
Trying to impress you's kinda driving me mad
And I don't blame the pressure or the vultures in the sky
I blame what happens every time we're under neon lights
We crave the tension in a room with a view
You need to find a different boy's heart to chew
Chew
And all these emoticons and words
Try to make it better but they only make it worse
And all these emoticons and words
Fail to make it better, their attempts just make it worse
And it's everything I want
And nothing I can keep
Behind these metaphors
I want you literally
We crave the fiction when we need the truth
You need to find a different boy's heart to chew
Chew
And all these emoticons and words
Try to make it better but they only make it worse
But I like it here so much I might stay
The edge of nowhere's such a beautiful place
The edge of nowhere's such a beautiful place
Lyrics submitted by ProvidenceXz
Emoticons Lyrics as written by Matthew Edward Murphy Daniel Joseph Haggis
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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