"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.
Two tickets to the rabbit hole, please
I gave them half my earnings and all they gave me was this suite
Shes fueling up whilst talking down to me
God you must be the biggest caner this whole world has ever seen
Take what you want from me, Isabel
Isabel, you make it feel as though I've won and the dullest parts may never come
Isabel, I'm much better Isabel
When you're ripping my life apart
I think it's you that's the true rock star around here
It must be the oxygenated air
That keeps my confidence rising and keeps my mind without a care
And as nights in white satin hits its peak
You grab me by the collar and whisper "What's in store for me?"
Do what you will to me, Isabel
Isabel, you make it feel as though I've won and the dullest parts may never come
Isabel, I'm much better Isabel
When you're ripping my life apart
I think it's you that's the true rock star around here
So tell me sweetheart, did they teach you all of this in a school?
In a school, around here?
Because I'm out my depth now, you can't leave me all alone in this bed
Covered in your sweat and my fear
I could do with keeping you near
I could do with keeping you, Isabel
Isabel, you make it feel as though I've won and the dullest parts may never come
Isabel, I'm much better Isabel
When you're ripping my life apart
I think it's you that's the true rock star around here
Around here
Around here
Around here
I gave them half my earnings and all they gave me was this suite
Shes fueling up whilst talking down to me
God you must be the biggest caner this whole world has ever seen
Take what you want from me, Isabel
Isabel, you make it feel as though I've won and the dullest parts may never come
Isabel, I'm much better Isabel
When you're ripping my life apart
I think it's you that's the true rock star around here
It must be the oxygenated air
That keeps my confidence rising and keeps my mind without a care
And as nights in white satin hits its peak
You grab me by the collar and whisper "What's in store for me?"
Do what you will to me, Isabel
Isabel, you make it feel as though I've won and the dullest parts may never come
Isabel, I'm much better Isabel
When you're ripping my life apart
I think it's you that's the true rock star around here
So tell me sweetheart, did they teach you all of this in a school?
In a school, around here?
Because I'm out my depth now, you can't leave me all alone in this bed
Covered in your sweat and my fear
I could do with keeping you near
I could do with keeping you, Isabel
Isabel, you make it feel as though I've won and the dullest parts may never come
Isabel, I'm much better Isabel
When you're ripping my life apart
I think it's you that's the true rock star around here
Around here
Around here
Around here
Lyrics submitted by QuantumEcho
Isabel Lyrics as written by Matthew Edward Murphy Daniel Joseph Haggis
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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