"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.
Listen up
This is the next stage, we turn the page
We're gonna wreck a place when we take the stage
Roll up your sleeves, get down with me
It's going off in the pit like you wouldn't believe
Let's go all out to the promised land
Ingest contraband and begin to slam
This is life man, all we do is jam
We'll make you feel like a child again and again
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
This is a dream from the rest of our team no one can intervene
Until the end of our days there is no in between
Picking up the pace, the chase, moving through outer space
Driven out by the fire that drives the human race
Because I'm a blank slate, love it or hate, this is our real estate
True fate, love it or hate, you're on our real estate
Talking about the power, devoured each second, every hour
Talking about the break, you make, perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
All the wasted days and lonely haze
Went on and on and on and on and on
Left without a trace can't be replaced
It's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone
All the wasted days and lonely haze
Went on and on and on and on and on
Left without a trace can't be replaced
It's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone
It was a perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
Listen up
This is the next stage, we turn the page
We're gonna wreck a place when we take the stage
Roll up your sleeves, get down with me
It's going off in the pit like you wouldn't believe
Let's go all out to the promised land
Ingest contraband and begin to slam
This is life man, all we do is jam
We'll make you feel like a child again and again
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
This is a dream from the rest of our team no one can intervene
Until the end of our days there is no in between
Picking up the pace, the chase, moving through outer space
Driven out by the fire that drives the human race
Because I'm a blank slate, love it or hate, this is our real estate
True fate, love it or hate, you're on our real estate
Talking about the power, devoured each second, every hour
Talking about the break, you make, perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
All the wasted days and lonely haze
Went on and on and on and on and on
Left without a trace can't be replaced
It's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone
All the wasted days and lonely haze
Went on and on and on and on and on
Left without a trace can't be replaced
It's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone it's gone
It was a perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
Oh, see it in our eyes
Hold it in our hands
All those days that you wasted away
There was no one to blame
It's a perfect mistake
Listen up
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Perfect Mistake Lyrics as written by Doug Martinez Aaron Wills
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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