"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.
I wrote this song when I turned 15
You were the only girl I'd ever seen
I wrote this song
Oh I wrote it for you
But then you moved away, and I moved away too, yeah
Oh
Well I dreamed a lot when I was just a kid
I could see through walls
That's just the way that I did
But then I lost my way in the city of lights
Yeah, I got pulled in
Oh, I gave up a fight
And if I'm older now, well it's all just an act
And after all of these years I wouldn't take a thing back
Cause mystery and wonder
If we only had each other
Mystery and wonder
Is there lightning without thunder?
Oh
Well I wrote this song when I was 17
What makes us write our lives
Man, you know what I mean
And if I'm older now, well it's all just an act
And after all of these years I wouldn't take a thing back
Cause mystery and wonder
If we only had each other
Mystery and wonder
Is there lightning without thunder?
Oh
Well I wrote this song when I was 29
It was more than it seemed, it was ahead of its time
And if I'm older now, well it's all just an act
And after all of these years I wouldn't take a thing back
Naw mystery and wonder
If we only had each other
Mystery and wonder
Is there lightning without thunder?
Mystery and wonder
If we only had each other
Mystery and wonder
Is there lightning without thunder?
Oh
You were the only girl I'd ever seen
I wrote this song
Oh I wrote it for you
But then you moved away, and I moved away too, yeah
Oh
Well I dreamed a lot when I was just a kid
I could see through walls
That's just the way that I did
But then I lost my way in the city of lights
Yeah, I got pulled in
Oh, I gave up a fight
And if I'm older now, well it's all just an act
And after all of these years I wouldn't take a thing back
Cause mystery and wonder
If we only had each other
Mystery and wonder
Is there lightning without thunder?
Oh
Well I wrote this song when I was 17
What makes us write our lives
Man, you know what I mean
And if I'm older now, well it's all just an act
And after all of these years I wouldn't take a thing back
Cause mystery and wonder
If we only had each other
Mystery and wonder
Is there lightning without thunder?
Oh
Well I wrote this song when I was 29
It was more than it seemed, it was ahead of its time
And if I'm older now, well it's all just an act
And after all of these years I wouldn't take a thing back
Naw mystery and wonder
If we only had each other
Mystery and wonder
Is there lightning without thunder?
Mystery and wonder
If we only had each other
Mystery and wonder
Is there lightning without thunder?
Oh
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Mystery and Wonder Lyrics as written by Eric Earley
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