"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.
The feeling of falling
is still so familiar
The pain in my stomach
is better, but baby
Bright colours
have faded too early this year
And strangers look stranger 'round here
The flowers you've left here
have died in the heat
I see parts of your face now,
and girls in the street
I hope you like your new neighbors
Don't sleep with every new stranger
It's lonely, but only at night
And most of the time I'm breathing fine
Most of the time I'm breathing fine
I stay at familiar places
I talk to myself in empty spaces
But breathing is fine
most of the time
It's half of me, baby
that still is infected
No water has cleansed it
No sleep has erased it
Towards and aways from
This room is a cage
And things I'm trying to write you
lay die on the page
But most of the time I'm breathing fine
Most of the time I'm breathing fine
I played through the great composers
I got through the night
And while in prose and
Breathing is fine,
most of the time
Whatelse I gonna retell you
I just turned thirty-one
The boy with no wings
So he's learned how to run
I hope you keep out of danger now
Stranger to stranger
It's lonely, but only at night
But most of the time I'm breathing fine
Most of the time I'm breathing fine
But breathing is fine,
most of the time
is still so familiar
The pain in my stomach
is better, but baby
Bright colours
have faded too early this year
And strangers look stranger 'round here
The flowers you've left here
have died in the heat
I see parts of your face now,
and girls in the street
I hope you like your new neighbors
Don't sleep with every new stranger
It's lonely, but only at night
And most of the time I'm breathing fine
Most of the time I'm breathing fine
I stay at familiar places
I talk to myself in empty spaces
But breathing is fine
most of the time
It's half of me, baby
that still is infected
No water has cleansed it
No sleep has erased it
Towards and aways from
This room is a cage
And things I'm trying to write you
lay die on the page
But most of the time I'm breathing fine
Most of the time I'm breathing fine
I played through the great composers
I got through the night
And while in prose and
Breathing is fine,
most of the time
Whatelse I gonna retell you
I just turned thirty-one
The boy with no wings
So he's learned how to run
I hope you keep out of danger now
Stranger to stranger
It's lonely, but only at night
But most of the time I'm breathing fine
Most of the time I'm breathing fine
But breathing is fine,
most of the time
Lyrics submitted by ruidurao
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