"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.
Can't you see that we are
Running out of time
I am dying but I will not die
Somebody save me from myself
Somebody save me
Stop, wait a minute
Stop, sinking in it
Woe, not again
Now stop it you're exaggerating
Stop
Life's so screwed up
And I can't describe
All the bullshit that I feel inside
Somebody save me form my hell
Somebody save me
Stop
Somebody save me from myself
Somebody please before I melt
Somebody save me from my hell
Somebody save me
Save me
Stop
Running out of time
I am dying but I will not die
Somebody save me from myself
Somebody save me
Stop, wait a minute
Stop, sinking in it
Woe, not again
Now stop it you're exaggerating
Stop
Life's so screwed up
And I can't describe
All the bullshit that I feel inside
Somebody save me form my hell
Somebody save me
Stop
Somebody save me from myself
Somebody please before I melt
Somebody save me from my hell
Somebody save me
Save me
Stop
Lyrics submitted by thekronic420
Stop Lyrics as written by Tripp Eisen Brian Ebejer
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