"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 have always been different I like to be,
But every time they got something to say to me.
One day I had to be, I made a different me
But got trouble next day I went school, you see.
Two big fellows which don't much about like in me
Put me in to the games where I don't want to be.
In other words no one don't like me there.
Sometimes I really care, I can't be myself.
Then one day I didn't meet the chosen one,
I took a gun, party's just begun.
Inside of me there still lives a part of me,
It put me back to the Earth, where I belong to be
I get along well with this feeling in my mind,
If I should say something, I would say nothing
'cause I'll kiss my only friend what I've got, ever had
But still I can't ..I can't be myself.
I'm gonna the way I want to be,
Nobody want to talk with me, no.
Do I have to be or let my feelings free?
Take a look at me, the way I want to be.
I made decisions right, my feelings came from inside,
I took a drug ride, I felt part of me died.
My life turned from that good to that very bad,
There were only me, my pipe and those drugs I had
One day I just will be, I'm gonna be real me,
I think I cannot be, I can't be myself!
But every time they got something to say to me.
One day I had to be, I made a different me
But got trouble next day I went school, you see.
Two big fellows which don't much about like in me
Put me in to the games where I don't want to be.
In other words no one don't like me there.
Sometimes I really care, I can't be myself.
Then one day I didn't meet the chosen one,
I took a gun, party's just begun.
Inside of me there still lives a part of me,
It put me back to the Earth, where I belong to be
I get along well with this feeling in my mind,
If I should say something, I would say nothing
'cause I'll kiss my only friend what I've got, ever had
But still I can't ..I can't be myself.
I'm gonna the way I want to be,
Nobody want to talk with me, no.
Do I have to be or let my feelings free?
Take a look at me, the way I want to be.
I made decisions right, my feelings came from inside,
I took a drug ride, I felt part of me died.
My life turned from that good to that very bad,
There were only me, my pipe and those drugs I had
One day I just will be, I'm gonna be real me,
I think I cannot be, I can't be myself!
Lyrics submitted by Pumpkin-86
Myself Lyrics as written by Janne Samuli Heiskanen Eero Aleksi Heinonen
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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