"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.
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Push
Push
Push
Push
I lost you
You were my god
Thought what do I do now
You were never there for me
Never there to carry me
26 years looking back that time is gone
It was you I believed in
Look what you've done to me
Realize what you've done to
Me!
I can't bleed
I can't bleed
I want to bleed
Before my life just walks away from me
I can't see going on,
In this darkness I'm blind,
Beneath my cradle, the bough has broke,
I exorcise my loss,
Your lies, punishment
It takes time
To try to mend the wounds of all the suffering
What do I do now
And, all I'm asking from you please
Send me a sign,
To guide me through the times that lie in front of me
I'll get by
Myself
Look at me now, a piece of shit like you!
Look at me now, you left me, so fuck you!
Look at me now, a piece of shit like you!
Look at me now, you left me, so fuck you!
'cause, everybody leaves me
Everybody's gone.
Watch my father leave me
There's nobody left.
Feels like I've never been loved!
Everybody leaves me
Never gave a shit about me.
Everybody's gone
I'll rot in my head alone.
I don't give a fuck about you, go the fuck away
I don't give a fuck about you, go the fuck away
I don't give a fuck about you, go the fuck away
I don't give a fuck about you, go the fuck away
(i'll rot in my head all alone)
Fucking cocksucker
Fake being
Inside of my heart you are the liar
Innocence displaced
Institutionalized in my own life
Been left.
Here I stand now and I'm alone
With no one to comfort me
One set of footprints in the sand
No one to take my hand, I'll
I'll walk through as long as I need
I'll drift through my life though I'm alone
Outgrown the cradle that once housed me
And I've found that all I need is
Me
Me
Me
Me
Found I've never needed you
To push through
All the shit that stacks up
Inside of my life
Endless plight that circulates through my body
I'll keep stumbling
Beating
Pummeling
Teething on the rind and
Renounce my being
I can't see going on
I can't see going on
I can't see going on
I can't see going on
I can't see
I'm to tired
I can't see
Well, I can't see goin' on
I'm so tired
Of trying to mend the wounds of all my suffering
What do I do now
And, all I'm asking from you please
Send me a sign
To guide me through the times that lie in front of me
I'll get by
Myself
I can't see going on, fuck it!
I can't see going on, fuck it!
I can't see going on, fuck it!
I can't see going on, fuck it!
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Push
Push
Push
Push
I lost you
You were my god
Thought what do I do now
You were never there for me
Never there to carry me
26 years looking back that time is gone
It was you I believed in
Look what you've done to me
Realize what you've done to
Me!
I can't bleed
I can't bleed
I want to bleed
Before my life just walks away from me
I can't see going on,
In this darkness I'm blind,
Beneath my cradle, the bough has broke,
I exorcise my loss,
Your lies, punishment
It takes time
To try to mend the wounds of all the suffering
What do I do now
And, all I'm asking from you please
Send me a sign,
To guide me through the times that lie in front of me
I'll get by
Myself
Look at me now, a piece of shit like you!
Look at me now, you left me, so fuck you!
Look at me now, a piece of shit like you!
Look at me now, you left me, so fuck you!
'cause, everybody leaves me
Everybody's gone.
Watch my father leave me
There's nobody left.
Feels like I've never been loved!
Everybody leaves me
Never gave a shit about me.
Everybody's gone
I'll rot in my head alone.
I don't give a fuck about you, go the fuck away
I don't give a fuck about you, go the fuck away
I don't give a fuck about you, go the fuck away
I don't give a fuck about you, go the fuck away
(i'll rot in my head all alone)
Fucking cocksucker
Fake being
Inside of my heart you are the liar
Innocence displaced
Institutionalized in my own life
Been left.
Here I stand now and I'm alone
With no one to comfort me
One set of footprints in the sand
No one to take my hand, I'll
I'll walk through as long as I need
I'll drift through my life though I'm alone
Outgrown the cradle that once housed me
And I've found that all I need is
Me
Me
Me
Me
Found I've never needed you
To push through
All the shit that stacks up
Inside of my life
Endless plight that circulates through my body
I'll keep stumbling
Beating
Pummeling
Teething on the rind and
Renounce my being
I can't see going on
I can't see going on
I can't see going on
I can't see going on
I can't see
I'm to tired
I can't see
Well, I can't see goin' on
I'm so tired
Of trying to mend the wounds of all my suffering
What do I do now
And, all I'm asking from you please
Send me a sign
To guide me through the times that lie in front of me
I'll get by
Myself
I can't see going on, fuck it!
I can't see going on, fuck it!
I can't see going on, fuck it!
I can't see going on, fuck it!
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