"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.
Jenni killed her dad with her car
And now she's a millionaire
She got beat on mostly for being at home
So mostly she wasn't there
And me i'm waiting to see
What goes around when she comes around
To kill me
Were you dead way before tonight?
Throw it back and stay awhile
We go out and we pass out in our clothes again
Giving it and losing it for the time of our lives
I'm giving it and losing it for the time of my life
You're giving it and losing it for the time of your life
Were you dead way before tonight?
Throw it back and stay a while
I've seen red most of this little life
Throw it back and we'll die a while
I know what it means: "you got me"
We're not sick we just need it for the weekends
On mondays it's gone
I used to think I was invisible beside you i'd crumble
You wait for it and you wait for it and it's gone
And you wake up and nobody knows that I loved you buried alive
Were you dead before tonight?
Throw it back and stay a while
I've seen red most of this little life
Throw it back and we'll die a while
And now she's a millionaire
She got beat on mostly for being at home
So mostly she wasn't there
And me i'm waiting to see
What goes around when she comes around
To kill me
Were you dead way before tonight?
Throw it back and stay awhile
We go out and we pass out in our clothes again
Giving it and losing it for the time of our lives
I'm giving it and losing it for the time of my life
You're giving it and losing it for the time of your life
Were you dead way before tonight?
Throw it back and stay a while
I've seen red most of this little life
Throw it back and we'll die a while
I know what it means: "you got me"
We're not sick we just need it for the weekends
On mondays it's gone
I used to think I was invisible beside you i'd crumble
You wait for it and you wait for it and it's gone
And you wake up and nobody knows that I loved you buried alive
Were you dead before tonight?
Throw it back and stay a while
I've seen red most of this little life
Throw it back and we'll die a while
Lyrics submitted by Little Butcher Boy
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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yea this is about what everyone is saying. its pretty self explanitory. Iv always felt that Matt loves this girl who's been through some abuse from her dad, and although she can be timid and okay with everythin, he knows it scarred her deeply. I think although he loves the chick he is somewhat intimidated by the anger she has towards her past and he tries to make her feel good, but is scared that she could easily turn her agression on him someday as she's not complelely stable. (Jenni killed her dad with her car and now she's a millionaire) Could that mean that she somehow gets so ragefilled about her past that she turns on Matt and kills him in place of her dad, inheriting his fortune?