"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.
One more time you've
Gotten into my head
I've let your words get
Into me
Every time I try to talk,
You never listen
You got the answers,
I don't know a thing
But you ask me what these
Lights are in my eyes
They're a freight train
Ahead
And they're straight
Coming your way
You've tied yourself down
To the tracks
Now you want help from me
To cut you free
If it was me
My hour of need
You'd leave me there to
Bleed
I'm fucking sick of you
And all that shit you're
Pulling
Your fuckin' attitude
Had better go on
You cheat and you lie
And you stole and denied
And you turned on your
Friends
When you burned all those
Bridges
This time you won't be
Getting under my skin
What you had I've taken
Away
Tell me what you're gonna
Do, it doesn't matter
You're always talking, it
Don't mean a thing
So ask me what these
Lights are in my eyes
They're a freight train
Ahead
And they're straight
Coming your way
You've tied yourself down
To the tracks
Now you want help from me
To cut you free
If it was me
My hour of need
You'd leave me there to
Bleed
I'm fucking sick of you
And all that shit you're
Pulling
Your fuckin' attitude
Had better go on
You cheat and you lie
And you stole and denied
And you turned on your
Friends
When you burned all those
Bridges
Well you sat there and
Cried
As these words came to
Glide
Through your delicate skin
Leaving blood on these
Pages
So how does it feel
To be at one with the fate I
Seal
They're a freight train
Ahead
And they're straight
Coming your way
You've tied yourself down
To the tracks
Now you want help from
Me to cut you free
If it was me
My hour of need
You'd leave me there
To bleed
I'm fucking sick of you
And all that shit you're
Pulling
Your fuckin' attitude
Had better go on
You cheat and you lie
And you stole and denied
And you turned on your
Friends
When you burned all those
Bridges.
Gotten into my head
I've let your words get
Into me
Every time I try to talk,
You never listen
You got the answers,
I don't know a thing
But you ask me what these
Lights are in my eyes
They're a freight train
Ahead
And they're straight
Coming your way
You've tied yourself down
To the tracks
Now you want help from me
To cut you free
If it was me
My hour of need
You'd leave me there to
Bleed
I'm fucking sick of you
And all that shit you're
Pulling
Your fuckin' attitude
Had better go on
You cheat and you lie
And you stole and denied
And you turned on your
Friends
When you burned all those
Bridges
This time you won't be
Getting under my skin
What you had I've taken
Away
Tell me what you're gonna
Do, it doesn't matter
You're always talking, it
Don't mean a thing
So ask me what these
Lights are in my eyes
They're a freight train
Ahead
And they're straight
Coming your way
You've tied yourself down
To the tracks
Now you want help from me
To cut you free
If it was me
My hour of need
You'd leave me there to
Bleed
I'm fucking sick of you
And all that shit you're
Pulling
Your fuckin' attitude
Had better go on
You cheat and you lie
And you stole and denied
And you turned on your
Friends
When you burned all those
Bridges
Well you sat there and
Cried
As these words came to
Glide
Through your delicate skin
Leaving blood on these
Pages
So how does it feel
To be at one with the fate I
Seal
They're a freight train
Ahead
And they're straight
Coming your way
You've tied yourself down
To the tracks
Now you want help from
Me to cut you free
If it was me
My hour of need
You'd leave me there
To bleed
I'm fucking sick of you
And all that shit you're
Pulling
Your fuckin' attitude
Had better go on
You cheat and you lie
And you stole and denied
And you turned on your
Friends
When you burned all those
Bridges.
Lyrics submitted by HoldURBreath
Nausea Lyrics as written by Ahrue Luster Adam Duce
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so heres to our coligen lips and salene tits to our growth hormones and antibiotics to the hollywood world we made out of barbie doll hearts after we melted em down so we could make our new start yes to a generation scared and always wonderin why instead of playin doctor we play shoot each other and die instead of ring around the rosie we play hide from mommy cause mommys been drinkin again and we dont want to get beat if you take all the tattoos and all the cheap clothes theres still a hole inside of us that may not ever get filled so would you take a little bit of what the worlds given us and give it back to them by not givin a fuck
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