"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 thought I felt you touch my cheek this morning
But I must have been dreaming
And in the middle of the night, without a warning
I thought I heard you breathing
Me and my so-called independence
I got this lonliness that's so relentless
I guess you get used to somebody
Kind of like having them around
I guess you get used to the way they make you happy
Bring you up when you're feeling down
I never dreamed when I was letting you go
That I would wake up and miss you this much
I guess you get used to somebody
I guess you get used to being loved
I kind of miss those rambling coversations
Where we talk about nothing
The way you always made me laugh at my frustrations
Baby, that was somethin'
I should have been careful what I wished for
'Cause I got my freedom and so much more
I guess you get used to somebody
Kind of like having them around
I guess you get used to the way they make you happy
Bring you up when you're feeling down
I never dreamed when I was letting you go
That I would wake up and miss you this much
I guess you get used to somebody
I guess you get used to being loved
I never dreamed when I was letting you go
That I would wake up and miss you this much
I guess you get used to somebody
I guess you get used to being loved
But I must have been dreaming
And in the middle of the night, without a warning
I thought I heard you breathing
Me and my so-called independence
I got this lonliness that's so relentless
I guess you get used to somebody
Kind of like having them around
I guess you get used to the way they make you happy
Bring you up when you're feeling down
I never dreamed when I was letting you go
That I would wake up and miss you this much
I guess you get used to somebody
I guess you get used to being loved
I kind of miss those rambling coversations
Where we talk about nothing
The way you always made me laugh at my frustrations
Baby, that was somethin'
I should have been careful what I wished for
'Cause I got my freedom and so much more
I guess you get used to somebody
Kind of like having them around
I guess you get used to the way they make you happy
Bring you up when you're feeling down
I never dreamed when I was letting you go
That I would wake up and miss you this much
I guess you get used to somebody
I guess you get used to being loved
I never dreamed when I was letting you go
That I would wake up and miss you this much
I guess you get used to somebody
I guess you get used to being loved
Lyrics submitted by Gorjess
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wow no one has written anything! this song it totally explained in the title: i guess you get use to somebody kinda like having them around. it's all about how once you loose something comfortable you can miss the comfortable feeling even if that's what you didnt like about the relationship. You truly do get use to being loved!