"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.
Got this dagger in my back
The blade inside me burning
Change these colours in my head
Turn to face the real thing
So what about me, what I want to be
What about me, hear me when I speak
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
But sometimes you feel it, do you know how it is?
You wake up in the morning and everything thing fits.
I'm still hoping tomorrow feels like this
My Perfect day
Twist inside me feel it break
The rubber band keeps turning
See the tracks worn in my face
Hallucinate while I'm burying.
So what about me, what I want to be
What about me, hear me when I speak
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
But sometimes you feel it, do you know how it is?
You wake up in the morning and everything thing fits.
I'm still hoping tomorrow feels like this
My Perfect day
I can't believe this anymore
I just don't see this anymore
I'm stepping out into the rain, again
See my satellite in space
Sending back the weather
Try to find myself some space
Move on up the ladder
So what about me, what I want to be
What about me, hear me when I speak
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
But sometimes you feel it, do you know how it is?
You wake up in the morning and everything thing fits.
I'm still hoping tomorrow feels like this
My Perfect day, My perfect day
But sometimes you feel it, do you know how it is?
You wake up in the morning and everything thing fits.
I'm still hoping tomorrow feels like this
My Perfect day, My perfect day
My Perfect day
The blade inside me burning
Change these colours in my head
Turn to face the real thing
So what about me, what I want to be
What about me, hear me when I speak
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
But sometimes you feel it, do you know how it is?
You wake up in the morning and everything thing fits.
I'm still hoping tomorrow feels like this
My Perfect day
Twist inside me feel it break
The rubber band keeps turning
See the tracks worn in my face
Hallucinate while I'm burying.
So what about me, what I want to be
What about me, hear me when I speak
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
But sometimes you feel it, do you know how it is?
You wake up in the morning and everything thing fits.
I'm still hoping tomorrow feels like this
My Perfect day
I can't believe this anymore
I just don't see this anymore
I'm stepping out into the rain, again
See my satellite in space
Sending back the weather
Try to find myself some space
Move on up the ladder
So what about me, what I want to be
What about me, hear me when I speak
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
(I can't take it, I won't make it)
But sometimes you feel it, do you know how it is?
You wake up in the morning and everything thing fits.
I'm still hoping tomorrow feels like this
My Perfect day, My perfect day
But sometimes you feel it, do you know how it is?
You wake up in the morning and everything thing fits.
I'm still hoping tomorrow feels like this
My Perfect day, My perfect day
My Perfect day
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
My Perfect Day Lyrics as written by Jon Lee Grant Nicholas
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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I have to disagree with you both, I think it is rather about breaking through, they sing that the day is perfect dispite of all the bad things, nothing matters because whatever makes it a perfect day is so powerful a feeling