"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.
These empty days are filling me with pain
After I left it seems my life is only rain
My heart is longing to the better times
When everything was still so fine
I wonder why it happens so fast
You give your heart away knowing it might not last
I´m still here waiting for the rain to fall
And to see you once again
Four thousand rainy nights
Four thousand nights I´d be with you
Four thousand rainy nights with you
I keep your memory in my heart
You give me hope when everything is so dark
That thing nobody can take away
Forever in me
Four thousand rainy nights
Four thousand nights I´d be with you
Four thousand rainy nights with you
After I left it seems my life is only rain
My heart is longing to the better times
When everything was still so fine
I wonder why it happens so fast
You give your heart away knowing it might not last
I´m still here waiting for the rain to fall
And to see you once again
Four thousand rainy nights
Four thousand nights I´d be with you
Four thousand rainy nights with you
I keep your memory in my heart
You give me hope when everything is so dark
That thing nobody can take away
Forever in me
Four thousand rainy nights
Four thousand nights I´d be with you
Four thousand rainy nights with you
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If you like this song try out Another Rainy Night by Queensryche. That song inspired 4000 Rainy Nights. The lyrics are similar but the music is kinda different.
I keep your memory in my heart, you give me hope when everything is so dark. That thing nobody can take away, forever in me
great song reminds me of my last relationship
i thought they used 4000 because 4000 nights = 11 years. is that a significant number for them?
the long and windy road... er, uh, I mean 4000 rainy nights