"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.
where have i been all your life
sitting on fences
a novocaine for all the senses
another year will pass us by
making sense of nothing
in defense of something
i laughed too late
and dug myself into a grave
this year I'll try not to think too much
this year I'll try to stand up for myself
this year I'll live like I've never lived before
this is my year for sure
another stupid clumsy story
more accidental aspirations
another explosion of silence
i think i'm going deaf
or maybe i'm just hearing less
this year i'll try to only listen to myself
i wonder where
you'll be bringing in the new year
as midnight clocks are singing
good chance I'll be slobbering somewhere
probably pass out wasted
and sleep until the smoke clears
vague memories of midnight
flash in time to morning sunlight
wake up knowing you'll never be there.
i've got 100 resolutions
but i've got no solutions
i've got one song i write 100 times
and only a dozen or so rhymes
this year i'll try not to drink so much.
this year i'll try to stand up straight.
this year let's live like we've never lived before
this is our year for sure
sitting on fences
a novocaine for all the senses
another year will pass us by
making sense of nothing
in defense of something
i laughed too late
and dug myself into a grave
this year I'll try not to think too much
this year I'll try to stand up for myself
this year I'll live like I've never lived before
this is my year for sure
another stupid clumsy story
more accidental aspirations
another explosion of silence
i think i'm going deaf
or maybe i'm just hearing less
this year i'll try to only listen to myself
i wonder where
you'll be bringing in the new year
as midnight clocks are singing
good chance I'll be slobbering somewhere
probably pass out wasted
and sleep until the smoke clears
vague memories of midnight
flash in time to morning sunlight
wake up knowing you'll never be there.
i've got 100 resolutions
but i've got no solutions
i've got one song i write 100 times
and only a dozen or so rhymes
this year i'll try not to drink so much.
this year i'll try to stand up straight.
this year let's live like we've never lived before
this is our year for sure
Lyrics submitted by AllStarMe
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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this song is great, i did my final english project on how much it rules