"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.
Please tell me what is taking place
'Cause I can't seem to find a trace
Guess it must have got erased somehow
Probably 'cause I always forget
Every time someone tells me their name
It's always gotta be the same
(In my World)
Never wore cover-up
Always beat the boys up
Grew up in a 5000 population town
Made my money by cutting grass
Got fired by fried chicken ass
All in a small town, Napanee
You know I always stay up without sleepin'
And think to myself
Where do I belong forever
In whose arms, the time and place?
Can't help if I space in a daze
My eyes tune out the other way
I may switch off and go in a daydream
In this head my thoughts are deep
But sometimes I can't even speak
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
I never spend less than an hour
Washin' my hair in the shower
It always takes 5 hours to make it straight
So I'll braid it in a zillion braids
Though it may take all friggen day
There's nothin' else better to do anyway
When you're all alone in the lands of forever
Lay under the milky way
On and on it's getting too late out
I'm not in love this time this night
Can't help if I space in a daze
My eyes tune out the other way
I may switch off and go in a daydream
In this head my thoughts are deep
But sometimes I can't even speak
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
Take some time
Mellow out
Party up
But don't fall down
Don't get caught
Sneak out of the house
Can't help if I space in a daze
My eyes tune out the other way
I may switch off and go in a daydream
In this head my thoughts are deep
But sometimes I can't even speak
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
Can't help if I space in a daze
My eyes tune out the other way
I may switch off and go in a daydream
In this head my thoughts are deep
But sometimes I can't even speak
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
'Cause I can't seem to find a trace
Guess it must have got erased somehow
Probably 'cause I always forget
Every time someone tells me their name
It's always gotta be the same
(In my World)
Never wore cover-up
Always beat the boys up
Grew up in a 5000 population town
Made my money by cutting grass
Got fired by fried chicken ass
All in a small town, Napanee
You know I always stay up without sleepin'
And think to myself
Where do I belong forever
In whose arms, the time and place?
Can't help if I space in a daze
My eyes tune out the other way
I may switch off and go in a daydream
In this head my thoughts are deep
But sometimes I can't even speak
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
I never spend less than an hour
Washin' my hair in the shower
It always takes 5 hours to make it straight
So I'll braid it in a zillion braids
Though it may take all friggen day
There's nothin' else better to do anyway
When you're all alone in the lands of forever
Lay under the milky way
On and on it's getting too late out
I'm not in love this time this night
Can't help if I space in a daze
My eyes tune out the other way
I may switch off and go in a daydream
In this head my thoughts are deep
But sometimes I can't even speak
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
Take some time
Mellow out
Party up
But don't fall down
Don't get caught
Sneak out of the house
Can't help if I space in a daze
My eyes tune out the other way
I may switch off and go in a daydream
In this head my thoughts are deep
But sometimes I can't even speak
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
Can't help if I space in a daze
My eyes tune out the other way
I may switch off and go in a daydream
In this head my thoughts are deep
But sometimes I can't even speak
Would someone be and not pretend? I'm off again in my World
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lol punk junkie. anyway i personally don't like this song at all. but i beat her. i'm growin up in a town of 150 baby. its great. hell yeah. go small hick towns. .....not really i gotta get out of this hell hole. save me
ha..this song rules. it's so my town too. there's shit to do here and its getting boring, so me and my friends have resorted to causing chaos and reeking havoc
i can totally relate to this song. i live in a 1 square mile town and it is the most boring place on earth. i spend a lot of time straightening my hair everyday and once i punched a boy in the face when he was making fun of me. so when i heard this song i was like "wait..." haha
aaah what a great song, i wasnt really into avril at first just cause i didnt give her music a chance but now that i have im wicked glad! this song and sk8er boi are probably my two favorite songs by avril! punk rock girls are gonna win people over some day, i swear
I grew up not that far from Napanee... and like everything that goes on in my pretty lil town, theres so many things that ppl know about her and its so easy to run into someone that personally knew her. I like this song tho bcuz its from our small towns in Ontario. Take her seriously tho when she says Dont get caught sneak outta the house. lol
I'm really sick of people who talk down on the people who comment that she is good at writing the lyrics. I'm sure that most people understand the fact that not all artists write thier own lyrics. Someone else is responsible for the words. The artist just delivers them to the people. I feel that this song describes me, close to as I would describe myself.
Aight all you fools out there who dog on Avril...listen up b/c you're about to get it. Yeah, she dogs Britney freaking Spears, who wouldn't she's fake. Everyone says "like" and crap like that. Chill the freak out. At least Avril has the guts to be true, unlike your precious little Britney Spears. This song rocks, I live in a small town, and everything she says it true. ROCK ON!! rockstar
this song i can totally relate to
how great is this song...2 bad i live ina town like that...andi feel like that shit is happenin to me...avril has the best lyrics..so meaningful
yeah i live in a town twice as big as napanee and it's still like that