"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.
Six more times sight in your eye
You think you're innocent, innocent
Pull back and assess the skinned sky
To see your innocence, innocence
use just once and destroy
Searching for answers, you never employ
Complete become your vision now
It's the same as I am
it's just true incest now
To save your sins again you're innocent
Reflect the hate in your eyes
Convex you're down, concave you're in again
use just once and destroy
Searching for answers, you never employ
Complete become your vision now
It's the same as I am
Must you see this storm cloud
hit reset, reset
Time and time again
Hit reset, reset
Time and time again
sweat drenched hands, is it blood fuck who cares
I cannot help the joy I'm feeling
Hurting you, you're beautiful when you cry
If you love...
you'd understand the way
Clever thoughts withstand
And sway against your pain
I can give a thing your way
To believe in, to believe in
Your heart
I'm sorry for this now but I have to hurt I have to kill you
You think you're innocent, innocent
Pull back and assess the skinned sky
To see your innocence, innocence
use just once and destroy
Searching for answers, you never employ
Complete become your vision now
It's the same as I am
it's just true incest now
To save your sins again you're innocent
Reflect the hate in your eyes
Convex you're down, concave you're in again
use just once and destroy
Searching for answers, you never employ
Complete become your vision now
It's the same as I am
Must you see this storm cloud
hit reset, reset
Time and time again
Hit reset, reset
Time and time again
sweat drenched hands, is it blood fuck who cares
I cannot help the joy I'm feeling
Hurting you, you're beautiful when you cry
If you love...
you'd understand the way
Clever thoughts withstand
And sway against your pain
I can give a thing your way
To believe in, to believe in
Your heart
I'm sorry for this now but I have to hurt I have to kill you
Lyrics submitted by RicePaperPrincess, edited by Padilla
Convex, Concave Lyrics as written by Simon Neil
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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