"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.
Give me a reason now that I can understand
I pick up the pieces now and put 'em in my hand
I've been up and down for you
My suffering extreme
I fell on my face for you
Now I know what it means
And I self destruct
I close my eyes and there
There you are
There you are
You are
There you are
Yeah you can run out west, forget you know my name
You say you got your shit together, but you ain't got no faith
Method in madness
Now there's madness in my soul
I run from the darkness now
I've got no place to go
And I self destruct
I close my eyes and there,
There you are
There you are
You are
There you are
And there you are
There you are
You are
There you are
There you are
There you are
There you are
I pick up the pieces now and put 'em in my hand
I've been up and down for you
My suffering extreme
I fell on my face for you
Now I know what it means
And I self destruct
I close my eyes and there
There you are
There you are
You are
There you are
Yeah you can run out west, forget you know my name
You say you got your shit together, but you ain't got no faith
Method in madness
Now there's madness in my soul
I run from the darkness now
I've got no place to go
And I self destruct
I close my eyes and there,
There you are
There you are
You are
There you are
And there you are
There you are
You are
There you are
There you are
There you are
There you are
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There You Are [Album Version] Lyrics as written by John Rzeznik George Tutuska
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Awesome song! and a cool music video!
I love this song it is awesome There old stuff is just pure awesome!
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there you are :)) he has a redy brown mullet in it its cute hahah !! deadly video :)