"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.
The hardest part is waking up without you there
And it's been so long
I'm thinking about letting you know
Just what's on my mind
What's wrong what's right
We will learn in time
Who exactly makes these rules
And you can't deny
What's set in the stars
And what I read in the sky
But if you held my hand
We would take this world on
By storm
And you said that
You wouldn't put me in this position
But I can't put my faith in something
That just won't last
What's wrong what's right
We will learn in time
Who exactly makes these rules
And you can't deny
What's set in the stars
And what I read in the sky
But if you held my hand
We would take this world on
By storm
And it's been so long
I'm thinking about letting you know
Just what's on my mind
What's wrong what's right
We will learn in time
Who exactly makes these rules
And you can't deny
What's set in the stars
And what I read in the sky
But if you held my hand
We would take this world on
By storm
And you said that
You wouldn't put me in this position
But I can't put my faith in something
That just won't last
What's wrong what's right
We will learn in time
Who exactly makes these rules
And you can't deny
What's set in the stars
And what I read in the sky
But if you held my hand
We would take this world on
By storm
Lyrics submitted by tsucol
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wow.
x187x that was exactly what i was thinking...