"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.
So walk away from the places that you've come to call home/ Leave us and this wreck behind, learn to breath on your own/ For beneath a failed routine there must be a new song/ And I will watch you sing even though you're gone/ For below the sky, under the sun facing the tide/ This beach is clear and alone as I/ Wondering where did you go tonight/ And if how you left was right, giving up without goodbye/ Then why does it still feel like you ran away/ So walk away to keep yourself safe, where no one will be pressuring you to smile/ And I'll miss you when you're gone/ And we'll miss you when you're walking away/ And I'm still listening for that voice, to hear you sing/ A sign that you're ok/ Because I miss you now/ How can you say you're happy now? / Why couldn't you just stay? / So glad to hear that you're standing strong, facing a new hope so fresh to you/ And any time that you ever felt like home, I'll remember your new song and how it drowned me out/ Because now I'm singing too, screaming at the top of my lungs/ "You look so better off, you look so better off standing strong"
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Woot Woot! Im the 1st 2 comment on this! Go me :P This song rawks...n thats basically all I have 2 say bout that!
yea i really like name taken & a lot of their songs. This has to be my favorite b/c the lyrics mean the most "And I will watch you sing even though you're gone" some1 he really liked isnt there anymore but he still cares fo them.
So walk away to keep yourself safe, where no one will be pressuring you to smile/ And I'll miss you when you're gone/ And we'll miss you when you're walking away/ And I'm still listening for that voice, to hear you sing/ A sign that you're ok/Because I miss you now/ How can you say you're happy now? ...thats my favorite part....i love this song