"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.
You move in waves
You never retrace
Your newest craze
Straight out of the face by the bed unread
I'm left behind
Like all the others
Some fall for you
It doesn't make much difference if they do
She changes every time you look
By summer it was all gone, now she's moved on
She called you every other day
So savor it, it's all gone, now she's moved on
So for a while
Everything seemed new
Did we connect?
Or was it all just biding time for you?
She changes every time you look (all gone away)
By summer it was all gone, now she's moved on (she's moving on)
She called you every other day (all gone away)
So savor it, it's all gone, now she's moved on (she's moving on)
She's moved on
She's moved on
She's moved on
She's moved on
She changes every time you look
By summer it was all gone, now she's moved on
She called you every other day (all gone away)
So savor it, it's all gone, now she's moved on (she's moving on)
(All gone away)
(She's moving on)
(All gone away)
(She's moving on)
(All gone away)
(She's moving on)
(All gone away)
(She's moving on)
You never retrace
Your newest craze
Straight out of the face by the bed unread
I'm left behind
Like all the others
Some fall for you
It doesn't make much difference if they do
She changes every time you look
By summer it was all gone, now she's moved on
She called you every other day
So savor it, it's all gone, now she's moved on
So for a while
Everything seemed new
Did we connect?
Or was it all just biding time for you?
She changes every time you look (all gone away)
By summer it was all gone, now she's moved on (she's moving on)
She called you every other day (all gone away)
So savor it, it's all gone, now she's moved on (she's moving on)
She's moved on
She's moved on
She's moved on
She's moved on
She changes every time you look
By summer it was all gone, now she's moved on
She called you every other day (all gone away)
So savor it, it's all gone, now she's moved on (she's moving on)
(All gone away)
(She's moving on)
(All gone away)
(She's moving on)
(All gone away)
(She's moving on)
(All gone away)
(She's moving on)
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Great version of a great song,
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couldn't agree more