"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.
summer nights are growing cold
august goodbyes are getting close
so lets leave all of the windows open tonight
leave us no choice but to cuddle close
and we'll kiss all night
wake tomorrow morning with chapped lips on our faces
I will pass on Vaseline and for all to see, I'll wear these
battle-scars burned by your taste
because I want to feel like this forever
I just want to feel the way I feel now
I just want to feel the way I feel now forever.
always remember the nights we shared
laid out on soccer fields when we stared up at the stars
trying hard to stop the hands of time, to stop the world
I would do anything not to have to say goodbye.
I promised myself that I would never let her go
without saying how I feel
and letting her know.
that I want to feel like this forever
I just want to feel the way I feel now
I just want to feel the way I feel now forever.
Now she's on her way
and it gets harder and harder each and everyday
But she said that she will be home someday
So she will be home someday.
august goodbyes are getting close
so lets leave all of the windows open tonight
leave us no choice but to cuddle close
and we'll kiss all night
wake tomorrow morning with chapped lips on our faces
I will pass on Vaseline and for all to see, I'll wear these
battle-scars burned by your taste
because I want to feel like this forever
I just want to feel the way I feel now
I just want to feel the way I feel now forever.
always remember the nights we shared
laid out on soccer fields when we stared up at the stars
trying hard to stop the hands of time, to stop the world
I would do anything not to have to say goodbye.
I promised myself that I would never let her go
without saying how I feel
and letting her know.
that I want to feel like this forever
I just want to feel the way I feel now
I just want to feel the way I feel now forever.
Now she's on her way
and it gets harder and harder each and everyday
But she said that she will be home someday
So she will be home someday.
Lyrics submitted by MyBleedingSilence
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