"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.
My world has gone up in flames
Every light has faded down
You can see the pain in me
The pain you created in me
It hurts to say my hate
Purely out to your face
Yeah the things I think about you
The evil your good has done
And how deep it has torn me
Chorus
You see through you
You hoped I wouldn't see in you
Cause you fucked up really bad
We are not all you wanted
You know you can't bend us
And damn it's our fault again
How can you want me to change
To your standard of my life
It's not my fault that I'm here
But if I left you would be mad
That I couldn't live with the pain
So now it's up to you, to you
You made me the way I am
So you make everything better
(Chorus)
You call me weak, am I?
Weak holding your hate?
Weak holding my head high?
Weak holding on, holding you?
Holding on to reasons that
Smoulder inside my heart
And in my mind, get it right
It's taking much to long
(Chorus)
You want me to be something
Something I could never be
You'll try to shape me
Around your world of hypocrisy
In all your splendour of a lie
That you never told anyone
You can't see the signs of hate
So I'll give you one you can't miss
Every light has faded down
You can see the pain in me
The pain you created in me
It hurts to say my hate
Purely out to your face
Yeah the things I think about you
The evil your good has done
And how deep it has torn me
Chorus
You see through you
You hoped I wouldn't see in you
Cause you fucked up really bad
We are not all you wanted
You know you can't bend us
And damn it's our fault again
How can you want me to change
To your standard of my life
It's not my fault that I'm here
But if I left you would be mad
That I couldn't live with the pain
So now it's up to you, to you
You made me the way I am
So you make everything better
(Chorus)
You call me weak, am I?
Weak holding your hate?
Weak holding my head high?
Weak holding on, holding you?
Holding on to reasons that
Smoulder inside my heart
And in my mind, get it right
It's taking much to long
(Chorus)
You want me to be something
Something I could never be
You'll try to shape me
Around your world of hypocrisy
In all your splendour of a lie
That you never told anyone
You can't see the signs of hate
So I'll give you one you can't miss
Lyrics submitted by zakkwylde
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