"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.
I hide, but only to defy you. Take away the only love inside you.
I'll see your face through everyone, inside I've just begun.
You think I'm out to scare you? I'm only out to prepare you.
For when you stop and turn around - your body's going down.
You're gonna waste your time. Your life will soon be mine.
You're definitely one of a kind. You're suffering because of me.
Is divine.
Tell me, why you never liked me? Tell me, once that you'll fight me
Bold, and you wait for the perfect time,
to take what's rightly mine.
You pave the dumb, don't bother me. You say your dumb that to defy me. You wait, you're dumber than anyone.
Oh well....
You're gonna waste your time. Your life will soon be mine.
You're definitely one of a kind. You're suffering because of me.
It's divine.
Fuck you! I'm fed up with you. I'm not as good as you?
Fuck no, I'm better than you. 8X
You're gonna waste your time. Your life will soon be mine.
You're definitely one of a kind. You're suffering because of me.
It's divine.
Did you really think you'd beat me at my own game?
You tried, you see what you got, me ripping at your brain.
I'll see your face through everyone, inside I've just begun.
You think I'm out to scare you? I'm only out to prepare you.
For when you stop and turn around - your body's going down.
You're gonna waste your time. Your life will soon be mine.
You're definitely one of a kind. You're suffering because of me.
Is divine.
Tell me, why you never liked me? Tell me, once that you'll fight me
Bold, and you wait for the perfect time,
to take what's rightly mine.
You pave the dumb, don't bother me. You say your dumb that to defy me. You wait, you're dumber than anyone.
Oh well....
You're gonna waste your time. Your life will soon be mine.
You're definitely one of a kind. You're suffering because of me.
It's divine.
Fuck you! I'm fed up with you. I'm not as good as you?
Fuck no, I'm better than you. 8X
You're gonna waste your time. Your life will soon be mine.
You're definitely one of a kind. You're suffering because of me.
It's divine.
Did you really think you'd beat me at my own game?
You tried, you see what you got, me ripping at your brain.
Lyrics submitted by me109cito
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