"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.
Watching the days burning out like a cigarette, just a few drags to go.
You built me up and you broke me down, somehow
Everything just seemed so clear to me, nothing left to know
I'll love you right and I'll love you pure, right now
How can you say, that its too late
To save us now
And I would wait for you, if you would wait for me
And I will Wait for you, if you will wait for me
Intoxicated, the edge is serrated, so easily torn from the core
I blushed the first time, but you blushed the last time my eyes hit your mind
Regenerated these feelings of hatred, I long for your love ever more
You built me up and you broke me down this time
And I would wait for you, if you would wait for me
And I will Wait for you, if you will wait for me
How can you say that its too late, to save us now
How can you say
You built me up and you broke me down, somehow
Everything just seemed so clear to me, nothing left to know
I'll love you right and I'll love you pure, right now
How can you say, that its too late
To save us now
And I would wait for you, if you would wait for me
And I will Wait for you, if you will wait for me
Intoxicated, the edge is serrated, so easily torn from the core
I blushed the first time, but you blushed the last time my eyes hit your mind
Regenerated these feelings of hatred, I long for your love ever more
You built me up and you broke me down this time
And I would wait for you, if you would wait for me
And I will Wait for you, if you will wait for me
How can you say that its too late, to save us now
How can you say
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Cigarette Lyrics as written by Longineu Parsons Iii Benjamin Eric Harper
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