"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 guess it's only the men
Who get fucked now and again
We take our chicks to the mall
We wait in parking stalls
And when we come home too late
She's pissed that she had to wait
And my excuse not to call
It never worked at all
Time to wake up
Where's your daughter?
Hurts to break up
She was stronger
All my friends say
Please don't love her
What did I gain?
Now I miss her so
I used to hate the lipstick
It stained and tasted so sick
The panty hose and the bra
She threw on my guitar
Shit Fuck I made a mistake
I thought I needed a break
The truth is I'm such a dick
It's broke and can't be fixed
Time to wake up
Where's your daughter?
Hurts to break up
She was stronger
All my friends say
Please don't love her
What did I gain?
Now I miss her so
If you want to call it a heart ache (a heart ache)
Then I sure regret those things, I miss her
If you want the pain to go away (to go away)
Better suck up your pride, admit you lost her
Let her go (let her go), move on (move on)
let her go (let her go), move on (move on)
let her go (let her go)
Time to wake up
Where's your daughter?
Hurts to break up
She was stronger
All my friends say
Please don't love her
What did I gain?
Now I miss her so
Move on (move on), let her go (let her go)
Move on (move on), let her go (let her go)
Move on (move on), let her go (let her go)
Move on (move on), let her go (let her go)
Who get fucked now and again
We take our chicks to the mall
We wait in parking stalls
And when we come home too late
She's pissed that she had to wait
And my excuse not to call
It never worked at all
Time to wake up
Where's your daughter?
Hurts to break up
She was stronger
All my friends say
Please don't love her
What did I gain?
Now I miss her so
I used to hate the lipstick
It stained and tasted so sick
The panty hose and the bra
She threw on my guitar
Shit Fuck I made a mistake
I thought I needed a break
The truth is I'm such a dick
It's broke and can't be fixed
Time to wake up
Where's your daughter?
Hurts to break up
She was stronger
All my friends say
Please don't love her
What did I gain?
Now I miss her so
If you want to call it a heart ache (a heart ache)
Then I sure regret those things, I miss her
If you want the pain to go away (to go away)
Better suck up your pride, admit you lost her
Let her go (let her go), move on (move on)
let her go (let her go), move on (move on)
let her go (let her go)
Time to wake up
Where's your daughter?
Hurts to break up
She was stronger
All my friends say
Please don't love her
What did I gain?
Now I miss her so
Move on (move on), let her go (let her go)
Move on (move on), let her go (let her go)
Move on (move on), let her go (let her go)
Move on (move on), let her go (let her go)
Lyrics submitted by ScreamingInfidelity, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Time To Break Up Lyrics as written by Thomas Delonge Mark Hoppus
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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