"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.
Skippin' school when I was a senior
My brother's ID and some cheap beer
Free bird blastin' on the radio
Mama didn't like it, but I let my hair grow
And I remember you and me
Drawin' hearts in the window steam
Holdin' on to seventeen
Those days ain't never comin' back
Swept away by the winds of change
Time only moves one way
Baby, out of all the things I've had to let go
(Ooh ooh ooh)
I miss you the most
Back row of the drive-in in my old coupe
Fumbling through the innocence of my youth
With our initials overlookin' the town
Back before they tore the water tower down
And I remember you and me
Drawin' hearts in the window steam
Holdin' on to seventeen
Those days ain't never comin' back
Swept away by the winds of change
Time only moves one way
Baby, out of all the things I've had to let go
(Ooh ooh ooh)
I miss you the most
Hey, I remember you and me
Drawin' hearts in the window steam
Holdin' on to seventeen
But those days ain't never comin' back
Swept away by the winds of change
Time only moves one way
Baby, out of all the things I've had to let go
(Ooh ooh ooh)
I miss you the most
I'm missin' you the most
My brother's ID and some cheap beer
Free bird blastin' on the radio
Mama didn't like it, but I let my hair grow
And I remember you and me
Drawin' hearts in the window steam
Holdin' on to seventeen
Those days ain't never comin' back
Swept away by the winds of change
Time only moves one way
Baby, out of all the things I've had to let go
(Ooh ooh ooh)
I miss you the most
Back row of the drive-in in my old coupe
Fumbling through the innocence of my youth
With our initials overlookin' the town
Back before they tore the water tower down
And I remember you and me
Drawin' hearts in the window steam
Holdin' on to seventeen
Those days ain't never comin' back
Swept away by the winds of change
Time only moves one way
Baby, out of all the things I've had to let go
(Ooh ooh ooh)
I miss you the most
Hey, I remember you and me
Drawin' hearts in the window steam
Holdin' on to seventeen
But those days ain't never comin' back
Swept away by the winds of change
Time only moves one way
Baby, out of all the things I've had to let go
(Ooh ooh ooh)
I miss you the most
I'm missin' you the most
Lyrics submitted by KungFuChica
I Miss You the Most Lyrics as written by Monty Russ Criswell Lee Thomas Miller
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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