"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.
There will never be
Another one like you
There will never be
Another one who can
Do the things you do, oh
Will you give another chance?
Will you try, little try?
Please stop and you remember
We were together
Anyway
All right
And if you have a certain evenin'
You could lend to me
I'd give it all right back to you
A how it has to be with you
I know your moves
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
Oh will you stop and think and wonder?
Just what you'll see
Out on the train yard
Nursin' penitentiary
It's gone
I cry
Out long
Go head, brother
Did you stop it to consider?
How it will feel
Cold, grinded grizzly bear jaws
Hot on your heels
Do you often stop and whisper?
It's Saturday's shore
The whole world's a savior
Who could ever, ever, ever
Ever, ever, ever
Ask for more?
Do you remember?
Will you stop?
Will you stop?
The pain
And there will never be another one like you
There will never be another one who can
Do the things you do, oh
Will you give another chance?
Will you try, little try?
Please stop and you remember
We were together
Anyway
All right
How you must've think and wondered
How I must feel
Out on the meadows
While you run the field
I'm alone
For you
And I cry
The sweat, look at it
Optical promise
You'll be dead and in hell
Before I'm born
Sure thing
Bridesmaid
The only solution, isn't it amazing?
Another one like you
There will never be
Another one who can
Do the things you do, oh
Will you give another chance?
Will you try, little try?
Please stop and you remember
We were together
Anyway
All right
And if you have a certain evenin'
You could lend to me
I'd give it all right back to you
A how it has to be with you
I know your moves
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
And your mind
Oh will you stop and think and wonder?
Just what you'll see
Out on the train yard
Nursin' penitentiary
It's gone
I cry
Out long
Go head, brother
Did you stop it to consider?
How it will feel
Cold, grinded grizzly bear jaws
Hot on your heels
Do you often stop and whisper?
It's Saturday's shore
The whole world's a savior
Who could ever, ever, ever
Ever, ever, ever
Ask for more?
Do you remember?
Will you stop?
Will you stop?
The pain
And there will never be another one like you
There will never be another one who can
Do the things you do, oh
Will you give another chance?
Will you try, little try?
Please stop and you remember
We were together
Anyway
All right
How you must've think and wondered
How I must feel
Out on the meadows
While you run the field
I'm alone
For you
And I cry
The sweat, look at it
Optical promise
You'll be dead and in hell
Before I'm born
Sure thing
Bridesmaid
The only solution, isn't it amazing?
Lyrics submitted by yuri_sucupira, edited by by831697, el10931956
Shaman's Blues Lyrics as written by John Paul Densmore Jim Morrison
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Ed Sheeran
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