"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 think im coming around the bend again
I think im coming around i cant remember when
And all this running around is gonna end
I feel it coming around i cant go back again
Help Me
Before it starts
sing me songs you've never heard
its nothing when nothings all you got
i keep running away im running away from me
I hear them running around in my head again
such a defining sound to hear the steps again
my devences were down they let themselves in
its taken all that i had to get them out again
Help me
before it starts
sing me songs you've never heard
its nothing when nothings all you've got
i keep running away im running away from me
Please its in your head
it isn't real you cannot handle this
seems enough to know just what its like
What I've become what ive become
I think were coming around the bend again
i think were coming around i cant remember when
i let the medicine man become my friend
i know there coming around to take me back again
Help me
before it starts
sing me songs ive never heard
its nothing cuz nothings all i got
i keep running away im running away from me
i keep running away im running away from me
i keep running away im running away from me
I think im coming around i cant remember when
And all this running around is gonna end
I feel it coming around i cant go back again
Help Me
Before it starts
sing me songs you've never heard
its nothing when nothings all you got
i keep running away im running away from me
I hear them running around in my head again
such a defining sound to hear the steps again
my devences were down they let themselves in
its taken all that i had to get them out again
Help me
before it starts
sing me songs you've never heard
its nothing when nothings all you've got
i keep running away im running away from me
Please its in your head
it isn't real you cannot handle this
seems enough to know just what its like
What I've become what ive become
I think were coming around the bend again
i think were coming around i cant remember when
i let the medicine man become my friend
i know there coming around to take me back again
Help me
before it starts
sing me songs ive never heard
its nothing cuz nothings all i got
i keep running away im running away from me
i keep running away im running away from me
i keep running away im running away from me
Lyrics submitted by WafeMeMyFriend
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