"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.
Day by day
I run away
From you
You hurt me in every possible way
But i didnt know how to say
What could i tell you
So now im running away
Day by day I waste my time
You hurt me so bad
Cant get you out of my mind
I still love you cant you see
I still love you
Do you love me?
I run away
From you
You hurt me in every possible way
But i didnt know how to say
What could i tell you
So now im running away
Day by day I waste my time
You hurt me so bad
Cant get you out of my mind
I still love you cant you see
I still love you
Do you love me?
Lyrics submitted by diepopdie044
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Avril Lavigne sucks and she needs stop acting like she's something she's not. By the way... Her Hottopic clothes are just fabulous... Fruit...
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how the hell do you report somebody for abusing the system and putting up thier own lyrics and saying all that shit about the artist? that's not cool, and you're being very immature by doing this. do you not realize that this website is a great priveledge? don't make everyone else hate you by doing this shit. it's not cool.
go to the front page and on the bottom right it says report abuse . i already reported some poeple from here . keep reporting them . the admins need to know and ban the ones who are getting out of hand . tell everyone about the reposrt abuse button .songmeanings rock and make sure these assholes dont mess it up for us who like this site .
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you people are so fucking insecure. REPORT ABUSE. oh no someone said fuck let's report him. Songmeanings is a site used for posting OPINIONS about a song. opinions as in negative and positive. Who gives a damn about what someone says about an artist. What i say about your "music" you would probably say about mine. You can't stop people from stating there opinions about people or an artist. That's taking away freedom of speech. The report abuse option is meant for people being harrassed by someone else.
Um, this isn't an Avril song, at least I think. It's not even a song for how short it is!
WTF! This is not one of Avril's songs. Especially for someone with a username such as "diepopdie044". I hope you're real proud of yourself.
Trippy_Mushroom, all I'm saying is that someone posted this song as Avril's and it is obviously not her song! That's why I wanted to report it.
Yeah, this is SOOO not Avril's song. It's not even long enough to BE a song!
this is more like a love poem that someone submitted to be funny. i have read the lyrics just now and just by reading it i can tell this is not her song.whoever submitted this song, are you happy now?