"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.
Oh why can't I be what you need
A new improved version of me
But I'm nothing so good
No I'm nothing
Just bones, a lonely ghost burning down songs
Of violence of love and of sorrow
I beg for just one more tomorrow
Where you hold me down fold me in
Deep deep deep in the heart of your sins
I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me, you don't
Here I'm in between darkness and light
Bleached and blinded by these nights
Where I'm tossing and tortured til dawn
By you, visions of you then you're gone
The shock lifts the red from my face
When I hear someone's taking my place
How could love be so thoughtless, so cruel
When all, all that I did was for you
I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me you don't
I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me you don't
I break in two over you
I break in two over you, over you
I break in two
I would break in two for you
Now you see me
Now you don't
Now you need me
Now you don't
A new improved version of me
But I'm nothing so good
No I'm nothing
Just bones, a lonely ghost burning down songs
Of violence of love and of sorrow
I beg for just one more tomorrow
Where you hold me down fold me in
Deep deep deep in the heart of your sins
I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me, you don't
Here I'm in between darkness and light
Bleached and blinded by these nights
Where I'm tossing and tortured til dawn
By you, visions of you then you're gone
The shock lifts the red from my face
When I hear someone's taking my place
How could love be so thoughtless, so cruel
When all, all that I did was for you
I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me you don't
I break in two over you
I break in two
And each piece of me dies
And only you can give the breath of life
But you don't see me you don't
I break in two over you
I break in two over you, over you
I break in two
I would break in two for you
Now you see me
Now you don't
Now you need me
Now you don't
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Autumns Monologue Lyrics as written by Francis Mark Benjamin Perri
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