"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.
Run away to no where
Too chicken shit to face
I'm gunna go there
The fear I cannot taste
You think you got me
You're gunna tumble down
Keep coming for me
I'll drop you on the ground
I fuck with no one
Until you get in my face
Break you now
Mercy, I cannot allow
Through your face, My fist will plow
Watching as your blood pours down
Lets do this now x2
You're gunna feel how
I really am with you
You're going no where
Don't really know what to do
It's going to go on
Until you run away
You can't control me
You best do in my way
I fuck with no one
Until you get in my face
Break you now
Mercy, I cannot allow
Through your face, My fist will plow
Watching as your blood pours down
Lets do this now x2
Don't you know that
You can touch me
Don't you know that
You can bring me down
Oh my life would be so easy now
If you haven't stepped across that line
LINE! LINE!
Break you now
Mercy, I cannot allow
Through your face, My fist will plow
Watching as your blood pours down
Lets do this now x5
Too chicken shit to face
I'm gunna go there
The fear I cannot taste
You think you got me
You're gunna tumble down
Keep coming for me
I'll drop you on the ground
I fuck with no one
Until you get in my face
Break you now
Mercy, I cannot allow
Through your face, My fist will plow
Watching as your blood pours down
Lets do this now x2
You're gunna feel how
I really am with you
You're going no where
Don't really know what to do
It's going to go on
Until you run away
You can't control me
You best do in my way
I fuck with no one
Until you get in my face
Break you now
Mercy, I cannot allow
Through your face, My fist will plow
Watching as your blood pours down
Lets do this now x2
Don't you know that
You can touch me
Don't you know that
You can bring me down
Oh my life would be so easy now
If you haven't stepped across that line
LINE! LINE!
Break you now
Mercy, I cannot allow
Through your face, My fist will plow
Watching as your blood pours down
Lets do this now x5
Lyrics submitted by Aerion
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