"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.
Surrounded by four walls, they cave in on you
Spend some time with your weakness, but don't let it get the better of you
Watch you fade away
For just one more day
So sick and tired of seeing you, watching you fade
So sick and tired of seeing you, watching you fade
Addiction is yours, poison yourself all alone
Take control of your sickness, don't leave us here on our own
Watch you fade away
For just one more day
So sick and tired of seeing you, watching you fade away
So sick and tired of seeing you, wachhing you fade away
(Yo, yeah sweet, uh... ...which one was it?
Umm... yeah... seven maybe? ...sweet, OK bye)
Don't go, please don't go
I know, you're alone
Don't go, please don't go
Don't go, please don't go...
Won't sit back, relax, no more you make me sick
Watch you rot from the inside out, what is this shit
Don't tell you'll never last with this
Don't sit back relax, you poisonous cyst
Am I, calling ten, what the fuck is this
Did I make this choice, did I do this?
I used to laugh while you would spit
Now your laughter's a fit
Don't go, please don't go
Don't go, please don't go...
(Won't sit back, relax, no more you make me sick
Watch you rot from the inside out, what is this shit
Don't tell you'll never last with this
Don't sit back relax, you poisonous cyst
Am I, calling ten, what the fuck is this
Did I make this choice, did I do this?
I used to laugh while you would spit
Now your laughter's a fit)
Don't go, please don't go...
Spend some time with your weakness, but don't let it get the better of you
Watch you fade away
For just one more day
So sick and tired of seeing you, watching you fade
So sick and tired of seeing you, watching you fade
Addiction is yours, poison yourself all alone
Take control of your sickness, don't leave us here on our own
Watch you fade away
For just one more day
So sick and tired of seeing you, watching you fade away
So sick and tired of seeing you, wachhing you fade away
(Yo, yeah sweet, uh... ...which one was it?
Umm... yeah... seven maybe? ...sweet, OK bye)
Don't go, please don't go
I know, you're alone
Don't go, please don't go
Don't go, please don't go...
Won't sit back, relax, no more you make me sick
Watch you rot from the inside out, what is this shit
Don't tell you'll never last with this
Don't sit back relax, you poisonous cyst
Am I, calling ten, what the fuck is this
Did I make this choice, did I do this?
I used to laugh while you would spit
Now your laughter's a fit
Don't go, please don't go
Don't go, please don't go...
(Won't sit back, relax, no more you make me sick
Watch you rot from the inside out, what is this shit
Don't tell you'll never last with this
Don't sit back relax, you poisonous cyst
Am I, calling ten, what the fuck is this
Did I make this choice, did I do this?
I used to laugh while you would spit
Now your laughter's a fit)
Don't go, please don't go...
Lyrics submitted by azure_34
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Fading away....addiction....sickness. I'm guessing it's about drugs. The possibility of the person dying etc. Not too far off anyway. Damn good song.......One of my faves.
I believe this song is about a freind of Damians who had to battle with alcoholism.......
Its not "Don't tell you'll never last with this"
Its "Don't tell me you never asked for this"
Hell almost every blindspott song on here has wrong lyrics x_x Some "fans" you people are if you don't even know the words eh