"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.
You always said I don't know you
I'm not like you
But you don't know what I'm about
I asked you out you jerked me about
And I reacted how I know how
(But now) what about the time I talked to you
(To find out) where we stood and where we stood was
(Drunk and) barefoot on the sidewalk of the 7-11 oh I was in heaven
(Chorus) I don't know you
And I'm not love by you
And I don't have a void inside me
Shaped like you forged by my hopeless need
So you've come around to town to work where I play
Praying for the day that you'd come around to where I was with you with
My head on my hands, and you in my heart
(But now) what about the time I talked to you
(To find out) where we stood and where we stood was
(Drunk and) barefoot on the sidewalk of the 7-11 oh I was in heaven
(Chorus) I don't know you
And I'm not love by you
And I don't have a void inside me
Shaped like you forged by my hopeless need
(Give me the chance) to be a man not just a friend who understands
if I've got the brains (and the balls) to write this song from john Denver (country road)
I deserve a shot (and you could tell me) to go to hell and I would go
And write a song there from where I was, just like this one, written well
and I would call it the song from hell
(Chorus) I don't know you
And I'm not love by you
And I don't have a void inside me
Shaped like you forged by my hopeless need
(Chorus) I don't know you
And I'm not love by you
And I don't have a void inside me
Shaped like you forged by my hopeless need
I'm not like you
But you don't know what I'm about
I asked you out you jerked me about
And I reacted how I know how
(But now) what about the time I talked to you
(To find out) where we stood and where we stood was
(Drunk and) barefoot on the sidewalk of the 7-11 oh I was in heaven
(Chorus) I don't know you
And I'm not love by you
And I don't have a void inside me
Shaped like you forged by my hopeless need
So you've come around to town to work where I play
Praying for the day that you'd come around to where I was with you with
My head on my hands, and you in my heart
(But now) what about the time I talked to you
(To find out) where we stood and where we stood was
(Drunk and) barefoot on the sidewalk of the 7-11 oh I was in heaven
(Chorus) I don't know you
And I'm not love by you
And I don't have a void inside me
Shaped like you forged by my hopeless need
(Give me the chance) to be a man not just a friend who understands
if I've got the brains (and the balls) to write this song from john Denver (country road)
I deserve a shot (and you could tell me) to go to hell and I would go
And write a song there from where I was, just like this one, written well
and I would call it the song from hell
(Chorus) I don't know you
And I'm not love by you
And I don't have a void inside me
Shaped like you forged by my hopeless need
(Chorus) I don't know you
And I'm not love by you
And I don't have a void inside me
Shaped like you forged by my hopeless need
Lyrics submitted by afallingstar26
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