"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.
Records on the floor.
I'm giving back what's yours
Remember us last weekend
Dancing to the psychedelic furs.
I tried to tell myself
That we could be alright.
Now it's me and my
Cigarettes and alcohol tonight.
So screen all the phone calls
And put the chain on the front door.
And if you see her
Tell her I don't live here anymore.
Driving neighbors crazy
With after hour fights
Everything makes more sense
Thank God that we broke it off that night.
Holding on to you
Is like playing with broken glass.
I'm fighting off the memories
And all the living in the past.
The post cards in the drawer
The pictures on the wall.
The sound of little footsteps
That echo through the hall.
Sound like a heart beat.
It's like a heart beat
It's like a heart break beat
And it's beating out of me.
So screen all the phone calls
And put the chain on the front door.
And if you see her
Tell her I don.t live here anymore.
So pull all the shades down
And turn off the radio.
And if you see her
Tell her I moved down to Mexico.
I'm giving back what's yours
Remember us last weekend
Dancing to the psychedelic furs.
I tried to tell myself
That we could be alright.
Now it's me and my
Cigarettes and alcohol tonight.
So screen all the phone calls
And put the chain on the front door.
And if you see her
Tell her I don't live here anymore.
Driving neighbors crazy
With after hour fights
Everything makes more sense
Thank God that we broke it off that night.
Holding on to you
Is like playing with broken glass.
I'm fighting off the memories
And all the living in the past.
The post cards in the drawer
The pictures on the wall.
The sound of little footsteps
That echo through the hall.
Sound like a heart beat.
It's like a heart beat
It's like a heart break beat
And it's beating out of me.
So screen all the phone calls
And put the chain on the front door.
And if you see her
Tell her I don.t live here anymore.
So pull all the shades down
And turn off the radio.
And if you see her
Tell her I moved down to Mexico.
Lyrics submitted by sendthestars
Mexico Lyrics as written by Richard Ochoa
Lyrics © HOUSE OF BRYANT PUBLICATIONS
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'it's like a heart break beat and it's beating out of me'
my favorite line. ever. <3
'holding on to you is like playing with broken glass' its suits my situationn.. damn it, ive should move on.
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