"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.
I was walking in our town
I was walking through the store
I saw a pretty girl
She held open the door
I said 'I like you'
She said that she liked me
And we could be friends
In our special stupid way
I went to pacific cafe
There she was again
So I said 'hey
We should go swimming in capital lake'
We had a lot of fun but then it got real late
So I walked her home
And had dinner with her family
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why I had dinner with her family
We went to her friend's house
To have a cup of tea
She said that it was true
She was in love with me
I knew right then we'd have to be alone
'Cause no one in this whole world could ever understand
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why I had dinner with her family
I was walking through the store
I saw a pretty girl
She held open the door
I said 'I like you'
She said that she liked me
And we could be friends
In our special stupid way
I went to pacific cafe
There she was again
So I said 'hey
We should go swimming in capital lake'
We had a lot of fun but then it got real late
So I walked her home
And had dinner with her family
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why I had dinner with her family
We went to her friend's house
To have a cup of tea
She said that it was true
She was in love with me
I knew right then we'd have to be alone
'Cause no one in this whole world could ever understand
That's why we're running away
That's why we're running away
That's why I had dinner with her family
Lyrics submitted by pavementsucks, edited by PairOFish, mattlove1
Our Secret Lyrics as written by Calvin Douglas Johnson Bret Lunsford
Lyrics © SC PUBLISHING DBA SECRETLY CANADIAN PUB., BMG Rights Management
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this was the only beat happening song I liked but they're irresistible once you've opened up to this one. it has it all: calvin's incredible voice at probably its most intense; incredibly strange lyrics (I mean, how IS that why they're running away? the mind reels at the possibilities); the caravan instrumentation and lo-fi drums&jangle. It's like the überbeathappeningsong.
I thought it was "special secret way" in the first verse.