"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.
Tell Me This Night Is Over lyrics
Why should it be so bad to be bad,
When it´s so hard to be anything at all?
And why does everyone seem to forget
What it´s like to be all alone
As soon as they
Have got someone, oh it´s no fun
It makes me want to vanish and die
Maybe I´ll throw all my clothes
Into a waterfall
And sit and spy whilenthey all cry
You get so silly when you´re lonely
And you think that you´re the only
Who´ll say:
I hope that someone´s gonna call
And tell me this night is over
'Cause I want to start living my life
Before I get much older
Maybe you all would consider it a joke
If I say that I hate myself
But now and then
When I look into the mirror
All I see is a big mistake
(And wouldn´t you)
Well, I just want to be fun
Just want to be the one
Who makes you smile
I just want to believe
That I could be something to someone
- Am I the only one around here,
Who´s not gonna live my life in fear?
I hope that someone´s gonna call
And tell me this night is over
'Cause I want to start living my life
Before I get much older
(- I don´t understand you!)
- And why would you?
(- Can you tell me
What is on my mind?)
- I don´t have words to say
How much I think I owe you,
- We ain´t gonna live our lives in fear...
Why should it be so bad to be bad,
When it´s so hard to be anything at all?
And why does everyone seem to forget
What it´s like to be all alone
As soon as they
Have got someone, oh it´s no fun
It makes me want to vanish and die
Maybe I´ll throw all my clothes
Into a waterfall
And sit and spy whilenthey all cry
You get so silly when you´re lonely
And you think that you´re the only
Who´ll say:
I hope that someone´s gonna call
And tell me this night is over
'Cause I want to start living my life
Before I get much older
Maybe you all would consider it a joke
If I say that I hate myself
But now and then
When I look into the mirror
All I see is a big mistake
(And wouldn´t you)
Well, I just want to be fun
Just want to be the one
Who makes you smile
I just want to believe
That I could be something to someone
- Am I the only one around here,
Who´s not gonna live my life in fear?
I hope that someone´s gonna call
And tell me this night is over
'Cause I want to start living my life
Before I get much older
(- I don´t understand you!)
- And why would you?
(- Can you tell me
What is on my mind?)
- I don´t have words to say
How much I think I owe you,
- We ain´t gonna live our lives in fear...
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