"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.
Please believe me that this is all I have to give, I gave you my last breath and you left me
with nothing.
A faded picture is the only thing that's left, but will you even mourn?
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Please believe me that this, this is my dying wish. I cannot block it out or learn how to forgive.
I've lost and I've bled for words you
never said. They're burying the dead, but will you even mourn?
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
'Cause you, you've lived your life
by bringing fire to douse a blaze.
As we walked through the mines, you left me alone to find my way on this, my dying day.
Please believe me that this is all I have to give, I gave you my last breath and you left me
with nothing.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
with nothing.
A faded picture is the only thing that's left, but will you even mourn?
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Please believe me that this, this is my dying wish. I cannot block it out or learn how to forgive.
I've lost and I've bled for words you
never said. They're burying the dead, but will you even mourn?
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
'Cause you, you've lived your life
by bringing fire to douse a blaze.
As we walked through the mines, you left me alone to find my way on this, my dying day.
Please believe me that this is all I have to give, I gave you my last breath and you left me
with nothing.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Tonight is the night that you fulfilled this doubt as you walked out.
Lyrics submitted by Messiah
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that's what it seems i love this song