"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.
bring back those good ol' days
nothing feels right
nothing ever goes my way
I threw my future away
now I walk alone
out here in the cold
wandering astray
where is my future?
I'm gonna need a home
you'd expect the same
now wouldn't you?
wouldn't you?
your journey back to birth is haunting you
haunting you
your departure from the earth is haunting you
haunting you
only those who accept
will find that acceptance in return
we have been trimmed down like hedges
and told just to sit
and wilt
and spit at each other from a distance
there is constant resistance from you
I'm gonna need a home
you'd expect the same
now wouldn't you?
wouldn't you?
it's been 10 years strong
that's much too long
it's time to do something good for myself
it's time to do something good for my health
I've wasted all of this time
nothing feels right
nothing ever goes my way
I threw my future away
now I walk alone
out here in the cold
wandering astray
where is my future?
I'm gonna need a home
you'd expect the same
now wouldn't you?
wouldn't you?
your journey back to birth is haunting you
haunting you
your departure from the earth is haunting you
haunting you
only those who accept
will find that acceptance in return
we have been trimmed down like hedges
and told just to sit
and wilt
and spit at each other from a distance
there is constant resistance from you
I'm gonna need a home
you'd expect the same
now wouldn't you?
wouldn't you?
it's been 10 years strong
that's much too long
it's time to do something good for myself
it's time to do something good for my health
I've wasted all of this time
Lyrics submitted by christsizeshoes, edited by ChikOsMaN
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