"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.
Drive away
Just get on the interstate
And slip through this closing gate
Pull into this cheap hotel
A call just to wish you well
You said, "Don't let love break you down"
Well, just show me how
And let me never be broken
Tomorrow a new point of view
These white lights will bend to make blue
Now this can't all look new to you
Are you still living there?
Walking the streets with your hollow stare?
You say there's loneliness everywhere
So we have nothing to lose
The music plays all day long
A sorrow that's beautiful
And lovers seem mystical
Tomorrow a new point of view
These white lights will bend to make blue
Now this can't all look new to you
Tomorrow a new point of view
These white lights will bend to make blue
Now this can't all look new to you
Just get on the interstate
And slip through this closing gate
Pull into this cheap hotel
A call just to wish you well
You said, "Don't let love break you down"
Well, just show me how
And let me never be broken
Tomorrow a new point of view
These white lights will bend to make blue
Now this can't all look new to you
Are you still living there?
Walking the streets with your hollow stare?
You say there's loneliness everywhere
So we have nothing to lose
The music plays all day long
A sorrow that's beautiful
And lovers seem mystical
Tomorrow a new point of view
These white lights will bend to make blue
Now this can't all look new to you
Tomorrow a new point of view
These white lights will bend to make blue
Now this can't all look new to you
Lyrics submitted by armageddon_bride
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Its sang like a breeze and makes me feel like i'm on the journey as well, in a car with headlights all around.
This song is incredibly beautiful. It's the most emotion I've felt during a song in awhile.
ahhh yes, agreed with the comment above. it's dreamy.
It definitely feels like I´m in that car, trying to escape all thoughts around my lost love.
gosh, favorite
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anyone know the faint lyrics in the background? i hear "i know it's over," but it's so damn hard to tell! some future listen, a hundred from now probably, i'll sure i'll hear it clear as day.
okay, i finally figured it out. "i'm only sorry" is the line orenda fink (i believe) is singing in the background. also, some of these lyrics are a tad incorrect:
Drive away, just get on the interstate And slip through this closing gate Pull into this cheap hotel A call just to wish you well
You said, "Don't let love break you down" Well, just show me how And let me never be broken
Tomorrow a new point of view These white lights will bend to make blue Now this can't all look new to you
Are you still living there Walking the streets with your hollow stare You say there's loneliness everywhere So we have nothing to lose (I'm only sorry)*
The music plays all day long And sorrow looks beautiful And lovers seem mystical (I'm only sorry)*
Tomorrow a new point of view These bright** lights will bend to make blue Now this can't all look new to you
Tomorrow a new point of view These white lights will bend to make blue Now this can't all look new to you
*After dozens of listens, I'm pretty positive this is what can be heard in the background. ** This line is the only part of the song where "white" is replaced with "bright"