"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.
You don't want to be
I don't want to see
Baby get your feet on the floor
Shut the door, count to four
There's ice (On your shoulders)
I don't want to fall face down in the flood
Of the tears from the years that we loved and we messed up
(Don't mess this up)
Let's get older
Remember the foggy window?
Remember lightning and wet clothes?
Remember the house we used to live in the cemetery?
The cemetery?
There's a shadow on the wall and it's nine feet tall
And our hearts won't sink cause it's obviously nothing at all
And in a roundabout way we can disappear towards the coast
The most I have to say isn't really that revealing at all
Everyone you forgot
Everything you could need
Everybody's gonna make it to the cemetery
There's a Fab, there's a Yick
There's a Jenny, there's a Karen
There's a Paul, there's a Jack
There's a Denny
Everyone you forgot
Everything that you need
Everybody's gonna make it to the cemetery
There's a Ross, there's a Neil
There's a Lenny, there's an Aaron
There's a Saul, there's a Chip
There's a Benny
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Do you remember?
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Do you remember?
Remember the foggy window?
Remember lightning and wet clothes?
Remember the house we used to live in the cemetery?
The cemetery?
There's a shadow on the wall and it's nine feet tall
And our hearts won't sink cause it's obviously nothing at all
And in a roundabout way we can disappear towards the coast
The most I have to say isn't really that revealing at all
I don't want to see
Baby get your feet on the floor
Shut the door, count to four
There's ice (On your shoulders)
I don't want to fall face down in the flood
Of the tears from the years that we loved and we messed up
(Don't mess this up)
Let's get older
Remember the foggy window?
Remember lightning and wet clothes?
Remember the house we used to live in the cemetery?
The cemetery?
There's a shadow on the wall and it's nine feet tall
And our hearts won't sink cause it's obviously nothing at all
And in a roundabout way we can disappear towards the coast
The most I have to say isn't really that revealing at all
Everyone you forgot
Everything you could need
Everybody's gonna make it to the cemetery
There's a Fab, there's a Yick
There's a Jenny, there's a Karen
There's a Paul, there's a Jack
There's a Denny
Everyone you forgot
Everything that you need
Everybody's gonna make it to the cemetery
There's a Ross, there's a Neil
There's a Lenny, there's an Aaron
There's a Saul, there's a Chip
There's a Benny
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Do you remember?
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Oh woah woah woah, way oh, way oh
Do you remember?
Remember the foggy window?
Remember lightning and wet clothes?
Remember the house we used to live in the cemetery?
The cemetery?
There's a shadow on the wall and it's nine feet tall
And our hearts won't sink cause it's obviously nothing at all
And in a roundabout way we can disappear towards the coast
The most I have to say isn't really that revealing at all
Lyrics submitted by satori-birdy
The Cemetery Lyrics as written by Bird
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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