"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.
Yeah
Here she comes again
She's feeling like she's already won
I believe it's gonna end again, all for naught
My philosophy is things are just as wrong as they seem
I believe it's gonna end this way, atrocity
Do you believe in love
Like I believe in pain
Nobody died for you, somebody pray for me
When you see me cut me down
And I will force it underground
There's no-one left to hurt but me
And it's because of me, right?
There he walks away
He's feeling like he's having them on
I believe he's gonna bend again
And all for naught
My philosophy is things are just as wrong as they seem
Gotta get you off, off of me, it's such an oddity
Do you believe in love
Like I believe in pain
Nobody died for you, somebody pray for me
When you see me cut me down
And I will force it underground
There's no-one left to hurt but me
And it's because of me, right?
I want to see you suffer
Suffer
When you see me cut me down
And I will force it underground
There's no-one left to hurt but me
And it's because of me, right?
When you see me cut me down
And when you see me cut me down
And when you see me cut me down
And it's because of me
Suffer
Here she comes again
She's feeling like she's already won
I believe it's gonna end again, all for naught
My philosophy is things are just as wrong as they seem
I believe it's gonna end this way, atrocity
Do you believe in love
Like I believe in pain
Nobody died for you, somebody pray for me
When you see me cut me down
And I will force it underground
There's no-one left to hurt but me
And it's because of me, right?
There he walks away
He's feeling like he's having them on
I believe he's gonna bend again
And all for naught
My philosophy is things are just as wrong as they seem
Gotta get you off, off of me, it's such an oddity
Do you believe in love
Like I believe in pain
Nobody died for you, somebody pray for me
When you see me cut me down
And I will force it underground
There's no-one left to hurt but me
And it's because of me, right?
I want to see you suffer
Suffer
When you see me cut me down
And I will force it underground
There's no-one left to hurt but me
And it's because of me, right?
When you see me cut me down
And when you see me cut me down
And when you see me cut me down
And it's because of me
Suffer
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Because of Me Lyrics as written by Dale Stewart Shaun Welgemoed
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Ok, no, it is SHE in the second verse. That line, "Nobody died for you, somebody pray for me" could be taken a couple different ways. He could be saying that he doesn't believe that anbody died for us, IE. Jesus, or whoever you believe in. But even though he doesn't believe that, he still wants some one to pray for him, because maybe he's wrong, and someone did die for us. The song has plenty of different meanings that could be gained from it. I like the one about war, because that's usually what happens. I know from personal experience with someone in my family. They go to war, and then they're sent home, and they believe that noone could possibly understand what they've seen and been through, so they push everyone away. Then they regret it, and wish that they hadn't, because they realize just how much they need their loved ones to be there for them. It also sounds like a relationship song. In the first two verses, he's watching the man and woman struggle, and in the third verse, he's struggling because of them. It could be like a parent child relationship. You usually feel pulled between two opposite forces when your parents divorce, here again, I speak from personal experience. So, he's trying to place the blame where it belongs, on his parents, or these two fictional characters, but in the third verse, he blames himself. And throughout the whole song, you can see it coming from a mile away, because he keeps saying, '"It's because of me, right!!???"' And at the very end, he makes it plainly clear that he wants them to suffer the way they've made him suffer.