"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.
Everyone’s against you
Burning up but standing still
If you’re so defenseless
Another way that you can kill
There’s a lot to do with nothing
And there’s nothing here
You can ask your questions but
You might not like my answers
I forgot what you said
You are not worth waiting for
I feel so guilty
There’s a lot I haven’t figured out
You figure me. I figure you right back.
Behind your fiberglass is a furnace door
With the hinges broken off
Between your shoulder blade
Is the next best thing.
Is the next best place for me to
Drop my match into and scream
‘You’re worthless to me.’
You know you’re worthless to me.
You know you’re worthless to me.
Stabbed in the throat with a plastic straw.
You are you are you are
Stabbed in the throat with a plastic straw.
You are you are you are
Burning up but standing still
If you’re so defenseless
Another way that you can kill
There’s a lot to do with nothing
And there’s nothing here
You can ask your questions but
You might not like my answers
I forgot what you said
You are not worth waiting for
I feel so guilty
There’s a lot I haven’t figured out
You figure me. I figure you right back.
Behind your fiberglass is a furnace door
With the hinges broken off
Between your shoulder blade
Is the next best thing.
Is the next best place for me to
Drop my match into and scream
‘You’re worthless to me.’
You know you’re worthless to me.
You know you’re worthless to me.
Stabbed in the throat with a plastic straw.
You are you are you are
Stabbed in the throat with a plastic straw.
You are you are you are
Lyrics submitted by cellordore, edited by vaipan
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