"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!
Now it's falling around you
pickup the pieces you know they wont fit
tear drops are falling down like rain
ocean water around you
I see it coming round again, I know
now I realize that I'll be fine
and I'll forget you
Will you ever learn
that there's more to life than helping yourself?
will I reach out my hand
and stop you from falling
which starts this over again
This time there's no where left to talk
as I run down the boardwalk
trying hard to forget your face I know
wish I could finally find the strength
to open up your letters
I think, I'll throw them all away instead
Now I realize, that I'll be fine
and I'll forget you
Will you ever learn
that there's more to life than helping yourself?
will I reach out my hand
and stop you from falling
which starts this over again
(part 1)
Don't know if I can bring myself
to open up your letters
maybe I'll throw them all away
forget you all together
know now I'm waiting back at home
know now I'm waiting back at home
and I am starving for affection
affection.......
(part 2)
I see you
I know you
I can see right through you
I can see right through you
When will I finally find the strength
to open up your letters?
I think I'll throw them all away
forget you all together
when will I find my way back home
find my way on back home my way back home....
and now its falling around you
pick up the pieces you know they wont fit.
Now it's falling around you
pickup the pieces you know they wont fit
tear drops are falling down like rain
ocean water around you
I see it coming round again, I know
now I realize that I'll be fine
and I'll forget you
Will you ever learn
that there's more to life than helping yourself?
will I reach out my hand
and stop you from falling
which starts this over again
This time there's no where left to talk
as I run down the boardwalk
trying hard to forget your face I know
wish I could finally find the strength
to open up your letters
I think, I'll throw them all away instead
Now I realize, that I'll be fine
and I'll forget you
Will you ever learn
that there's more to life than helping yourself?
will I reach out my hand
and stop you from falling
which starts this over again
(part 1)
Don't know if I can bring myself
to open up your letters
maybe I'll throw them all away
forget you all together
know now I'm waiting back at home
know now I'm waiting back at home
and I am starving for affection
affection.......
(part 2)
I see you
I know you
I can see right through you
I can see right through you
When will I finally find the strength
to open up your letters?
I think I'll throw them all away
forget you all together
when will I find my way back home
find my way on back home my way back home....
and now its falling around you
pick up the pieces you know they wont fit.
Lyrics submitted by germantownrd
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