"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.
I rewrite my life beneath the moonlight
Please hold me now till my breath runs out
There are many things that I am not
But there's one thing that I can't deny
A double bluff you fed me lines
The shortest cut you're searching for
A mesh of tones surround your eyes
I wish I knew how it came to this
I always said you could rely on me
Now it seems that I was wrong
I want you to stay
I want you to stay with me
'cause nothing works round here
Where cranes collect the sky
I long for the neon signs of night
'cause nothing works round here
You know the way I feel
Can you remember what we had?
Why do you think I over take?
I speak to you and you say no
A camera runs just to collect
I wish I knew how it came to this
The lies we tell are bound on film
And you start to push your lips to mine
Outside my room you closed your eyes
And in the end it came to this
I always said you could rely on me
Now it seems that I was wrong
I want you to stay
I want you to stay with me
'cause nothing works round here
Where cranes collect the sky
I think of your face at night
'cause nothing works round here
You know the way I feel
Can you remember what we had?
As time gets more compressed
You're always my reminder
A lifetime disappears
Can you remember what we had?
As time gets more compressed
You're always my reminder
You're always my reminder
You know the way I feel
You know the way I feel
Please hold me now till my breath runs out
There are many things that I am not
But there's one thing that I can't deny
A double bluff you fed me lines
The shortest cut you're searching for
A mesh of tones surround your eyes
I wish I knew how it came to this
I always said you could rely on me
Now it seems that I was wrong
I want you to stay
I want you to stay with me
'cause nothing works round here
Where cranes collect the sky
I long for the neon signs of night
'cause nothing works round here
You know the way I feel
Can you remember what we had?
Why do you think I over take?
I speak to you and you say no
A camera runs just to collect
I wish I knew how it came to this
The lies we tell are bound on film
And you start to push your lips to mine
Outside my room you closed your eyes
And in the end it came to this
I always said you could rely on me
Now it seems that I was wrong
I want you to stay
I want you to stay with me
'cause nothing works round here
Where cranes collect the sky
I think of your face at night
'cause nothing works round here
You know the way I feel
Can you remember what we had?
As time gets more compressed
You're always my reminder
A lifetime disappears
Can you remember what we had?
As time gets more compressed
You're always my reminder
You're always my reminder
You know the way I feel
You know the way I feel
Lyrics submitted by dulcitablue
I Want You To Stay Lyrics as written by Rudy Amado Perez
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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