"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.
If I can't remember the words
Could you be my tongue for these few seconds
And spit them out for me
See I've crossed the line
And I've done what I told myself I'd never
We've become everything that we once hated
Feeling special actually listening to my conscience
When it confronts me
I told myself I wouldn't waste my time holding my breath
For what may potentially be a lost cause
Leave me stranded branded stupid
And all to often a sucker for the teenage delusion
Called true love
But you changed me
You are the risk that I'm taking
I'll stand beside the rest of our lives
And put my trust in loves
But I can't do this all alone
I can't make you believe me when I say
You're all I ever need
You're the reason I believe
That everything in my life has
Brought me to this point for a reason
What were the last words that you said to me
Stuck hanging off your lips as I leave you
Talking yourself blue in the face again
This loss for words can't get me out of what its got me in
Choking on the right lines picking up the wrong signs
I understand that promises
("Never speak of this again")
Mean nothing if the words have no meaning
(I give in)
But haven't we already grown used to waiting?
(A promise is only words)
And I can wait as long as it takes
To make you see I mean it
I'm so bad at goodbyes
That's why I never want to leave you're side again
So until the next time that I see you I've got to
Got to keep on breathing
Got to keep on breathing
To make you see
(Kids leave her alone she needs this)
To make you see I mean it
(Just leave her alone she needs this)
Could you be my tongue for these few seconds
And spit them out for me
See I've crossed the line
And I've done what I told myself I'd never
We've become everything that we once hated
Feeling special actually listening to my conscience
When it confronts me
I told myself I wouldn't waste my time holding my breath
For what may potentially be a lost cause
Leave me stranded branded stupid
And all to often a sucker for the teenage delusion
Called true love
But you changed me
You are the risk that I'm taking
I'll stand beside the rest of our lives
And put my trust in loves
But I can't do this all alone
I can't make you believe me when I say
You're all I ever need
You're the reason I believe
That everything in my life has
Brought me to this point for a reason
What were the last words that you said to me
Stuck hanging off your lips as I leave you
Talking yourself blue in the face again
This loss for words can't get me out of what its got me in
Choking on the right lines picking up the wrong signs
I understand that promises
("Never speak of this again")
Mean nothing if the words have no meaning
(I give in)
But haven't we already grown used to waiting?
(A promise is only words)
And I can wait as long as it takes
To make you see I mean it
I'm so bad at goodbyes
That's why I never want to leave you're side again
So until the next time that I see you I've got to
Got to keep on breathing
Got to keep on breathing
To make you see
(Kids leave her alone she needs this)
To make you see I mean it
(Just leave her alone she needs this)
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