"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.
She swore out the lights when she said that she was
Only in it for the rain
She made of her bed a naive
Nativity
Just in case it became - just in case
Here's
The 1st of many songs you wanted me to write
Just
For you I hope to god you like it
It's as pretty as it
Is cruel
It's as pretty as it is cruel
She swore out the
Lights when she dammed herself to sleep
Her thirteenth
Finger my whiskey drink
And she wept at the scene as
The ambulance drove off
Come circumference, come
Circumstance
Here's the 1st of many songs you wanted
Me to write
Just for you I hope to god you like it
And it may seem pretty cruel but mercy is not my name
And our kids I hope to god you counted them
You're as pretty as you are cruel
You're as pretty as you are cruel
You're as pretty as you are cruel
Only in it for the rain
She made of her bed a naive
Nativity
Just in case it became - just in case
Here's
The 1st of many songs you wanted me to write
Just
For you I hope to god you like it
It's as pretty as it
Is cruel
It's as pretty as it is cruel
She swore out the
Lights when she dammed herself to sleep
Her thirteenth
Finger my whiskey drink
And she wept at the scene as
The ambulance drove off
Come circumference, come
Circumstance
Here's the 1st of many songs you wanted
Me to write
Just for you I hope to god you like it
And it may seem pretty cruel but mercy is not my name
And our kids I hope to god you counted them
You're as pretty as you are cruel
You're as pretty as you are cruel
You're as pretty as you are cruel
Lyrics submitted by SameOldStory
She Was Only in It for the Rain Lyrics as written by Rocky Votolato
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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