"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.
it's getting cold, my hands are numb
and I cannot feel a thing
I'm growing callous to this place
the resolution strikes again
and I don't know what to say
but I've got to move on
I'm beginning to see
that everything I want is fake
and what I have is real
I swore I would look no further than this
but somehow I found a way
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
Im trying so hard to succeed
but all i can do is breathe
my emotion runs dry
no time to waste, no minute more
its time for this business to end
because I've got to move on
I'm beginning to see
that everything I want is fake
and what I have is real
I swore I would look no further than this
but somehow I found a way
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
and dont look down (don't look down)
and don't look back
we're leaving our shadows
and we're leaving the past
dont look down, dont look back
we'll rise again, we'll rise again
dont look down, dont look back
we'll rise again, we'll rise again
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
dont look down, dont look back
the only way I look is up
and I cannot feel a thing
I'm growing callous to this place
the resolution strikes again
and I don't know what to say
but I've got to move on
I'm beginning to see
that everything I want is fake
and what I have is real
I swore I would look no further than this
but somehow I found a way
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
Im trying so hard to succeed
but all i can do is breathe
my emotion runs dry
no time to waste, no minute more
its time for this business to end
because I've got to move on
I'm beginning to see
that everything I want is fake
and what I have is real
I swore I would look no further than this
but somehow I found a way
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
and dont look down (don't look down)
and don't look back
we're leaving our shadows
and we're leaving the past
dont look down, dont look back
we'll rise again, we'll rise again
dont look down, dont look back
we'll rise again, we'll rise again
waiting for this season to end
this trial burns me from within
we could be so much more than we are
but where do we look before we fall?
dont look down, dont look back
the only way I look is up
Lyrics submitted by shinkster
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