"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.
That look was priceless
Don't let me get carried away
I've seen it before
And it still suites you the say
You catch on quick (you catch on quick)
As the cynics stop before
They give the same review (you catch on quick)
Oh that this is where, where the party is
Are you comin' home? (are you comin' home?)
Are you comin' home? (are you comin' home?)
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
You You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands
The abortion that you had left you
Clinically dead and made it All that much easier to lie
But its nothing that I'm proud of (no its nothing that I'm proud of)
Making an example out of you
Well this is phase one
This is the preview
Well this is phase one
Oh that this is where, where the party is
Are you comin' home? (are you comin' home?)
Are you comin' home? (are you comin' home?)
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
Don't act like you're the first one
I treat it like disease
Sure it's rough around the edges
It's the only thing you see
Don't act like you can't see me
Darling, coming...
Don't act like you can't see me
Darling, coming...
Don't act like you can't see me
Darling, coming...
Don't act like you can't see me coming
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
You had your chance
You had your chance
You had your chance
Don't let me get carried away
I've seen it before
And it still suites you the say
You catch on quick (you catch on quick)
As the cynics stop before
They give the same review (you catch on quick)
Oh that this is where, where the party is
Are you comin' home? (are you comin' home?)
Are you comin' home? (are you comin' home?)
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
You You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands
The abortion that you had left you
Clinically dead and made it All that much easier to lie
But its nothing that I'm proud of (no its nothing that I'm proud of)
Making an example out of you
Well this is phase one
This is the preview
Well this is phase one
Oh that this is where, where the party is
Are you comin' home? (are you comin' home?)
Are you comin' home? (are you comin' home?)
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
Don't act like you're the first one
I treat it like disease
Sure it's rough around the edges
It's the only thing you see
Don't act like you can't see me
Darling, coming...
Don't act like you can't see me
Darling, coming...
Don't act like you can't see me
Darling, coming...
Don't act like you can't see me coming
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
You had your chance (you had your chance)
Open arms reach out to soothing hands (reach out for soothing hands)
You had your chance
You had your chance
You had your chance
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