"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.
Set me off like dynamite strapped tight around my waist
We are the ones in competition but claim this ain't no race
(Let's go!)
Take a breath and explode like bullets
Tearing through the wind
Cut me up with a razor blade
Then try to separate the skin
Now when the
White flames are burning flags
We found a world worth dying for yeah
We've been battered so hard that
We don't feel anymore
Take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
So take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
Send me off on the morning breeze so far away from here
Fill your eyes in the strains of thought
Outside the warm embracing air
I'm moving slow
Like a glacier melting
Watch me dissipate
I searched for love in an empty world
But all I found was hate
Now when the
White flames are burning flags
We found a world worth dying for, yeah
We've been battered so hard that
I can't close my eyes anymore
Take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
So take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
Don't ask me why
'Cuz I don't know
Don't ask me how
I'm gonna solve this on my own
Don't ask me why
'Cuz I don't know
These things I'll never face
Scratch out the warning race
The wreckage of a job well done
I saw a place I'd never seen before, yeah
And that morning I refused to close my eyes anymore
Take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
So take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
So take me [2x]
We are the ones in competition but claim this ain't no race
(Let's go!)
Take a breath and explode like bullets
Tearing through the wind
Cut me up with a razor blade
Then try to separate the skin
Now when the
White flames are burning flags
We found a world worth dying for yeah
We've been battered so hard that
We don't feel anymore
Take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
So take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
Send me off on the morning breeze so far away from here
Fill your eyes in the strains of thought
Outside the warm embracing air
I'm moving slow
Like a glacier melting
Watch me dissipate
I searched for love in an empty world
But all I found was hate
Now when the
White flames are burning flags
We found a world worth dying for, yeah
We've been battered so hard that
I can't close my eyes anymore
Take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
So take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
Don't ask me why
'Cuz I don't know
Don't ask me how
I'm gonna solve this on my own
Don't ask me why
'Cuz I don't know
These things I'll never face
Scratch out the warning race
The wreckage of a job well done
I saw a place I'd never seen before, yeah
And that morning I refused to close my eyes anymore
Take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
So take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
All die young?
So take me [2x]
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Worth Dying For Lyrics as written by Christopher Chasse Brandon Barnes
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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