"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.
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
As you once heard
I just want to go somewhere
And hold you in my arms
I just want to go somewhere
To sort things on my own
But it's following
A dream
That reminds me
To believe it when I say
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
But we'll lay down now
Making sure we put these words
Between us
Maybe I can go somewhere
And be the only one
Maybe I can make you think
That I'm the only one
That's left to say
That I was wrong
That you've been right
About everything all along
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
But we'll lay down now
Making sure we
Put these words between us
Don't put these words
Between us
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
But we'll lay down
We'll lay down
Before we come
To regret our fate
And I'll push them down
And I'll push them down
On the floor between us
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
And we'll lay these words
And we'll put them down
On the floor between us
Don't put these words between us
Don't put these words between us
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
As you once heard
I just want to go somewhere
And hold you in my arms
I just want to go somewhere
To sort things on my own
But it's following
A dream
That reminds me
To believe it when I say
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
But we'll lay down now
Making sure we put these words
Between us
Maybe I can go somewhere
And be the only one
Maybe I can make you think
That I'm the only one
That's left to say
That I was wrong
That you've been right
About everything all along
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
But we'll lay down now
Making sure we
Put these words between us
Don't put these words
Between us
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
But we'll lay down
We'll lay down
Before we come
To regret our fate
And I'll push them down
And I'll push them down
On the floor between us
I lie awake
Because I'm scared
I'm not as fake
As you once heard
And we'll lay these words
And we'll put them down
On the floor between us
Don't put these words between us
Don't put these words between us
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Great version of a great song,
this song is definitely much improved from the demo