"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 making me nervous
How every day feels the same
Meet my phantoms
They never seem to want to go away
So they stay
I found a good place for
Everyone to come and rest
All I ever wanted
Is for everyone I know to come and rest
Meet my phantoms
Meet my phantoms
Meet my phantoms
Meet my phantoms
Hide your body
I tainted your soul
Why are you trying to steal my thoughts before they form
Before I
?????
If everything's fine then why
Hide your body
I tainted your soul
Why are you trying to steal my thoughts before they form
Fall right in
Sure it's more than love and go, than love and go
Beware your pride
Use your time
Use your time
Wasted life
Feel the music change your mind
Where's your body
Where's your soul
Wasted life
Feel the music change your mind
Where's your body
Where's the soul
Sure it's more than love and go, than love and go
Use your time
Wasted time
Feel the music change your mind
Where's your body
Where's your soul
Wasted life
Feel the music change your mind
Feel the music change your mind
How every day feels the same
Meet my phantoms
They never seem to want to go away
So they stay
I found a good place for
Everyone to come and rest
All I ever wanted
Is for everyone I know to come and rest
Meet my phantoms
Meet my phantoms
Meet my phantoms
Meet my phantoms
Hide your body
I tainted your soul
Why are you trying to steal my thoughts before they form
Before I
?????
If everything's fine then why
Hide your body
I tainted your soul
Why are you trying to steal my thoughts before they form
Fall right in
Sure it's more than love and go, than love and go
Beware your pride
Use your time
Use your time
Wasted life
Feel the music change your mind
Where's your body
Where's your soul
Wasted life
Feel the music change your mind
Where's your body
Where's the soul
Sure it's more than love and go, than love and go
Use your time
Wasted time
Feel the music change your mind
Where's your body
Where's your soul
Wasted life
Feel the music change your mind
Feel the music change your mind
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