"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.
The worst part
every hour of every day
can you hear them
there's no escape
but the truth is
there's a line that we all cross
I've been crossed out
we all get crossed out
All the same sad lives
all the love that disappears
we are aching bones
and wasted years
We have few regrets
save it for every night alone
in the sinking ship and haunted home
Out of the blue out into the loneliest place that you'll ever know.
I carried the world just as far as I could but the damage had taken it's tole.
You used to call my name every hour of every day
how I live to hear that sound
but every sound gets washed away
we wash away
We are not as strong
we have almost disappeared
all the love we shared
was destroyed years ago
All the days and nights
days of having lots of lies
as the clockwork creeps on useless lives
Out of the blue out into the loneliest place that you'll ever know.
I carried the world just as far as I could but the damage had taken its tole
You used to call my name every hour of every day
how I live to hear that sound
but every sound gets washed away
And the years have been unkind
we no longer have control
and we used to make a smile
Pursue the sound and lock the door
We are no more
I wrote a letter, a letter to write from the start
I married the madness who left me alone in the dark
wrote down her a letter "I'll shiver without you tonight"
I did everything right
I did everything I thought was right
I did everything right
I did everything I thought was right
I did everything right
I did everything I thought was right
You used to call my name
every hour of every day
how I live to hear that sound
but every sound gets washed away
we wash away
every hour of every day
can you hear them
there's no escape
but the truth is
there's a line that we all cross
I've been crossed out
we all get crossed out
All the same sad lives
all the love that disappears
we are aching bones
and wasted years
We have few regrets
save it for every night alone
in the sinking ship and haunted home
Out of the blue out into the loneliest place that you'll ever know.
I carried the world just as far as I could but the damage had taken it's tole.
You used to call my name every hour of every day
how I live to hear that sound
but every sound gets washed away
we wash away
We are not as strong
we have almost disappeared
all the love we shared
was destroyed years ago
All the days and nights
days of having lots of lies
as the clockwork creeps on useless lives
Out of the blue out into the loneliest place that you'll ever know.
I carried the world just as far as I could but the damage had taken its tole
You used to call my name every hour of every day
how I live to hear that sound
but every sound gets washed away
And the years have been unkind
we no longer have control
and we used to make a smile
Pursue the sound and lock the door
We are no more
I wrote a letter, a letter to write from the start
I married the madness who left me alone in the dark
wrote down her a letter "I'll shiver without you tonight"
I did everything right
I did everything I thought was right
I did everything right
I did everything I thought was right
I did everything right
I did everything I thought was right
You used to call my name
every hour of every day
how I live to hear that sound
but every sound gets washed away
we wash away
Lyrics submitted by sheslikeohsoemo
The Worst Part Lyrics as written by Joshua Allen Cain Jesse Mack Johnson
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i really hope i got these lyrics right. there's one part that i'm still not sure and it's that line
all the days and nights days of having lots of lies
so if anyone knows what the line is or if that's right, tell me.