"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.
88 million light years away
I dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start sometihng new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
It feels like im travelling at light speed in reverse,
and as i mature everything on earth stays the same.
and dont you doubt that i say the same prayer every night,
i pray that when i wake up i'll find im 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
what would it take to change the lines of your fingerprints?
because im convinced that something else better exists.
and dont you doubt that i say the same prayer every night,
i pray that when i wake up i'll find im 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
do you ever get the feeling?
do you ever get the feeling when you look around the room,
that if you cut the person right next to you, sparks would fly out?
do you everget the feeling when you look around the room,
that if you never came back it would be too soon?
do you ever get the feeling, when you look around the room,
that not a damn thing in here is fresh or new?
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pices, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
88 million light years away
88 million light years away
I dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start sometihng new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
It feels like im travelling at light speed in reverse,
and as i mature everything on earth stays the same.
and dont you doubt that i say the same prayer every night,
i pray that when i wake up i'll find im 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
what would it take to change the lines of your fingerprints?
because im convinced that something else better exists.
and dont you doubt that i say the same prayer every night,
i pray that when i wake up i'll find im 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
do you ever get the feeling?
do you ever get the feeling when you look around the room,
that if you cut the person right next to you, sparks would fly out?
do you everget the feeling when you look around the room,
that if you never came back it would be too soon?
do you ever get the feeling, when you look around the room,
that not a damn thing in here is fresh or new?
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pices, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
i dont want to pick up the pieces, i want to start something new.
i want to start a brand new day, 88 million light years away.
88 million light years away
88 million light years away
Lyrics submitted by The Crowing 1862
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