"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.
Sometimes it comes without words
Sometimes it goes without saying
I had the best brown-eyed girl
But now she’s gone beyond praying for
I’m a saint, but she didn’t mind me
At the same time she just couldn’t find me
She went looking for space as people all will
Until they get to that place, some kind of chill
Sometimes it comes without words
Sometimes it goes without saying
Sometimes the only kind of luck you get is what you have been constantly praying for
When my notes are gone and I still need to make a sound
When my love’s been took and I’m no longer hanging around with
All the same, I might find it
Love is blind babe, but I didn’t blind it
It’s gone looking for space as people all will
Until they get to that place, some kind of chill
All the same, I might find it
Love is blind babe, but I didn’t blind it
It’s gone looking for space as people all will
Until they get to that place, some kind of chill
Sometimes it goes without saying
I had the best brown-eyed girl
But now she’s gone beyond praying for
I’m a saint, but she didn’t mind me
At the same time she just couldn’t find me
She went looking for space as people all will
Until they get to that place, some kind of chill
Sometimes it comes without words
Sometimes it goes without saying
Sometimes the only kind of luck you get is what you have been constantly praying for
When my notes are gone and I still need to make a sound
When my love’s been took and I’m no longer hanging around with
All the same, I might find it
Love is blind babe, but I didn’t blind it
It’s gone looking for space as people all will
Until they get to that place, some kind of chill
All the same, I might find it
Love is blind babe, but I didn’t blind it
It’s gone looking for space as people all will
Until they get to that place, some kind of chill
Lyrics submitted by Destructedstar
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