"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.
Decide, decide
Is this safe to say?
Decide
Is that your style?
Is this decided?
Decide
Is this it?
Is this decided?
Decide
Really?
Fine
You walked in here
Was it like a dream?
You got in here
Was it like it seemed?
I won't say nothing, nothing
Not a fucking thing
Wish you would've said something, something
Something
Decide, decide
Is this safe to say?
Decide
Is that your style?
Is this decided?
Decide
Is this it?
Is this just fine?
Decide
Just fine
Everything is fine
Everything's just fine
Everything is fine
Everything's fine
You walked in here
Was it like a dream?
You got in here
Was it like it seemed?
I won't say nothing, nothing
Not a fucking thing
I just wanna say something, something
Something
And I wish one thing, one thing
Just one fucking thing
I heard her say something
Something, something
Decide, decide
Is this safe to say?
Decide
Is that your style?
Is this decided?
Decide
Is this it?
Is this just fine?
Everything's fine
Everything is fine
Everything just fine
Everything is fine
Is this safe to say?
Decide
Is that your style?
Is this decided?
Decide
Is this it?
Is this decided?
Decide
Really?
Fine
You walked in here
Was it like a dream?
You got in here
Was it like it seemed?
I won't say nothing, nothing
Not a fucking thing
Wish you would've said something, something
Something
Decide, decide
Is this safe to say?
Decide
Is that your style?
Is this decided?
Decide
Is this it?
Is this just fine?
Decide
Just fine
Everything is fine
Everything's just fine
Everything is fine
Everything's fine
You walked in here
Was it like a dream?
You got in here
Was it like it seemed?
I won't say nothing, nothing
Not a fucking thing
I just wanna say something, something
Something
And I wish one thing, one thing
Just one fucking thing
I heard her say something
Something, something
Decide, decide
Is this safe to say?
Decide
Is that your style?
Is this decided?
Decide
Is this it?
Is this just fine?
Everything's fine
Everything is fine
Everything just fine
Everything is fine
Lyrics submitted by Deadpool, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Rats!Rats!Rats! Lyrics as written by Abran Cunningham Abe Cunningham
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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