"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.
I want everything.You don't mean a thing to me.I won't just turn the other cheek.And when you pray to be set free it won't matter.It doesn't matter.I can't wait for the day you'll look to me and say it's over now.How sweet that day will be when you say to me,it's over now.I won't believe one single thing your lying lips will say to me.I hate every thing that you say to me.You're the one who killed it all.Sleep safely...sleep safely...sleep safely...sleep safely.I can't wait for the day you look to me and say it's over now.How sweet that day will be when you say to me,it's over now.Cause I built this with my 2 hands.Cause I built this with my 2 hands,you never understood that,with my own 2 hands.Please...steal me away from everything I know,can we be (can we be)the only things that matter to you now.I can't wait for the day,you look to me and say its over now.
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With These Hands Lyrics as written by Benny Davis A. Silver
Lyrics © Kanjian Music
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