"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.
You don't have to deny your urge
It doesn't make you bad
On our admission the makeweight lifted
Stop dwelling on the past
I think about the three of us. I wonder how we tesselate
It would've been much wiser to allow these feelings to abate
Empty words, so free of connotations
All dreams come to an end
Codify your utterance, communicate your needs
Prepare your vocabulary
My nervous system fails me,
my thoughts are becoming fugitive
When I'm in your arms, I wonder how much I can give
The weekend is a Godsend
The night-time is a lifeline
Another useless fumble
Another drunken stumble
The pinkness 'round your iris
Reveals that you've been crying
But I don't know what my crime is
I cause upset without trying
People are judged on their mistakes
And how much money that they make
No-one wants to lose their youth
In a trench like this
Visiting the same places
Kissing all the same faces
Building up support
Looking for rapport
I empty out my pockets at the end of the night
Another scrawled first name
Another sense of shame
I need to get to bed before I fail myself again
We got too close that night and I reached out for your hand
The night-time is a lifeline
The weekend is a Godsend
Another useless fumble
Another drunken stumble
Oh, but the pinkness near your iris
Reveals that you've been crying
But I don't know what my crime is
Behind my crumbling veneer
My strength is sapping
My heartstrings are snapping
My strength is sapping
And my heartstrings are snapping
It doesn't make you bad
On our admission the makeweight lifted
Stop dwelling on the past
I think about the three of us. I wonder how we tesselate
It would've been much wiser to allow these feelings to abate
Empty words, so free of connotations
All dreams come to an end
Codify your utterance, communicate your needs
Prepare your vocabulary
My nervous system fails me,
my thoughts are becoming fugitive
When I'm in your arms, I wonder how much I can give
The weekend is a Godsend
The night-time is a lifeline
Another useless fumble
Another drunken stumble
The pinkness 'round your iris
Reveals that you've been crying
But I don't know what my crime is
I cause upset without trying
People are judged on their mistakes
And how much money that they make
No-one wants to lose their youth
In a trench like this
Visiting the same places
Kissing all the same faces
Building up support
Looking for rapport
I empty out my pockets at the end of the night
Another scrawled first name
Another sense of shame
I need to get to bed before I fail myself again
We got too close that night and I reached out for your hand
The night-time is a lifeline
The weekend is a Godsend
Another useless fumble
Another drunken stumble
Oh, but the pinkness near your iris
Reveals that you've been crying
But I don't know what my crime is
Behind my crumbling veneer
My strength is sapping
My heartstrings are snapping
My strength is sapping
And my heartstrings are snapping
Lyrics submitted by samhalverson, edited by Whipp
Your Urge Lyrics as written by Duncan Robert Lloyd Archis Tiku
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Sentric Music
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