"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.
Oh oh oh, Oh oh oh, here we go, Oh oh oh, Oh oh oh,
Oh oh oh, Oh oh oh
We got problems, we don't know how to solve them
Everywhere we go, we got some skeleton's that follow
We got baggage, you know we're gonna drag it
Everywhere we go, for everyone to see
And the broken hearts parade
And I'm putting my heart out on display there's no,
Masquerade, just a funeral march for love today
The band strikes up and they're playing our song
Dressed in black and we're singing along, to the
Broken hearts parade, I've never been better then I am today
Oh oh oh, Oh oh oh
You got a question, how do we get it started?
I got an answer: let go of your heart and
Love it, live it, leave it and get into it
If you wanna start it, this is how you do it
And the broken hearts parade
And I'm putting my heart out on display there's no,
Masquerade, just a funeral march for love today
The band strikes up and they're playing our song
Dressed in black and we're singing along, to the
Broken hearts parade and I've never been better then I am today
I used to lie awake at night and wonder when she's coming home
It used to be so hard to wake up everyday
The broken hearts parade
And we're putting our hearts out on display there's no,
Masquerade, just a funeral march for love today
The band strikes up and they're playing our song
Dressed in black and we're singing along, to the
Broken hearts parade and I've never been better then I am today
March on to the soul
The beating of a broken heart
Stop put the rhythm to bed
To the beating of a broken heart
Oh oh oh, Oh oh oh
We got problems, we don't know how to solve them
Everywhere we go, we got some skeleton's that follow
We got baggage, you know we're gonna drag it
Everywhere we go, for everyone to see
And the broken hearts parade
And I'm putting my heart out on display there's no,
Masquerade, just a funeral march for love today
The band strikes up and they're playing our song
Dressed in black and we're singing along, to the
Broken hearts parade, I've never been better then I am today
Oh oh oh, Oh oh oh
You got a question, how do we get it started?
I got an answer: let go of your heart and
Love it, live it, leave it and get into it
If you wanna start it, this is how you do it
And the broken hearts parade
And I'm putting my heart out on display there's no,
Masquerade, just a funeral march for love today
The band strikes up and they're playing our song
Dressed in black and we're singing along, to the
Broken hearts parade and I've never been better then I am today
I used to lie awake at night and wonder when she's coming home
It used to be so hard to wake up everyday
The broken hearts parade
And we're putting our hearts out on display there's no,
Masquerade, just a funeral march for love today
The band strikes up and they're playing our song
Dressed in black and we're singing along, to the
Broken hearts parade and I've never been better then I am today
March on to the soul
The beating of a broken heart
Stop put the rhythm to bed
To the beating of a broken heart
Lyrics submitted by Bound By Silence
Broken Hearts Parade Lyrics as written by Benji Madden Don Gilmore
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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