"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.
Water gray
Through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean everywhere
Don't wanna reach for me, do you?
I mean nothin' to you
The little things give you away
And now there will be no mistakin'
The levees are breakin'
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I do
Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
Don't wanna reach for me, do you?
I mean nothin' to you
The little things give you away
But there will be no mistakin'
The levees are breakin'
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I do
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under ground now
Now I
Now I do
(Oh-oh-oh-oh)
(Oh, oh)
(Oh-oh)
(Oh-oh)
(Oh)
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
Through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean everywhere
Don't wanna reach for me, do you?
I mean nothin' to you
The little things give you away
And now there will be no mistakin'
The levees are breakin'
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I do
Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
Don't wanna reach for me, do you?
I mean nothin' to you
The little things give you away
But there will be no mistakin'
The levees are breakin'
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I do
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under ground now
Now I
Now I do
(Oh-oh-oh-oh)
(Oh, oh)
(Oh-oh)
(Oh-oh)
(Oh)
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
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