"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 can take what you'll say
I won't care that you have reasons to believe
That I'm living in this fear
You can take what you'll say
I won't care that you have spent you time on me
I've learned from life to sacrifice this all
Hold me now as my world crashes down
Can't you see that they push me away
Here that sound as our times running out
If you give me the chance
I will make you believe everything
I can take what you'll say
to me now is a flame that's burning out
I'm not living in this fear
I can see that this is how
You'll find out that this is more then anything
How much it means to fit this scene seems wrong
Hold me now as my world crashes down
Can't you see that they push me away
Here that sound as our times running out
If you give me the chance
I will make you believe everything
Hold me now as my world crashes down
Can't you see that they push me away
Here that sound as our times running out
If you give me the chance
I will make you believe everything
I won't care that you have reasons to believe
That I'm living in this fear
You can take what you'll say
I won't care that you have spent you time on me
I've learned from life to sacrifice this all
Hold me now as my world crashes down
Can't you see that they push me away
Here that sound as our times running out
If you give me the chance
I will make you believe everything
I can take what you'll say
to me now is a flame that's burning out
I'm not living in this fear
I can see that this is how
You'll find out that this is more then anything
How much it means to fit this scene seems wrong
Hold me now as my world crashes down
Can't you see that they push me away
Here that sound as our times running out
If you give me the chance
I will make you believe everything
Hold me now as my world crashes down
Can't you see that they push me away
Here that sound as our times running out
If you give me the chance
I will make you believe everything
Lyrics submitted by BrandNew1208
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