"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.
When they met she was fifteen
Like a black rose blooming wild
And she already knew she was gonna die
"What's tomorrow without you?
This is our last goodbye"
She got weaker every day
As the autumn leaves flew by
Until one day, she told him, "This is when I die"
"What was summer like for you?"
She asked him with a smile
"What's tomorrow without you?"
He silently replied
She said,
"I will always be with you
I'm the anchor of your sorrow
There's no end to what I'll do
Cause I love you, I love you to death"
But the sorrow went too deep
The mountain fell too steep
And the wounds would never heal
Cause the pain of the loss was more than he could feel
He said,
"I will always be with you
By the anchor of my sorrow
All I know, or ever knew,
Is I love you, I love you to death"
"What's tomorrow without you?
Is this our last goodbye?"
"I will always be with you
I'm the anchor of your sorrow
There's no end to what I'll do
Cause I love you"
Like a black rose blooming wild
And she already knew she was gonna die
"What's tomorrow without you?
This is our last goodbye"
She got weaker every day
As the autumn leaves flew by
Until one day, she told him, "This is when I die"
"What was summer like for you?"
She asked him with a smile
"What's tomorrow without you?"
He silently replied
She said,
"I will always be with you
I'm the anchor of your sorrow
There's no end to what I'll do
Cause I love you, I love you to death"
But the sorrow went too deep
The mountain fell too steep
And the wounds would never heal
Cause the pain of the loss was more than he could feel
He said,
"I will always be with you
By the anchor of my sorrow
All I know, or ever knew,
Is I love you, I love you to death"
"What's tomorrow without you?
Is this our last goodbye?"
"I will always be with you
I'm the anchor of your sorrow
There's no end to what I'll do
Cause I love you"
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