"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 and I
Were cut from the same piece of...
It's a classic case if not a tragic way
To witness desire versus distance
Your fire's burning bridges
And the last thing I could say might save this all
From the moment we let you in
This is where all the problems
And the rumors began
We said
We say...
You and I were cut from the same piece of
I don't know where this is going
Well, it's not easy
But no one said breathing
Would ever be this hard to do
Let the record show I am out of my own way
And there is absolutely no way
That I did this on my own
Insecurity's found a new home
And from the moment I let you in
This is where all the problems
And the rumors will end
I said
I say...
You and I were cut from the same piece of
I don't know where this is going
Well, it's not easy
But no one said breathing
Would ever be this hard to do
And maybe nine times out of ten
You will find my lying in a pit
With all those pitiful events
And left to simmer
There's no one to save me
Won't you save me now?
You and I were cut from the same piece of
I don't know where this is going
Well, it's not easy
But no one said breathing
Would ever be this hard to do (x2)
Were cut from the same piece of...
It's a classic case if not a tragic way
To witness desire versus distance
Your fire's burning bridges
And the last thing I could say might save this all
From the moment we let you in
This is where all the problems
And the rumors began
We said
We say...
You and I were cut from the same piece of
I don't know where this is going
Well, it's not easy
But no one said breathing
Would ever be this hard to do
Let the record show I am out of my own way
And there is absolutely no way
That I did this on my own
Insecurity's found a new home
And from the moment I let you in
This is where all the problems
And the rumors will end
I said
I say...
You and I were cut from the same piece of
I don't know where this is going
Well, it's not easy
But no one said breathing
Would ever be this hard to do
And maybe nine times out of ten
You will find my lying in a pit
With all those pitiful events
And left to simmer
There's no one to save me
Won't you save me now?
You and I were cut from the same piece of
I don't know where this is going
Well, it's not easy
But no one said breathing
Would ever be this hard to do (x2)
Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes
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