"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 had this pattern of repeating every word that you would say
Every word that you would say
Till I met you with a sigh and to this day I still regret
How I made you go away
I saw the whole world from your eyes, at least the glimpse you let me see
And what a glimpse you let me see
But your eyes can never stretch, over boundaries made in stone
I'm afraid that's what will be
I imagine if I had another chance
To tell you all the things I should have said
We'd still find ourselves content in circumstance
But I'm content to say this anyway
The day that you were hit by that car
My life changed
I was lost and out of touch, with the way you made me feel
With the way you make me feel
Everyday just passes now, and I can't count them on my own
And your face is never real
I imagine if I had another chance
To tell you all the things I should have said
We'd still find ourselves content in circumstance
But I'm content to say this anyway
The day that you were hit by that car
My life changed (The day that you were hit by that car)
You had this pattern of repeating every word that you would say
Every word that you would say
Till I met you with a sigh and to this day I still regret
How I made you go away
Every word that you would say
Till I met you with a sigh and to this day I still regret
How I made you go away
I saw the whole world from your eyes, at least the glimpse you let me see
And what a glimpse you let me see
But your eyes can never stretch, over boundaries made in stone
I'm afraid that's what will be
I imagine if I had another chance
To tell you all the things I should have said
We'd still find ourselves content in circumstance
But I'm content to say this anyway
The day that you were hit by that car
My life changed
I was lost and out of touch, with the way you made me feel
With the way you make me feel
Everyday just passes now, and I can't count them on my own
And your face is never real
I imagine if I had another chance
To tell you all the things I should have said
We'd still find ourselves content in circumstance
But I'm content to say this anyway
The day that you were hit by that car
My life changed (The day that you were hit by that car)
You had this pattern of repeating every word that you would say
Every word that you would say
Till I met you with a sigh and to this day I still regret
How I made you go away
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or she got hit by a car.
good song. but an even better response to the first comment.
such a beautiful song im going through these emotions right now really gnarly too i know exactly how he feels it sucks
He loves this girl but he messed things up and now is wanting more than anything another chance to make things right the things he should have done and said he thinks that if he had another chance things would be perfect again because he knows now what he should have done all along but its been too long to get another chance i think hes the car or his actions which ended things i think he broke it off and that was the car that hit her
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Joe, I just puked!!!