"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.
I toss and turn, I'm losing sleep
Can't seem to make any sense of anything
I keep wandering around in circles, in a daze
Just when I start awakening
I find that something's intoxicating me
Till I'm tangled up, lost inside a maze
I can't outrun it
Just keeps comin'
Oh, your love is relentless
Just like the waves against the sand
Over and over, and time and time again
Your love keeps on reaching out to me
I can't outrun it
Just keeps comin'
Oh, your love is relentless
I can't fight it
There's no hiding
Oh, your love is relentless
I'm staring at a hurricane
A hundred miles of rapid rain
I just smile, bleed into the wind
'Cause I can't outrun it
I can't outrun it
Just keeps comin'
Oh, your love is relentless
I can't fight it
There's no hiding
Oh, your love is relentless
I toss and turn, I'm losing sleep
Can't seem to make any sense of anything
I keep wandering round in circles, in a daze
Just when I start awakening
I find something's intoxicating me
Till I'm tangled up, lost inside a maze
Can't seem to make any sense of anything
I keep wandering around in circles, in a daze
Just when I start awakening
I find that something's intoxicating me
Till I'm tangled up, lost inside a maze
I can't outrun it
Just keeps comin'
Oh, your love is relentless
Just like the waves against the sand
Over and over, and time and time again
Your love keeps on reaching out to me
I can't outrun it
Just keeps comin'
Oh, your love is relentless
I can't fight it
There's no hiding
Oh, your love is relentless
I'm staring at a hurricane
A hundred miles of rapid rain
I just smile, bleed into the wind
'Cause I can't outrun it
I can't outrun it
Just keeps comin'
Oh, your love is relentless
I can't fight it
There's no hiding
Oh, your love is relentless
I toss and turn, I'm losing sleep
Can't seem to make any sense of anything
I keep wandering round in circles, in a daze
Just when I start awakening
I find something's intoxicating me
Till I'm tangled up, lost inside a maze
Lyrics submitted by Shattered Dreams
Relentless Lyrics as written by James Leblanc John Paul White
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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