"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.
This is the clock upon the wall
This is the story of us all
This is the first sound of a newborn child
Before he starts to crawl
This is the war that's never won
This is a soldier and his gun
This is the mother waiting by the phone
Praying for her son
Chorus:
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be
There is a drug that cures it all
Blocked by the governmental wall
We are the scientists inside the lab
Just waiting for the call
This earthquake weather has got me shaking inside
I'm high up and dry
Chorus:
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you
[Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be
Bridge:
Confess to me
Every secret moment
Every stolen promise you believed
Confess to me
All that lies between us
All that lies between you and me
We are the boxers in the ring
We are the bells that never sing
There is a title we can't win no matter
How hard we might swing
Chorus:
Pictures of you
[Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you
{Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
[Of me]
Remind us all of what we could have been
[Could have been]
Pictures of you
[Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
[World to see]
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we could have been
[Could have been]
Could have been
We could have been
[Could have been]
Pictures of you
[Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
[Of me]
Remind us all of what we could have been
[Could have been]
Could have been
This is the story of us all
This is the first sound of a newborn child
Before he starts to crawl
This is the war that's never won
This is a soldier and his gun
This is the mother waiting by the phone
Praying for her son
Chorus:
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be
There is a drug that cures it all
Blocked by the governmental wall
We are the scientists inside the lab
Just waiting for the call
This earthquake weather has got me shaking inside
I'm high up and dry
Chorus:
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you
[Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we used to be
Bridge:
Confess to me
Every secret moment
Every stolen promise you believed
Confess to me
All that lies between us
All that lies between you and me
We are the boxers in the ring
We are the bells that never sing
There is a title we can't win no matter
How hard we might swing
Chorus:
Pictures of you
[Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
Pictures of you
{Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
[Of me]
Remind us all of what we could have been
[Could have been]
Pictures of you
[Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
Hung upon your wall for the world to see
[World to see]
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Remind us all of what we could have been
[Could have been]
Could have been
We could have been
[Could have been]
Pictures of you
[Pictures of you]
Pictures of me
[Of me]
Remind us all of what we could have been
[Could have been]
Could have been
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