"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.
No more secrets
No more games
Not another day of living this way
Cigarette smoke filled room concealing
Everthing your heart is feeling
You took away the only thing left worth fighting for
The lock is broken on the front door
And everybody's walking in covered in mud
To take turns on the thing that you've become
what's done is done and done is gone so
let what's coming come
All this ends here and now
cause I'm about to put my foot down
I've been a witness
to all of your lies and games
I've been a witness
You are the worst mistake i ever made
I've been a witness
to all of the games you play
so sick of your bullshit
You are the worst mistake i ever made
Not another word
Not until they heard
Every single bad situation that occured
Every wrong look and feeling
You got me crawling on the god damn ceilings
I'm taking all the evidence calling all the papers
Plastering your face on every television station
No more back ally cover-up bullshit
I'm leaving and I'm taking what I came with
what's done is done and done is gone so
let what's coming come
All this ends here and now
cause I'm about to put my foot down
I've been a witness
to all of your lies and games
I've been a witness
You are the worst mistake i ever made
I've been a witness
to all of the games you play
so sick of your bullshit
You are the worst mistake i ever made
I've been a witness to you
And all of the things that you do
You make my job so easy
Because you look so guilty
I've been a witness
to all of your lies and games
I've been a witness
You are the worst mistake i ever made
I've been a witness
to all of the games you play
so sick of your bullshit
You are the worst mistake i ever made
No more games
Not another day of living this way
Cigarette smoke filled room concealing
Everthing your heart is feeling
You took away the only thing left worth fighting for
The lock is broken on the front door
And everybody's walking in covered in mud
To take turns on the thing that you've become
what's done is done and done is gone so
let what's coming come
All this ends here and now
cause I'm about to put my foot down
I've been a witness
to all of your lies and games
I've been a witness
You are the worst mistake i ever made
I've been a witness
to all of the games you play
so sick of your bullshit
You are the worst mistake i ever made
Not another word
Not until they heard
Every single bad situation that occured
Every wrong look and feeling
You got me crawling on the god damn ceilings
I'm taking all the evidence calling all the papers
Plastering your face on every television station
No more back ally cover-up bullshit
I'm leaving and I'm taking what I came with
what's done is done and done is gone so
let what's coming come
All this ends here and now
cause I'm about to put my foot down
I've been a witness
to all of your lies and games
I've been a witness
You are the worst mistake i ever made
I've been a witness
to all of the games you play
so sick of your bullshit
You are the worst mistake i ever made
I've been a witness to you
And all of the things that you do
You make my job so easy
Because you look so guilty
I've been a witness
to all of your lies and games
I've been a witness
You are the worst mistake i ever made
I've been a witness
to all of the games you play
so sick of your bullshit
You are the worst mistake i ever made
Lyrics submitted by Helljumper
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