"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.
It’s me, and you, and all the things we do,
Just to go a little more, just to find a better view,
Despite of young hearts we know how it’s gonna be,
We don’t get for your crops cause we have our own tree,
There’s nothing wrong with your ways, but we can dance to this song,
We just wanna build and leave the bridge out of the silent void
If there’s something we could do,
To escape this silent void,
Just a word that we could say,
That would burn this silent door,
No we can’t stay here no more…
(We’re in love.. We’re in love)
I say love… I say love
And there’s no one I would rather be with,
Nothing I would rather do,
Cause I’ve got this dream, this heart that beats,
Outside this silent world, and I’ve got you
…and me, and all that we could be,
Out if this black hole show, by the black sea,
We’re all surrounded by the old, just running their stuff,
We don’t really care for them, they don’t really care for us,
You see, I don’t wanna be what they meant all of us to be,
Shaking hands with the sales artist, the master degrees,
With the, lost kids and the loveless ones,
Yeah I can look like them but I’ll never be one,
And if you wanna be the bullet out of this gun,
Then tell us please what you’re made of,
Oh tell us please what you’re made of,
Oh tell me please are you in love? Like me…
I say love…
And there’s no one I would rather be with,
Nothing I would rather do,
Cause I’ve got this dream, this heart that beats,
Outside this silent world, and I’ve got you.
We’re falling in the lights above us,
I hold wheel and we keep spinning,
We’re falling in the lights above us,
I guess our mind is made up,
We’re gonna put the stake up,
We can leave this silence…
We can leave this silent… void.
We can leave this silent… void.
We can leave this… void.
We can leave this silent… void.
I say love… I say love…
And there’s no one I would rather be with,
Nothing I would rather do,
Cause I’ve got this dream, this heart that beats,
Outside this silent world, and I’ve got you.
Outside this silent world a heart beats,
Outside this silent world well I’ve got you,
Outside this silent world my heart beats,
Outside this silent world well I’ve got you.
Just to go a little more, just to find a better view,
Despite of young hearts we know how it’s gonna be,
We don’t get for your crops cause we have our own tree,
There’s nothing wrong with your ways, but we can dance to this song,
We just wanna build and leave the bridge out of the silent void
If there’s something we could do,
To escape this silent void,
Just a word that we could say,
That would burn this silent door,
No we can’t stay here no more…
(We’re in love.. We’re in love)
I say love… I say love
And there’s no one I would rather be with,
Nothing I would rather do,
Cause I’ve got this dream, this heart that beats,
Outside this silent world, and I’ve got you
…and me, and all that we could be,
Out if this black hole show, by the black sea,
We’re all surrounded by the old, just running their stuff,
We don’t really care for them, they don’t really care for us,
You see, I don’t wanna be what they meant all of us to be,
Shaking hands with the sales artist, the master degrees,
With the, lost kids and the loveless ones,
Yeah I can look like them but I’ll never be one,
And if you wanna be the bullet out of this gun,
Then tell us please what you’re made of,
Oh tell us please what you’re made of,
Oh tell me please are you in love? Like me…
I say love…
And there’s no one I would rather be with,
Nothing I would rather do,
Cause I’ve got this dream, this heart that beats,
Outside this silent world, and I’ve got you.
We’re falling in the lights above us,
I hold wheel and we keep spinning,
We’re falling in the lights above us,
I guess our mind is made up,
We’re gonna put the stake up,
We can leave this silence…
We can leave this silent… void.
We can leave this silent… void.
We can leave this… void.
We can leave this silent… void.
I say love… I say love…
And there’s no one I would rather be with,
Nothing I would rather do,
Cause I’ve got this dream, this heart that beats,
Outside this silent world, and I’ve got you.
Outside this silent world a heart beats,
Outside this silent world well I’ve got you,
Outside this silent world my heart beats,
Outside this silent world well I’ve got you.
Lyrics submitted by OnlyPainIsReal
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