"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.
sometimes a silence seems
so loud to me
and i'm thinking out loud
and i'm trying to keep
too much reflection
isn't healthy for me
present and future
is where i need to be
but i'm stalling this story
i'm gonna fill it with glory
cause theres no place to go but up
and i'm changing my outlook
cause looking inwards
isn't always a good place to go
and i hold my head now
with a tear in my eye
cause i don't really
care no more
always so little things
that eat at your soul
and i'm not gonna
worry about them no more
i came a long way
came a-a long way
came a-a long way
came a-a long way
day by day
living this way
i'm gonna carry on
i'm i'm taking my time
gonna do things just right
i'm gonna carry on
ohohhh ohohhhm..
oh my head's always
been filled with worry
and i think it apart
and it will always bleed
i got no expectations
ain't got no regrets
when i was living that way
i wasn't living at all
well i'm stalling this story
gonna fill it with glory
cause theres no place to go but up
and i'm changing my outlook
cause looking inwards
wasn't always a good place to go
and i hold my head now
with a tear in my eye
cause i don't really care no more
oh it's those little things
that eat at your soul
and i'm not gonna worry
about them no more
i came a long way
came a-a long way
came a-a long way
came a-a long way
day by day
living this way
i'm gonna carry on
I'm I'm taking my time
gonna do things just right
i'm gonna carry on oh ohhh
into despise
let me discover
don't want to rewrite
my lover
and living thereby
cause i'm in your life and
how did i get here?
so loud to me
and i'm thinking out loud
and i'm trying to keep
too much reflection
isn't healthy for me
present and future
is where i need to be
but i'm stalling this story
i'm gonna fill it with glory
cause theres no place to go but up
and i'm changing my outlook
cause looking inwards
isn't always a good place to go
and i hold my head now
with a tear in my eye
cause i don't really
care no more
always so little things
that eat at your soul
and i'm not gonna
worry about them no more
i came a long way
came a-a long way
came a-a long way
came a-a long way
day by day
living this way
i'm gonna carry on
i'm i'm taking my time
gonna do things just right
i'm gonna carry on
ohohhh ohohhhm..
oh my head's always
been filled with worry
and i think it apart
and it will always bleed
i got no expectations
ain't got no regrets
when i was living that way
i wasn't living at all
well i'm stalling this story
gonna fill it with glory
cause theres no place to go but up
and i'm changing my outlook
cause looking inwards
wasn't always a good place to go
and i hold my head now
with a tear in my eye
cause i don't really care no more
oh it's those little things
that eat at your soul
and i'm not gonna worry
about them no more
i came a long way
came a-a long way
came a-a long way
came a-a long way
day by day
living this way
i'm gonna carry on
I'm I'm taking my time
gonna do things just right
i'm gonna carry on oh ohhh
into despise
let me discover
don't want to rewrite
my lover
and living thereby
cause i'm in your life and
how did i get here?
Lyrics submitted by fjording
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