"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.
In no end
A change
The demons of it
Capacity
A nesting
And just as tragically
My vision is burning
Is this all that i have left
And are you all that i have left
Your walls
They will come down
In this task
I will not faulter
Your walls
They will come down
I wont faulter
I WONT FAULTER
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I COULDN'T HANDLE THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK (would make you think
that i couldnt handle this)
My thoughts and my words
too have haunted
I begged and pleaded screaming
Stop, stop, stop, stop
But now i know the truth
And i can see right into you
Is this all that i have left
And are you all that i have left
Your walls
They will come down
In this task
I will not faulter
Your walls
They will come down
I wont faulter
I WONT FAULTER
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I COULDN'T HANDLE THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I COULDN'T HANDLE THIS?
Your walls
They will come down
In this task
I will not faulter
Your walls
They will come down
I wont fail at this
I WONT FAIL AT THIS
I wont fail at this
I wont fail at this
I wont fail at this
I wont fail at this
You will pay for this
You will pay for this
You will pay for this
You will pay for this
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I COULDN'T HANDLE THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK!!!
What the fuck
WHAT THE FUCK!!!
What the fuck
A change
The demons of it
Capacity
A nesting
And just as tragically
My vision is burning
Is this all that i have left
And are you all that i have left
Your walls
They will come down
In this task
I will not faulter
Your walls
They will come down
I wont faulter
I WONT FAULTER
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I COULDN'T HANDLE THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK (would make you think
that i couldnt handle this)
My thoughts and my words
too have haunted
I begged and pleaded screaming
Stop, stop, stop, stop
But now i know the truth
And i can see right into you
Is this all that i have left
And are you all that i have left
Your walls
They will come down
In this task
I will not faulter
Your walls
They will come down
I wont faulter
I WONT FAULTER
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I COULDN'T HANDLE THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I COULDN'T HANDLE THIS?
Your walls
They will come down
In this task
I will not faulter
Your walls
They will come down
I wont fail at this
I WONT FAIL AT THIS
I wont fail at this
I wont fail at this
I wont fail at this
I wont fail at this
You will pay for this
You will pay for this
You will pay for this
You will pay for this
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I WOULD FALL TO THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK WOULD MAKE YOU THINK
THAT I COULDN'T HANDLE THIS?
WHAT THE FUCK!!!
What the fuck
WHAT THE FUCK!!!
What the fuck
Lyrics submitted by HEDpeFAN
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this is probably one of 10 years's best. too bad it wasnt jesse hasek who sang it. i was able to find it and its awesome i cant really make out too much meaning but i assume that either someone doubted him and expected him to fail, or he doubted himself. it seemed to be the general message throughout the song. im trying to find the rest of this album, but it is pretty much impossible. cant even find the lyrics for most of the songs