"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.
Well this is it, this is where we make a stand
You and me time to face this man to man
Can't you see we cannot go on
It's me against me again
I'm sick of the man I am within
Fighting me, making me fall down again
I commit, I'll commit your suicide
Now death will breath you in
Sitting here at my grave side I've never been so alive
You pulled the dead man out of me
I am not what I was, never again what I was
You pulled the dead man out of me
I buried you, you were nearly my demise
Only by the grace of God that I survived
I admit I was wrong to let you in
Never come back again
I can see all the possibilities rising up
Now that your not holding me down
This is where I say goodbye
And put the last bullet between your eyes
Sitting here at my graveside I've never been so alive
You pulled the dead man out of me
I am not what I was, never again what I was
You pulled the dead man out of me
Sitting here at my graveside I've never been more alive
You pulled the dead man out of me
I am not who I was, I'll never be who I was
You pulled the dead man out of
Sitting here at my graveside I've never been so alive
You pulled the dead man out of me
I am not what I was, never again what I was
You pulled the dead man out of me
You and me time to face this man to man
Can't you see we cannot go on
It's me against me again
I'm sick of the man I am within
Fighting me, making me fall down again
I commit, I'll commit your suicide
Now death will breath you in
Sitting here at my grave side I've never been so alive
You pulled the dead man out of me
I am not what I was, never again what I was
You pulled the dead man out of me
I buried you, you were nearly my demise
Only by the grace of God that I survived
I admit I was wrong to let you in
Never come back again
I can see all the possibilities rising up
Now that your not holding me down
This is where I say goodbye
And put the last bullet between your eyes
Sitting here at my graveside I've never been so alive
You pulled the dead man out of me
I am not what I was, never again what I was
You pulled the dead man out of me
Sitting here at my graveside I've never been more alive
You pulled the dead man out of me
I am not who I was, I'll never be who I was
You pulled the dead man out of
Sitting here at my graveside I've never been so alive
You pulled the dead man out of me
I am not what I was, never again what I was
You pulled the dead man out of me
Lyrics submitted by demonhunter93, edited by NemesisDM4
Dead Man Lyrics as written by Carlo Verni Robert Ellsworth
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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