"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.
Bought a home we bartered right
2 kids, 2 car delight
Posed pictures on the walls
Small talk in the bedroom halls
Can't make it home tonight
Go sleep but leave the light
I pretend to make a call
Loose talk in bedroom stalls
Oh, oh, oh is my only offer
Stifle copies of myself
Oh, oh, oh or someone else
My friends they all agree
Give in to our defeat
In secret we believe
We're nothing, nothing, nothing that we need
Oh, oh, oh is my only offer
Stifle copies of myself
Oh, oh, oh or someone else
I always wanted to be the face in front of me
Debating a life sucked out the energy
build up a wall made out of finer things
Piled it high so we could barely see it
Oh, oh, oh is my only offer
Stifle copies of myself
Oh, oh, oh is all I have to offer
2 kids, 2 car delight
Posed pictures on the walls
Small talk in the bedroom halls
Can't make it home tonight
Go sleep but leave the light
I pretend to make a call
Loose talk in bedroom stalls
Oh, oh, oh is my only offer
Stifle copies of myself
Oh, oh, oh or someone else
My friends they all agree
Give in to our defeat
In secret we believe
We're nothing, nothing, nothing that we need
Oh, oh, oh is my only offer
Stifle copies of myself
Oh, oh, oh or someone else
I always wanted to be the face in front of me
Debating a life sucked out the energy
build up a wall made out of finer things
Piled it high so we could barely see it
Oh, oh, oh is my only offer
Stifle copies of myself
Oh, oh, oh is all I have to offer
Lyrics submitted by StuffLikeHearts
My Only Offer Lyrics as written by Kori Gardner Hammel Jason Edward Hammel
Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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