"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.
There were no hard feelings between Highland and vine
There were no hard feelings at the top of Mulholland Drive
There were no hard feelings while we burned on your floor
There were no hard feelings till that girl showed up at my door
All the old distractions draining from my head
All my questions answered by your words unsaid
There were no hard feelings while we wasted the days
But you did this to me like its some fucking sport you play
You did this You did this to me
(you can never do this to me again
I can never do this again without you)
I could ask for too much and never get less
I could demand absolute and righteousness
He could stand in perfect satisfy the need
But he will never bear my soul when hes looking at me
Your hands move sure your thought is swift your breath is calm youre so alive
Your art is real your time is long your faith naïve your vision bright
You are a friend you are a home you are the truth and youre a lie
Your hands move sure your skin is soft your lips are wet your so alive
Now I can not be trusted with a worthy heart
He can stand there naked I will tear him apart
He will suffer all the pain that youll never see
And its a shity deal for him because you did this to me
There were no hard feelings at the top of Mulholland Drive
There were no hard feelings while we burned on your floor
There were no hard feelings till that girl showed up at my door
All the old distractions draining from my head
All my questions answered by your words unsaid
There were no hard feelings while we wasted the days
But you did this to me like its some fucking sport you play
You did this You did this to me
(you can never do this to me again
I can never do this again without you)
I could ask for too much and never get less
I could demand absolute and righteousness
He could stand in perfect satisfy the need
But he will never bear my soul when hes looking at me
Your hands move sure your thought is swift your breath is calm youre so alive
Your art is real your time is long your faith naïve your vision bright
You are a friend you are a home you are the truth and youre a lie
Your hands move sure your skin is soft your lips are wet your so alive
Now I can not be trusted with a worthy heart
He can stand there naked I will tear him apart
He will suffer all the pain that youll never see
And its a shity deal for him because you did this to me
Lyrics submitted by VampedVixen
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