"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.
How could I expect love or trust
The people here are lost
We live with holes in our hearts
Blood in our mouths...
How could you have done that to them
They were your children
Raped and beaten
Do you still wear that hard on?
These are good days anyway
I just feel so much rage
But we have each other
And I will hold you and hold you
Until your tears stop
Until the past gets buried again
I talk so much shit
Stay positive, stay positive
I'm feeling fucking negative
When all my anger builds up
When I imagine what it looked like
When they bled
You fucked up my friends
We come to this place this age
With hearts that are welted and bleeding
Somehow you have to take back
Those years and your fear
From the people who hurt you
These are good days anyway
I just feel so much rage
But we have each other
And I will hold you and hold you
Until your tears stop
Until the past gets buried again
I am not your father
Not your rapist
Not like the past
I am not the ones who left
But still you regard me
With that hint of unease
Will there ever be trust...
The people I know
Have grown strong with beatings
I'm feeling like our strength
Could be our greatest weakness
I'm trying to prove
Someone can love you
I'm trying to stand by your side...
The people here are lost
We live with holes in our hearts
Blood in our mouths...
How could you have done that to them
They were your children
Raped and beaten
Do you still wear that hard on?
These are good days anyway
I just feel so much rage
But we have each other
And I will hold you and hold you
Until your tears stop
Until the past gets buried again
I talk so much shit
Stay positive, stay positive
I'm feeling fucking negative
When all my anger builds up
When I imagine what it looked like
When they bled
You fucked up my friends
We come to this place this age
With hearts that are welted and bleeding
Somehow you have to take back
Those years and your fear
From the people who hurt you
These are good days anyway
I just feel so much rage
But we have each other
And I will hold you and hold you
Until your tears stop
Until the past gets buried again
I am not your father
Not your rapist
Not like the past
I am not the ones who left
But still you regard me
With that hint of unease
Will there ever be trust...
The people I know
Have grown strong with beatings
I'm feeling like our strength
Could be our greatest weakness
I'm trying to prove
Someone can love you
I'm trying to stand by your side...
Lyrics submitted by iceblink-luck
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