"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.
Please oh please come home today.
If you dont go I cant say no and it will hurt twice more.
Baby, I cant stop for my own desire.
I wrench my heart with misery and everybody knows.
Please oh please come home to me.
I begged, I begged for these eyes to stop seeing.
Before the lonleyness you know its your embrace i miss.
Oh please stick to sewing up the stitches.
Dig down deep with your fingertips. Feeling for the perfect shape with the color codes that match for this.
The lock upon the bolt that shut the door there to that old man's heart.
Long forgotten the keys location so he can load his gun.
But the clouds are getting gray and it looks about to rain.
And shes shaking off the morning while im trying to convince her that the pain thats in my belly aint because I cant maintain.
I just havn't felt like feeling for the past couple of days.
When she wakes up, peels the blankets, yells approval to the baby son, I squint my eyes and smile when she opens up the closet door with the body bare and beautiful, and contemplates the cloth in which to drape around her frame.
Got substitutes for stoking up the flame that keeps the pain outside.
The perfected perimiter, the place i like to hide.
But it burns, burns down till the fire is extinguished.
And im so cold when im alone in bed, when i wont stop quivering.
Please oh please come home to me.
I bled, I bled for this eyes to stop sinking in.
Swallow the sorrow with the chaser and it wins.
And listen to my promise even if i cant convince you.
If you dont go I cant say no and it will hurt twice more.
Baby, I cant stop for my own desire.
I wrench my heart with misery and everybody knows.
Please oh please come home to me.
I begged, I begged for these eyes to stop seeing.
Before the lonleyness you know its your embrace i miss.
Oh please stick to sewing up the stitches.
Dig down deep with your fingertips. Feeling for the perfect shape with the color codes that match for this.
The lock upon the bolt that shut the door there to that old man's heart.
Long forgotten the keys location so he can load his gun.
But the clouds are getting gray and it looks about to rain.
And shes shaking off the morning while im trying to convince her that the pain thats in my belly aint because I cant maintain.
I just havn't felt like feeling for the past couple of days.
When she wakes up, peels the blankets, yells approval to the baby son, I squint my eyes and smile when she opens up the closet door with the body bare and beautiful, and contemplates the cloth in which to drape around her frame.
Got substitutes for stoking up the flame that keeps the pain outside.
The perfected perimiter, the place i like to hide.
But it burns, burns down till the fire is extinguished.
And im so cold when im alone in bed, when i wont stop quivering.
Please oh please come home to me.
I bled, I bled for this eyes to stop sinking in.
Swallow the sorrow with the chaser and it wins.
And listen to my promise even if i cant convince you.
Lyrics submitted by natew010
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