"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.
They keep playing sad songs on the radio
And I feel like I'm so alone
On this fifteen hour drive
And all the while I tell myself to just believe
'Cause nobody can give so much and never get anything
(Never get anything)
Everyone I used to know
Says they don't know what I've become
But I'm still the same, not much has changed
I still know where I came from
I fell asleep with the lights on
And I can see that you're the first one in a long time
That had some faith in me
(Have faith in me)
Tell my friends we won't be long
The Florida sun begs me to come back home
And it feels like I'm ready for anything
If you can wait for me
And all the while I say too much of what I think
And I can't remember what it's like to find meaning in anything
For the life of me
Everyone I used to know
Says they don't know what I've become
But I'm still the same, not much has changed
I still know where I came from
And all I ever wanted was so far from what I need
I'll write my songs, they'll sing along
And hope time heals everything
I fell asleep with the lights on
And I can see that you're the first one in a long time
That had some faith in me
(Have faith in me)
Tell my friends we won't be long
The Florida sun begs me to come back home
And it feels like I'm ready for anything
If you can wait for me
This is all I have
This is all I have
It's my life
This is all I have
This is all I have
I fell asleep with the lights on
And I can see that you're the first one in a long time
That had some faith in me
(Have faith in me)
Tell my friends we won't be long
The Florida sun begs me to come back home
And it feels like I'm ready for anything
If you can wait for me
I fell asleep with the lights on (lights on)
And I can see that you're the first one in a long time
That had some faith in me
(Have faith in me)
Tell my friends we won't be long (won't be long)
The Florida sun begs me to come back home
And it feels like I'm ready for anything
If you can wait for me
And I feel like I'm so alone
On this fifteen hour drive
And all the while I tell myself to just believe
'Cause nobody can give so much and never get anything
(Never get anything)
Everyone I used to know
Says they don't know what I've become
But I'm still the same, not much has changed
I still know where I came from
I fell asleep with the lights on
And I can see that you're the first one in a long time
That had some faith in me
(Have faith in me)
Tell my friends we won't be long
The Florida sun begs me to come back home
And it feels like I'm ready for anything
If you can wait for me
And all the while I say too much of what I think
And I can't remember what it's like to find meaning in anything
For the life of me
Everyone I used to know
Says they don't know what I've become
But I'm still the same, not much has changed
I still know where I came from
And all I ever wanted was so far from what I need
I'll write my songs, they'll sing along
And hope time heals everything
I fell asleep with the lights on
And I can see that you're the first one in a long time
That had some faith in me
(Have faith in me)
Tell my friends we won't be long
The Florida sun begs me to come back home
And it feels like I'm ready for anything
If you can wait for me
This is all I have
This is all I have
It's my life
This is all I have
This is all I have
I fell asleep with the lights on
And I can see that you're the first one in a long time
That had some faith in me
(Have faith in me)
Tell my friends we won't be long
The Florida sun begs me to come back home
And it feels like I'm ready for anything
If you can wait for me
I fell asleep with the lights on (lights on)
And I can see that you're the first one in a long time
That had some faith in me
(Have faith in me)
Tell my friends we won't be long (won't be long)
The Florida sun begs me to come back home
And it feels like I'm ready for anything
If you can wait for me
Lyrics submitted by eltroyo11, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Another Song About The Weekend Lyrics as written by Jeremy Wade Mckinnon Thomas H. Jr. Denney
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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this song has the lyrics 'have faith in me' and it confuses the hell the out of me. i cant ever remember which song is which.