"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.
I want to be your only friend.
Is that scary?
My active mind don't wish it so.
Watch out for these silent thoughts;
that's where the seed of soul-sucking grows.
When each who comes around you
takes some of your life.
That's when I get angry,
an outfit for my fire.
You want to be my daughter.
Come sit upon me.
I hate it, but it's so.
I wanted you as my mother,
cheering me as I go.
When each who comes around you
takes some of your life.
That's when I get angry,
an outfit for my fire
Picture us lounging, just sitting and listening and loving what we hear.
That has never happened, we both flail too much.
We flail too much to let the other near.
I want to be your only friend.
Beware of me.
My quiet mind is not fit to leave.
Take the warning, I've seen fit to lend.
And from this stage we have been freed.
Is that scary?
My active mind don't wish it so.
Watch out for these silent thoughts;
that's where the seed of soul-sucking grows.
When each who comes around you
takes some of your life.
That's when I get angry,
an outfit for my fire.
You want to be my daughter.
Come sit upon me.
I hate it, but it's so.
I wanted you as my mother,
cheering me as I go.
When each who comes around you
takes some of your life.
That's when I get angry,
an outfit for my fire
Picture us lounging, just sitting and listening and loving what we hear.
That has never happened, we both flail too much.
We flail too much to let the other near.
I want to be your only friend.
Beware of me.
My quiet mind is not fit to leave.
Take the warning, I've seen fit to lend.
And from this stage we have been freed.
Lyrics submitted by blueofthesky
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