"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.
(T. Olsson/U. breed)
Every day's another day
Another chance to live this game
And every day's like every day
Another chance to play
Another time's the time to fly
Another line for you to try
And when the time is right
it's still a guessing game
What if it's all a lie?
What's this? A waste of time?
What then if suddenly things don't
turn for the worse?
Take one
Save us time
Let it run, let it run, let it run
Take two
It's a minefield I swear
Take three
The comfort zone
Take four
Turn every stone
Take one
Hand it out once more
Start the day picking up the same tray
Wish for but never get a clean slate
Try hard but let it slip away
Protection for the weak of mind
Killing time, now can't you see
Let it slide and it's all on me
Cut in line to stand in line
What if it's all a lie?
All just a waste of time?
All things considered
Would this really turn
and not turn for the worse?
Every day's another day
Another chance to live this game
And every day's like every day
Another chance to play
Another time's the time to fly
Another line for you to try
And when the time is right
it's still a guessing game
What if it's all a lie?
What's this? A waste of time?
What then if suddenly things don't
turn for the worse?
Take one
Save us time
Let it run, let it run, let it run
Take two
It's a minefield I swear
Take three
The comfort zone
Take four
Turn every stone
Take one
Hand it out once more
Start the day picking up the same tray
Wish for but never get a clean slate
Try hard but let it slip away
Protection for the weak of mind
Killing time, now can't you see
Let it slide and it's all on me
Cut in line to stand in line
What if it's all a lie?
All just a waste of time?
All things considered
Would this really turn
and not turn for the worse?
Lyrics submitted by SergeF2007
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