"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.
You fade in and out like you're not sure where you are
And I kiss the back of your neck
Where you don't have to kiss me back
And this time, I'm closing both my eyes
When it's hard to look at me
When you begin to cry
And we can lay like ghosts
If that will help you stay
I'll never say a word again
Put the questions away
How can you say you're not in love anymore
When tomorrow, we'll be back to the way we were before
How can you pretend you don't care anymore
Like you've lost all the reasons
Tonight, we can dress like crooks
Just to change the way we look, oh, love
And if you want to smile
Like the sadness isn't foul
Like your head's not a mess
Like I was someone else
How can you say you're not in love anymore
When tomorrow, we'll be back to the way we were before
How can you pretend you don't care anymore
Like you've lost all the reasons
It's out of habit, but I'm yours and yours to break
'Cause I've given up on hoping we could stay the same
This is all that we are, this is all that we are
How can you say you're not in love anymore?
How can you tell me you don't care anymore?
I did not see you change, 'cause nothing changed at all
How can you say you don't know anymore?
How can you love me and walk straight out the door?
And I know ?, 'cause I ?
And I kiss the back of your neck
Where you don't have to kiss me back
And this time, I'm closing both my eyes
When it's hard to look at me
When you begin to cry
And we can lay like ghosts
If that will help you stay
I'll never say a word again
Put the questions away
How can you say you're not in love anymore
When tomorrow, we'll be back to the way we were before
How can you pretend you don't care anymore
Like you've lost all the reasons
Tonight, we can dress like crooks
Just to change the way we look, oh, love
And if you want to smile
Like the sadness isn't foul
Like your head's not a mess
Like I was someone else
How can you say you're not in love anymore
When tomorrow, we'll be back to the way we were before
How can you pretend you don't care anymore
Like you've lost all the reasons
It's out of habit, but I'm yours and yours to break
'Cause I've given up on hoping we could stay the same
This is all that we are, this is all that we are
How can you say you're not in love anymore?
How can you tell me you don't care anymore?
I did not see you change, 'cause nothing changed at all
How can you say you don't know anymore?
How can you love me and walk straight out the door?
And I know ?, 'cause I ?
Lyrics submitted by andreaaaa
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