"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.
Tell me why you looked the other way
I've been tired of being blind
From staring at the sun
No cause for celebration tonight
Okay, right, you win
But always remember
Don't say you've not heard
When you'd die to get forever
Yeah, sometimes even monkeys fall from trees
The time has passed your mind's made up
We're going on our way
In my life this is happening to me
You live what you learn
I'll beg, steal and borrow
The thunder of hearts
Will echo tomorrow
Okay, right, you in
But always remember
I've said you've not heard
When you'd die to get forever
It's not much of a mystery
All these things are a habit you're to be
I've laid down here on bendy knees
But it's too much to ignore
I know a thing or two, well more than three
I wanted to be perfect
What if we should be
No chance of celebration tonight
You live what you learn
I'll beg, steal and borrow
The thunder of hearts
Will echo tomorrow
Okay, right, you win
But always remember
I've said now you've heard
Will you'd die to give forever
I've been tired of being blind
From staring at the sun
No cause for celebration tonight
Okay, right, you win
But always remember
Don't say you've not heard
When you'd die to get forever
Yeah, sometimes even monkeys fall from trees
The time has passed your mind's made up
We're going on our way
In my life this is happening to me
You live what you learn
I'll beg, steal and borrow
The thunder of hearts
Will echo tomorrow
Okay, right, you in
But always remember
I've said you've not heard
When you'd die to get forever
It's not much of a mystery
All these things are a habit you're to be
I've laid down here on bendy knees
But it's too much to ignore
I know a thing or two, well more than three
I wanted to be perfect
What if we should be
No chance of celebration tonight
You live what you learn
I'll beg, steal and borrow
The thunder of hearts
Will echo tomorrow
Okay, right, you win
But always remember
I've said now you've heard
Will you'd die to give forever
Lyrics submitted by ShakeyFan2
Thunder of Hearts Lyrics as written by Peter Shelley
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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