"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.
Welcome back to your sweet city
The wind sings in your face that you're at home
a hundred old lovers talking by themseleves keep me company while I'm home
Gettin' high in missle free skies like,
way back in the day
remember when you said that if I'd stay you'd always stay
getting high missile-free skies like,
way back in the day
If there's a bomb in your hand just throw it
if the guns to hard just run
This place is filled with sickos!
This place is filled with sickos!
Westcoast kids they are so mellow
I'd always stand out like a sore thumb
Southern girls they're oh so sensitive
Mid-western winters they make my bones numb
The wind sings in your face that you're at home
a hundred old lovers talking by themseleves keep me company while I'm home
Gettin' high in missle free skies like,
way back in the day
remember when you said that if I'd stay you'd always stay
getting high missile-free skies like,
way back in the day
If there's a bomb in your hand just throw it
if the guns to hard just run
This place is filled with sickos!
This place is filled with sickos!
Westcoast kids they are so mellow
I'd always stand out like a sore thumb
Southern girls they're oh so sensitive
Mid-western winters they make my bones numb
Lyrics submitted by josefs
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I always thought it was "Gettin' high in missile-free skies"
and "If there's a bomb in your hangar, just throw it"
That second one was probably just a typo though
"the wind sticks in your face when you're at home" should be The wind sings in your face that you're at home
"getting high amidst these free skies like," should be "Gettin' high in missle free skies like,"
"if there's a bomb in your just throw it" should be If there's a bomb in your hand just throw it
"Midwesterner with his wife make me feel numb " should be Mid-western winters they make my bones numb
Thanks guys,couldn't find lyrics anywhere so I was trying my best to decode them by ear
Here are the correct lyrics:
Welcome back to your sweet city The wind sings to your face that you're at home Underrated lovers with jolting backslaps Keep me company, say they've grown
Getting high in missile-free skies, like, way back in the day Remember when you said if I stayed you'd always stay Getting high in missile-free skies, like, way back in the day
If there's a bomb in your hand just throw it, If the ground's too hot just run, This place is filled with sickos, This place is filled with sickos (repeat x3)
West coast kids they're oh so mellow, I'd only stand out like a sore thumb, Southern girls they're oh so sincere, Midwestern winters, they make my bones numb
Getting high in missile-free skies, like, way back in the day Remember when you said if I stayed you'd always stay Getting high in missile-free skies, like, way back in the day
If there's a bomb in your hand just throw it, If the ground's too hot just run, This place is filled with sickos, This place is filled with sickos (repeat x3)