"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'm at the end of the middle snakin' out of the back door
At the beginning that we called the finih line yesterday
A new day like a fresh coat of paint, just a haze on the old mistakes
But it's good enough to scrape by and dodge a little decay
I need some electricity to fill the lightbulb
that's been dimming inside my brain
Cause day out day in everyone's throwng me
excuses and it's gonna drive me insane
Every time I add it up oh yeah I catch somebody subtracting me
Getting in a bit of trouble to alleviate the struggle I'm a victim of a third degree
Gotta get me high and dry
Under that big blue sky
With a slow down circle and a body of a goddess
That'll tell me everything's alright
Gotta get me high and dry
Under that big blue sky
With a slow down circle and a body of a goddess
That'll tell me everything's alright
Alright, Alright
Gotta get me high and dry
Under that big blue sky
With a slow down circle and a body of a goddess
That'll tell me everything's alright
Gotta get me high and dry
Under that big blue sky
With a slow down circle and a body of a goddess
That'll tell me it's alright
At the beginning that we called the finih line yesterday
A new day like a fresh coat of paint, just a haze on the old mistakes
But it's good enough to scrape by and dodge a little decay
I need some electricity to fill the lightbulb
that's been dimming inside my brain
Cause day out day in everyone's throwng me
excuses and it's gonna drive me insane
Every time I add it up oh yeah I catch somebody subtracting me
Getting in a bit of trouble to alleviate the struggle I'm a victim of a third degree
Gotta get me high and dry
Under that big blue sky
With a slow down circle and a body of a goddess
That'll tell me everything's alright
Gotta get me high and dry
Under that big blue sky
With a slow down circle and a body of a goddess
That'll tell me everything's alright
Alright, Alright
Gotta get me high and dry
Under that big blue sky
With a slow down circle and a body of a goddess
That'll tell me everything's alright
Gotta get me high and dry
Under that big blue sky
With a slow down circle and a body of a goddess
That'll tell me it's alright
Lyrics submitted by lineandsinker62
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