"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 don’t know
I don’t know anymore
That these days, are what I once stood for
I can’t say
I can’t say anymore
The final act of this play
not up for an encore
The volume of the storm left my ears ringing
Great tear across the sky
Even through the noise I still hear singing
Leaves me to be without dry eyes
Some days , lacking direction
as if we ever know, ever know
where we suppose to head
I feel, there’s been a lost connection
My eyes don’t read or even see
The light anymore
Once good, but now infected
been beaten down, dragged the ground
and left on the floor
I fear, there’s been a lost connection
The eyes don’t read, or even see
the light anymore
I don’t know anymore
That these days, are what I once stood for
I can’t say
I can’t say anymore
The final act of this play
not up for an encore
The volume of the storm left my ears ringing
Great tear across the sky
Even through the noise I still hear singing
Leaves me to be without dry eyes
Some days , lacking direction
as if we ever know, ever know
where we suppose to head
I feel, there’s been a lost connection
My eyes don’t read or even see
The light anymore
Once good, but now infected
been beaten down, dragged the ground
and left on the floor
I fear, there’s been a lost connection
The eyes don’t read, or even see
the light anymore
Lyrics submitted by jellohead122000
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