"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.
Oh sugar,
Oh sugar can't you see
How hard I'm tryin'?
You know you gotta,
You know you gotta eventually
Make up your mind
'Cause no one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
So would you
So would you talk to me?
It's time to decide
'Cause no one's gonna save ya
If you don't swim for the boat
No one's gonna save ya
If you won't take the rope
No one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
And it's end love the sky is fallin'
End love, the sky is fallin'
The sky is fallin'
So sugar,
So sugar dance with me
This one last time
We got no reason,
We got no reason I can see
To hold back tonight
'Cause no one's gonna catch ya
If you can't just let go
No one's gonna know ya
If you can't let love show
No one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
And it's end love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
The sky is fallin'
Oh sugar
Oh sugar can't you see
How hard I'm tryin'
You know you gotta
You know you gotta eventually
Make up your mind
And it's end love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
The sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
Oh sugar can't you see
How hard I'm tryin'?
You know you gotta,
You know you gotta eventually
Make up your mind
'Cause no one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
So would you
So would you talk to me?
It's time to decide
'Cause no one's gonna save ya
If you don't swim for the boat
No one's gonna save ya
If you won't take the rope
No one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
And it's end love the sky is fallin'
End love, the sky is fallin'
The sky is fallin'
So sugar,
So sugar dance with me
This one last time
We got no reason,
We got no reason I can see
To hold back tonight
'Cause no one's gonna catch ya
If you can't just let go
No one's gonna know ya
If you can't let love show
No one's gonna find ya
When you're hiding in the dark
No one's gonna find ya
And it's end love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
The sky is fallin'
Oh sugar
Oh sugar can't you see
How hard I'm tryin'
You know you gotta
You know you gotta eventually
Make up your mind
And it's end love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
The sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
End love the sky is fallin'
Lyrics submitted by Nannerpuss42
End Love Lyrics as written by Timothy Nordwind Damian Kulash
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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