"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.
It started with the sun in your eyes
The devil in your throat and in your thighs
A pocket full of notes
A head of lies is no good for you
Wrestle with the questions in your head
Fumble with the stranger in your bed
Condemn it to the great abyss instead
Whatever suits you
Cause in the dark we do our worst
Turn the lights out, turn the lights out
You'll be my last, I'll be your first
Turn the lights out, baby turn the lights out
Lay down slowly
Don't you fool me
Cause I don't wanna be along tonight
The best is yet to come
It finished with the stars in your eyes
Jesus on your breath and in your bite
Listen to the pleading and the cries
Make a chorus of you
Wrestle with the questions in your head
They interrupt your sleep and fill your bed
Fuck yourself into the record books instead
It's what you were born to do
Cause in the dark we do our worst
Turn the lights out, turn the lights out
You'll be my last, I'll be your first
Turn the lights out, baby turn the lights out
Lay down slowly
Don't you fool me
Cause I don't wanna be along tonight
The best is yet to come
Come now baby, don't be hasty
Cause I don't wanna be alone tonight
The best is yet to come
The promises, the promises we made
Another great, another great mistake
A little love, a little bit more hate
It's just about as much as I can take
Lay down slowly
Don't you fool me
Cause I don't wanna be along tonight
The best is yet to come
Come now baby, don't be hasty
Cause I don't wanna be alone tonight
The best is yet to come
The devil in your throat and in your thighs
A pocket full of notes
A head of lies is no good for you
Wrestle with the questions in your head
Fumble with the stranger in your bed
Condemn it to the great abyss instead
Whatever suits you
Cause in the dark we do our worst
Turn the lights out, turn the lights out
You'll be my last, I'll be your first
Turn the lights out, baby turn the lights out
Lay down slowly
Don't you fool me
Cause I don't wanna be along tonight
The best is yet to come
It finished with the stars in your eyes
Jesus on your breath and in your bite
Listen to the pleading and the cries
Make a chorus of you
Wrestle with the questions in your head
They interrupt your sleep and fill your bed
Fuck yourself into the record books instead
It's what you were born to do
Cause in the dark we do our worst
Turn the lights out, turn the lights out
You'll be my last, I'll be your first
Turn the lights out, baby turn the lights out
Lay down slowly
Don't you fool me
Cause I don't wanna be along tonight
The best is yet to come
Come now baby, don't be hasty
Cause I don't wanna be alone tonight
The best is yet to come
The promises, the promises we made
Another great, another great mistake
A little love, a little bit more hate
It's just about as much as I can take
Lay down slowly
Don't you fool me
Cause I don't wanna be along tonight
The best is yet to come
Come now baby, don't be hasty
Cause I don't wanna be alone tonight
The best is yet to come
Lyrics submitted by MichaelHutcheon
The Best Is Yet to Come Lyrics as written by Philip James Jenkins Joel Fisher
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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