"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.
You don't know anything
You don't know anything
You don't know anything about me
Once it starts, it never stops
Discipline, it's all I'm not
Can't help myself, you listening?
Why can't I say just what I want?
You don't know anything
No, you don't know anything about me
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Chain me up, hold me down
Just let me go, there's always more
I want it all excluding you
Losing control, so construed
Oh, you don't know anything
No, you don't know anything about me
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
All that is done is left behind
Steady damage, cross the line
You had it all now I've got mine
I can't wait to see your face when I make it without you
Nothing seems to go your way, you'll never amount to
Get away, get away, get away from me
Get away (you'll never amount to)
Get away, get away, get away from me
Get away (you'll never amount to shit)
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
All that is done is left behind
Steady damage, cross the line
You had it all now I've got mine
You don't know anything
You don't know anything
You don't know anything about me
Once it starts, it never stops
Discipline, it's all I'm not
Can't help myself, you listening?
Why can't I say just what I want?
You don't know anything
No, you don't know anything about me
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Chain me up, hold me down
Just let me go, there's always more
I want it all excluding you
Losing control, so construed
Oh, you don't know anything
No, you don't know anything about me
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
All that is done is left behind
Steady damage, cross the line
You had it all now I've got mine
I can't wait to see your face when I make it without you
Nothing seems to go your way, you'll never amount to
Get away, get away, get away from me
Get away (you'll never amount to)
Get away, get away, get away from me
Get away (you'll never amount to shit)
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
What's become clearly defined
Steady damage, cross the line
All that is done is left behind
Steady damage, cross the line
You had it all now I've got mine
You don't know anything
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This song is beast!!
@Caasi i agree but it has a deeper meaning than what it shows in the lyrics and music video
@Caasi i agree but it has a deeper meaning than what it shows in the lyrics and music video