"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.
When we first met, the well was dry
A long dark winter passed us by
With shooting starts and hopeful hearts
Our worlds collide
So we rushed to fill each other in
Quick to feed our hungry hopes
A feast of our affections, we were born anew
Oh, whoa
With open eyes, we tried to make it work
And for a while the magic took
But cracks to begin to show as soon as things got hard
Like paper walls, our feelings tore
We threw our backs against the door
Unwilling to bear witness to the other side
Oh, the games we play to hide
The tangled dread inside
The fear that we are going nowhere fast
We point the finger out, the anger gets so loud
It drowns out all the sorrow
At least until tomorrow, what then?
I took a good hard look at how I loved
Years I squandered, falling fast
For any boy who'd have me was so insecure
Lie awake alone at night
Full of loathing, compromised
And wondering, how the hell did I end up like this?
Oh, the tears of rage I cried
When nowhere could I find
An answer that made any kind of sense to me
I point the finger out, the anger gets so loud
It drowns out all the sorrow
At least until tomorrow
Oh, I wanna learn, I wanna know
Will our history crush us or can we let it go?
I'm not the girl I was but what have I become?
I'm not so willing anymore to bend
Still pleasing and conceding
But I'm not gonna lose myself again
A long dark winter passed us by
With shooting starts and hopeful hearts
Our worlds collide
So we rushed to fill each other in
Quick to feed our hungry hopes
A feast of our affections, we were born anew
Oh, whoa
With open eyes, we tried to make it work
And for a while the magic took
But cracks to begin to show as soon as things got hard
Like paper walls, our feelings tore
We threw our backs against the door
Unwilling to bear witness to the other side
Oh, the games we play to hide
The tangled dread inside
The fear that we are going nowhere fast
We point the finger out, the anger gets so loud
It drowns out all the sorrow
At least until tomorrow, what then?
I took a good hard look at how I loved
Years I squandered, falling fast
For any boy who'd have me was so insecure
Lie awake alone at night
Full of loathing, compromised
And wondering, how the hell did I end up like this?
Oh, the tears of rage I cried
When nowhere could I find
An answer that made any kind of sense to me
I point the finger out, the anger gets so loud
It drowns out all the sorrow
At least until tomorrow
Oh, I wanna learn, I wanna know
Will our history crush us or can we let it go?
I'm not the girl I was but what have I become?
I'm not so willing anymore to bend
Still pleasing and conceding
But I'm not gonna lose myself again
Lyrics submitted by cyberblade_256
Awakenings Lyrics as written by Sarah Mclachlan
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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