"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.
Left once
Left twice
Left me three times, it's just not right
Well I'm gone this time, moving on this time
To find someone
While I'm still young
Do you think I'm singing
Cuz I got a knack for singing honey
I don't really have a good voice
Do you think I'm writing
Cuz everybody loves to write you know
I don't think I ever had a choice
Shit just happens sometimes
Put it down and it rhymes
And I can't turn away from the sound of it
Something's affecting me
Something nobody else can see
Not even the person who I'm singing about
The one I loved
The one I hated
The one I just appreciated
Can you feel me reaching towards you
In the song I wrote it for you
Cuz you're the one
Did you see me leaving
So I could get away from everyone
You know I never wished to be alone
Just waiting on a holiday
So I can see familiar faces
And have
Better conversations on the phone
But this is what I come home to
Thoughts that I might just lose you
And that just scared me more
Anything I've been scared of before
And it's affected me
In ways nobody else can see
Not even the girl
Who I'm singing about
You're the one I loved
The one I hated
The one I just appreciated
Can you feel me reaching towards you
in this song
I wrote it for you
Does it suck?
Is it great?
Do you think it's just okay?
Well I am not here to get paid
I just had something to say
To the one
Left once
Left twice
Left me three times, it's just not right
There's a part of me
That still believed it
That I was crazy
Cuz you must not be
The one I loved
The one I hated
The one I just appreciated
Can you feel me reaching toward ya
In this song I wrote it for
The one I loved
The one I hated
The one I should have appreciated
Can you feel me reaching toward ya
In this song I wrote it for ya
Does it suck?
Is it great?
Do you think it's just okay?
Well I am not here to get paid
I just had something to say
To the one
Left twice
Left me three times, it's just not right
Well I'm gone this time, moving on this time
To find someone
While I'm still young
Do you think I'm singing
Cuz I got a knack for singing honey
I don't really have a good voice
Do you think I'm writing
Cuz everybody loves to write you know
I don't think I ever had a choice
Shit just happens sometimes
Put it down and it rhymes
And I can't turn away from the sound of it
Something's affecting me
Something nobody else can see
Not even the person who I'm singing about
The one I loved
The one I hated
The one I just appreciated
Can you feel me reaching towards you
In the song I wrote it for you
Cuz you're the one
Did you see me leaving
So I could get away from everyone
You know I never wished to be alone
Just waiting on a holiday
So I can see familiar faces
And have
Better conversations on the phone
But this is what I come home to
Thoughts that I might just lose you
And that just scared me more
Anything I've been scared of before
And it's affected me
In ways nobody else can see
Not even the girl
Who I'm singing about
You're the one I loved
The one I hated
The one I just appreciated
Can you feel me reaching towards you
in this song
I wrote it for you
Does it suck?
Is it great?
Do you think it's just okay?
Well I am not here to get paid
I just had something to say
To the one
Left once
Left twice
Left me three times, it's just not right
There's a part of me
That still believed it
That I was crazy
Cuz you must not be
The one I loved
The one I hated
The one I just appreciated
Can you feel me reaching toward ya
In this song I wrote it for
The one I loved
The one I hated
The one I should have appreciated
Can you feel me reaching toward ya
In this song I wrote it for ya
Does it suck?
Is it great?
Do you think it's just okay?
Well I am not here to get paid
I just had something to say
To the one
Lyrics submitted by cucci67
The One Lyrics as written by Erik Alcock Rahman Khalid Abdul
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