"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.
I've been tryin' real hard
To realize
But somethings take a long long
Long long time (a long time)
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Never saw my dark side
In, in your eyes
Back and forth bloody fingers
Paintin' up the sky
The sky
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
To realize
But somethings take a long long
Long long time (a long time)
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Never saw my dark side
In, in your eyes
Back and forth bloody fingers
Paintin' up the sky
The sky
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Lyrics submitted by awholelottabang, edited by vyachslav1
Aberdeen Lyrics as written by Donald Bradley Shultz Matthew Ray Shultz
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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It's the bass driven, Weezer-inspired song 'Aberdeen' that Shultz says works as a great indication of the band's more grown-up sound. "I had this personal revelation," he says." "I'd continue to see myself go back to the same thing that enslaved my life; over and over, putting my hands in the fire, even after I realized what I was doing to myself and the people around me."<br />