"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.
We’re going up to the twelfth story going down on Friday night
I can’t believe what we go through every time we start to get this right
Fall fast and impact slowly we’ll never see another Saturday night
It seems we’ve done all we could to try to bring you what we burn inside
It’s twelve past the fall and we survived today
And through the pain of it all you never once turned your backs away
When contemplating the ending of our times our days were lost
And we played through it all
The passion breathes through our soul fights to the death unites through chords
can’t forget singing along live times of what we wanna know
We’re setting up, we’re going on shortly
Blasting music on a Friday night
I lose myself in every song that we go through
I’m feeling stronger as the time goes by
Songs are fast and impact slowly
We’re rocking through another Saturday night
We owe the words of the songs to the ones that
Spend their weekend singing every line
Every time we feel like giving up you’ll always be right here
Through all our fears you’ll find a way
You'll find a way where we belong live for ourselves live through our song
When we need you you’ll be sincere we'll find you here thats why we're here
We'll find you here where we belong live for ourselves live through our song
When the view from the top seemed like a never ending dream of endless pain
We'll find a place where we belong live for ourselves live through our song
I turned and heard the sounds of the chords singing me awake
I can’t believe what we go through every time we start to get this right
Fall fast and impact slowly we’ll never see another Saturday night
It seems we’ve done all we could to try to bring you what we burn inside
It’s twelve past the fall and we survived today
And through the pain of it all you never once turned your backs away
When contemplating the ending of our times our days were lost
And we played through it all
The passion breathes through our soul fights to the death unites through chords
can’t forget singing along live times of what we wanna know
We’re setting up, we’re going on shortly
Blasting music on a Friday night
I lose myself in every song that we go through
I’m feeling stronger as the time goes by
Songs are fast and impact slowly
We’re rocking through another Saturday night
We owe the words of the songs to the ones that
Spend their weekend singing every line
Every time we feel like giving up you’ll always be right here
Through all our fears you’ll find a way
You'll find a way where we belong live for ourselves live through our song
When we need you you’ll be sincere we'll find you here thats why we're here
We'll find you here where we belong live for ourselves live through our song
When the view from the top seemed like a never ending dream of endless pain
We'll find a place where we belong live for ourselves live through our song
I turned and heard the sounds of the chords singing me awake
Lyrics submitted by SpaceBound1613
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