"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.
So go ahead and turn away
See where it gets you in the long run.
I'm trying my hardest to grow
When its embedded in your bones
It grows with.
Are we all punished
For sins of fathers.
It seems so pointless
To have an existence
In a world misused.
It seems so pointless
To have an opinion
When yours is never true.
Just try to imagine
A life without love
But death has its hold on us.
So think upon beauty
Its like painting a picture
When everything's shaded in grey
And even when we've been face to face
We have never seen eye to eye
So take a good look in mine
Its a window to a soul that knows not why.
You cant continue this direction
It's detours and dead ends.
Don't join this kind of company
Unless your joining to fight.
Fight for your life.
Losing the fight
Is getting knocked down
And staying there.
Losing the fight
Is getting knocked down
And staying there.
So why do I turn away
Its getting me nowhere.
Nowhere in the long run
Just try to imagine
A life without love
But death has its hold on us.
So think upon beauty
Its like painting a picture
When everything's shaded in grey
And even when we've been face to face
We have never seen eye to eye
So take a good look in mine
Its a window to a soul that knows not why.
The world can't make you faithless
When faith is first.
Where is your faith?
See where it gets you in the long run.
I'm trying my hardest to grow
When its embedded in your bones
It grows with.
Are we all punished
For sins of fathers.
It seems so pointless
To have an existence
In a world misused.
It seems so pointless
To have an opinion
When yours is never true.
Just try to imagine
A life without love
But death has its hold on us.
So think upon beauty
Its like painting a picture
When everything's shaded in grey
And even when we've been face to face
We have never seen eye to eye
So take a good look in mine
Its a window to a soul that knows not why.
You cant continue this direction
It's detours and dead ends.
Don't join this kind of company
Unless your joining to fight.
Fight for your life.
Losing the fight
Is getting knocked down
And staying there.
Losing the fight
Is getting knocked down
And staying there.
So why do I turn away
Its getting me nowhere.
Nowhere in the long run
Just try to imagine
A life without love
But death has its hold on us.
So think upon beauty
Its like painting a picture
When everything's shaded in grey
And even when we've been face to face
We have never seen eye to eye
So take a good look in mine
Its a window to a soul that knows not why.
The world can't make you faithless
When faith is first.
Where is your faith?
Lyrics submitted by RIPsteggy
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