"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.
The sun goes down
Now you're coming apart, I keep falling apart
And the sun comes up
Now I don't know where to start, I keep falling apart
And the whole damn world
Keeps on breaking my heart, I don't know where to start
And I can't have my head in circles
Round and round and round in circles, yeah
I'm at the mercy of a wasted love
And all the things that pass me by
And everything I used to be
Is coming back to torture me
I don't know
If I'll ever bounce back, if I'll ever get it back
Go
Down the end of this road and it never takes me home
I can't have my head in circles
Round and round and round in circles, yeah
I'm at the mercy of a wasted love
And all the things that pass me by
And everything I used to be
Is coming back to torture me
The promises in all my dreams
I'm broken now, it's all I see
Don't you lie to me
I know that I'm not free
Don't you lie to me
I know that I'm not free
I'm at the mercy of a wasted love
And all the things that pass me by
And everything I used to be
Is coming back to torture me
My eyes are blind and all I see
As all the world laughs at me
A darkened light cries out for me
I wish everyone would let me be
The sun goes down
I keep coming apart, I keep falling apart
Now you're coming apart, I keep falling apart
And the sun comes up
Now I don't know where to start, I keep falling apart
And the whole damn world
Keeps on breaking my heart, I don't know where to start
And I can't have my head in circles
Round and round and round in circles, yeah
I'm at the mercy of a wasted love
And all the things that pass me by
And everything I used to be
Is coming back to torture me
I don't know
If I'll ever bounce back, if I'll ever get it back
Go
Down the end of this road and it never takes me home
I can't have my head in circles
Round and round and round in circles, yeah
I'm at the mercy of a wasted love
And all the things that pass me by
And everything I used to be
Is coming back to torture me
The promises in all my dreams
I'm broken now, it's all I see
Don't you lie to me
I know that I'm not free
Don't you lie to me
I know that I'm not free
I'm at the mercy of a wasted love
And all the things that pass me by
And everything I used to be
Is coming back to torture me
My eyes are blind and all I see
As all the world laughs at me
A darkened light cries out for me
I wish everyone would let me be
The sun goes down
I keep coming apart, I keep falling apart
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