"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.
There will be tears
I've no doubt
There may be smiles
But a few
And when those tears
Have run out
You will be numb and blue
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I still dream dream dream
I still dream
My grandaddy was a player
Pretty boy in a pair of gators
See I met him later on
Think it was 1991
The only dad I'd ever know
But pretty soon he'd be gone too
Hide my face hide my face
Can't let em see me crying
'Cause these boys didn't have no fathers neither
And they weren't crying
My friend said it wasn't so bad
You can't miss what you ain't had
Well I can
I'm sad and there will be tears
I've no doubt
There may be smiles
But a few
And when those tears
Have run out
You will be numb
And blue
I can't be there
That's all you had to say to me was
You couldn't be there
Why couldn't you say to me
You won't be there
You could've warned me
You wouldn't be here
Right here
You wouldn't be here for me
I've no doubt
There may be smiles
But a few
And when those tears
Have run out
You will be numb and blue
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I can't be there with you
But I can dream
I still dream dream dream
I still dream
My grandaddy was a player
Pretty boy in a pair of gators
See I met him later on
Think it was 1991
The only dad I'd ever know
But pretty soon he'd be gone too
Hide my face hide my face
Can't let em see me crying
'Cause these boys didn't have no fathers neither
And they weren't crying
My friend said it wasn't so bad
You can't miss what you ain't had
Well I can
I'm sad and there will be tears
I've no doubt
There may be smiles
But a few
And when those tears
Have run out
You will be numb
And blue
I can't be there
That's all you had to say to me was
You couldn't be there
Why couldn't you say to me
You won't be there
You could've warned me
You wouldn't be here
Right here
You wouldn't be here for me
Lyrics submitted by thatoneguy82101
There Will Be Tears Lyrics as written by Christopher Edwin Breaux
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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