"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.
If you just get it together and read my mind
Then sleeping will be easy.
And then I'll be there to acquiesce
I confess I'm in trouble
Another afternoon of increments,
And asking the wrong questions.
Then you get up and leave again,
Just as the evening, threatens to set.
Consider this now it's not too late,
I have watched you change
The colour of the trap before girl
I have learned to wait.
Most of the things that you say
I don't understand but I will sit and listen.
I nod along attentively,
But the truth is I can't concentrate.
Consider this now it's not too late
I have watched you change
The colour of the trap before girl
I have learned to wait.
Make no mistake
I have learned to wait
And you have learned that you can make me
I need something to sort me out
I need someone to come and shake me
And your exit calms me down
Before it infuriates me
Girl I'm in trouble
Wish you'd just get it together and read my mind
Then sleeping will be easy.
And then I'll be there to acquiesce
I confess I'm in trouble
Another afternoon of increments,
And asking the wrong questions.
Then you get up and leave again,
Just as the evening, threatens to set.
Consider this now it's not too late,
I have watched you change
The colour of the trap before girl
I have learned to wait.
Most of the things that you say
I don't understand but I will sit and listen.
I nod along attentively,
But the truth is I can't concentrate.
Consider this now it's not too late
I have watched you change
The colour of the trap before girl
I have learned to wait.
Make no mistake
I have learned to wait
And you have learned that you can make me
I need something to sort me out
I need someone to come and shake me
And your exit calms me down
Before it infuriates me
Girl I'm in trouble
Wish you'd just get it together and read my mind
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I don't understand why there's still no comments. The song is absolutely beautiful.
This song reminds me of this girl I like, really like and see often. However, she does not know I really like her. "I confess I'm in trouble" - she has a boyfriend, damn. "I have learned to wait." - yep, cause I may never tell her. "And your exit calms me down" - of course for a moment, but then I miss her. Finally: "I need someone to come and shake me"- yep, sometimes you just play alone.. <3 good song
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