"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.
I woke up, you were gone again
You said, "Nothing's really fair
Till you realize we've all lost our minds
It's all worthless, I'm giving up the fight"
Whatever it is, you got it
Please don't take me for granted
The sky fell on my room again
I opened up my window and let it in
It's not easy being someone I could love
Sometimes you get so lonely
It just makes sense to give up
I hate days like this
Yeah, I hate days like this
You know, I hate days like this
When everyone I know hates themself
Or wants to United States of Whatever,
Take your time, failure's free
It's really not that bad,
You're just pissed off cause it's never easy
We're all stars in a race for the endless nothing
It was summer, times were good
Our hair was long, the music loud,
When you told me you'd live forever
That lie was all I had, now you wanna take it back
It's cool if you take it back
I won't tell a soul you ran
I'm better off being the only one
To know what the ending is
Tell Elliott I'm sorry,
If heaven's real I hope you're happy
I can't believe I'm not the one,
I could have sworn I was
You said, "Nothing's really fair
Till you realize we've all lost our minds
It's all worthless, I'm giving up the fight"
Whatever it is, you got it
Please don't take me for granted
The sky fell on my room again
I opened up my window and let it in
It's not easy being someone I could love
Sometimes you get so lonely
It just makes sense to give up
I hate days like this
Yeah, I hate days like this
You know, I hate days like this
When everyone I know hates themself
Or wants to United States of Whatever,
Take your time, failure's free
It's really not that bad,
You're just pissed off cause it's never easy
We're all stars in a race for the endless nothing
It was summer, times were good
Our hair was long, the music loud,
When you told me you'd live forever
That lie was all I had, now you wanna take it back
It's cool if you take it back
I won't tell a soul you ran
I'm better off being the only one
To know what the ending is
Tell Elliott I'm sorry,
If heaven's real I hope you're happy
I can't believe I'm not the one,
I could have sworn I was
Lyrics submitted by AshleyRose
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