"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.
Just when you start to look away
And I don't know what I should say
I can't distinguish night from day
Then you come around
Just when things are lookin' down
And everybody's wearing frowns
The king went and misplaced his crown
But it'll come around
And I don't want to lose my faith in you
'Cause sometimes I don't have a clue
Of what I've done and what I should do
But I'll come around
These summer nights are hot and still
The days are long but time instills
A sense of hope, a coming thrill
And I know it will
Just when life seems like a lost cause
People spinning words into angry flaws
And I don't know who I am or who I was
Life comes around
And I don't want to lose my faith in you
Cause sometimes I don't have a clue
Of what I've done and what I should do
But I'll come around
Just when the whirlwind begins
Things twirling out of control, lost in the spin
You gotta take a step back, start over again
Find a way to win
I may be young, I may be old
I may be telling, I may be told
I may be wise, I may be bold
But I'll come around
And I don't want to lose my faith in you
Cause sometimes I don't have a clue
Of what I've done and what I should do
But I'll come around
You'll come around
Come around
And I don't know what I should say
I can't distinguish night from day
Then you come around
Just when things are lookin' down
And everybody's wearing frowns
The king went and misplaced his crown
But it'll come around
And I don't want to lose my faith in you
'Cause sometimes I don't have a clue
Of what I've done and what I should do
But I'll come around
These summer nights are hot and still
The days are long but time instills
A sense of hope, a coming thrill
And I know it will
Just when life seems like a lost cause
People spinning words into angry flaws
And I don't know who I am or who I was
Life comes around
And I don't want to lose my faith in you
Cause sometimes I don't have a clue
Of what I've done and what I should do
But I'll come around
Just when the whirlwind begins
Things twirling out of control, lost in the spin
You gotta take a step back, start over again
Find a way to win
I may be young, I may be old
I may be telling, I may be told
I may be wise, I may be bold
But I'll come around
And I don't want to lose my faith in you
Cause sometimes I don't have a clue
Of what I've done and what I should do
But I'll come around
You'll come around
Come around
Lyrics submitted by avataraera
Come Around Lyrics as written by Sarah Jarosz
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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