"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.
Words spoken, my heart open
No I never had butterflies like that
We danced in the moon glow
Your hands moved slow
You kissed me on the lips
Swore I wouldn't look back
It was just like we were flying
In another time
I felt the world was ours for the taking
When I fell into your eyes
Never a doubt we would make it if we tried
You promised you'd never break my heart
Never leave me in the dark
Said your love would be for all time
But that was back when you were mine
When you were
Here, with me, I thought we'd be
Stronger than the past
Better than the ones before
How did I fool myself in thinking
We had it all
I felt the world was ours for the taking
When I fell into your eyes
Never a doubt we would make it if we tried
You promised you'd never break my heart
Never leave me in the dark
Said your love would be for all time
But that was back when you were mine
When you were
What if this was it baby
What if this was our time
Maybe we're long past saving
I'm gonna give you one try
You better think twice
Before you leave her behind
And what if the world was ours for the taking
When I fell into your eyes
Never a doubt we would make it if we tried
You promised you'd never break my heart
Never leave me in the dark
Said your love would be for all time
But that was back when you were mine
When we were in love, do you remember the time
When you were mine
Ooh
(That was back when you were mine)
What if this was it baby
What if this was our time
(Back when we were in love)
Back when you were mine
(That was back when you were mine)
Back when we were in love, in love
You said you'd really
You'd said it'd last forever
I never actually really meant it baby
Did you baby
No I never had butterflies like that
We danced in the moon glow
Your hands moved slow
You kissed me on the lips
Swore I wouldn't look back
It was just like we were flying
In another time
I felt the world was ours for the taking
When I fell into your eyes
Never a doubt we would make it if we tried
You promised you'd never break my heart
Never leave me in the dark
Said your love would be for all time
But that was back when you were mine
When you were
Here, with me, I thought we'd be
Stronger than the past
Better than the ones before
How did I fool myself in thinking
We had it all
I felt the world was ours for the taking
When I fell into your eyes
Never a doubt we would make it if we tried
You promised you'd never break my heart
Never leave me in the dark
Said your love would be for all time
But that was back when you were mine
When you were
What if this was it baby
What if this was our time
Maybe we're long past saving
I'm gonna give you one try
You better think twice
Before you leave her behind
And what if the world was ours for the taking
When I fell into your eyes
Never a doubt we would make it if we tried
You promised you'd never break my heart
Never leave me in the dark
Said your love would be for all time
But that was back when you were mine
When we were in love, do you remember the time
When you were mine
Ooh
(That was back when you were mine)
What if this was it baby
What if this was our time
(Back when we were in love)
Back when you were mine
(That was back when you were mine)
Back when we were in love, in love
You said you'd really
You'd said it'd last forever
I never actually really meant it baby
Did you baby
Lyrics submitted by AshleyRose
When You Were Mine Lyrics as written by Hillary Scott Michael James Ryan Busbee
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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