"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.
My honey knows the best sleeping spots
While I get lost at the roundabout
And I get lost at the smell of those horses
Who do people tell you that you look like?
Someone from my past and actor who I don't like
I lay in bed and dreamt I never said that
I lay in bed and tempt myself with my screen, my screen, my screen
Next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
He shaved off his beard and saw The Girl Who Played With Fire
Well being a mannequin was all I could manage
Seeing the opposite side was all that I could wrangle that day
Scenes From Bensonhurst against the wall
He's gonna bawl when he sees this
His mom went blind with a third baby
Oh shit, that's crazy
I lay in bed and dreamt I never said that
I lay in bed and tempt myself with my screen, my screen, my screen
Next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
He gambled away his savings with just his shirt
Money for clothes/cigarettes, and he sold the place in SF
He believes in numbers or nothing at all
And how could he be so impressed with such a little fall?
And his intuition told him that they'd be married someday
He lies in bed and tempts himself with his screen, his screen, his screen
I lay in bed and dreamt I never said that
I lay in bed and tempt myself with my screen, my screen, my screen
Next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
Next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
Ooh next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
While I get lost at the roundabout
And I get lost at the smell of those horses
Who do people tell you that you look like?
Someone from my past and actor who I don't like
I lay in bed and dreamt I never said that
I lay in bed and tempt myself with my screen, my screen, my screen
Next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
He shaved off his beard and saw The Girl Who Played With Fire
Well being a mannequin was all I could manage
Seeing the opposite side was all that I could wrangle that day
Scenes From Bensonhurst against the wall
He's gonna bawl when he sees this
His mom went blind with a third baby
Oh shit, that's crazy
I lay in bed and dreamt I never said that
I lay in bed and tempt myself with my screen, my screen, my screen
Next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
He gambled away his savings with just his shirt
Money for clothes/cigarettes, and he sold the place in SF
He believes in numbers or nothing at all
And how could he be so impressed with such a little fall?
And his intuition told him that they'd be married someday
He lies in bed and tempts himself with his screen, his screen, his screen
I lay in bed and dreamt I never said that
I lay in bed and tempt myself with my screen, my screen, my screen
Next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
Next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
Ooh next next next, now it's all of them in my inbox
Lyrics submitted by smallwonderrobot
Scenes from Bensonhurst Lyrics as written by Eleanor Friedberger
Lyrics © A SIDE MUSIC LLC
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