"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 thought I could show you the way
I thought I could change you today
An innocent face
Deceived me today
Reminded me that our lives can't change
In the end
So leave me today
Pull me down
Throw me out in the end
Pull me down
Scream it out in the end
So take me
Into
The square coffin
Where you hide your feelings
Break me
Into
A shattered memory
Of what you're leaving
I thought I could show you the way
I thought I could change you today
Now I'm stuck here
Hands on my face
A simple lie told you to erase
What we had
Now throw it away
Pull me down
Throw me out in the end
Pull me down
Scream it out in the end
So take me
Into
The square coffin
Where you hide your feelings
Break me
Into
A shattered memory
Of what you're leaving
I thought I could change you today
An innocent face
Deceived me today
Reminded me that our lives can't change
In the end
So leave me today
Pull me down
Throw me out in the end
Pull me down
Scream it out in the end
So take me
Into
The square coffin
Where you hide your feelings
Break me
Into
A shattered memory
Of what you're leaving
I thought I could show you the way
I thought I could change you today
Now I'm stuck here
Hands on my face
A simple lie told you to erase
What we had
Now throw it away
Pull me down
Throw me out in the end
Pull me down
Scream it out in the end
So take me
Into
The square coffin
Where you hide your feelings
Break me
Into
A shattered memory
Of what you're leaving
Lyrics submitted by khrome
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