"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'm alone again and i'm thinking about
what i shouldn't think about again
i'm trapped i'm dizzy
spinning and spiralling down
now i'm in love again
and it feels so good
it feels like nothing ever felt before
its a song i wrote it about you
i love you
see i told you i was good
but this is nothing like i thought it would be
i'm scared all the time
i'm afraid i'm gonna hurt you
i've gotta pay somehow
but it couldn't happen to me now
runaway with, my lover, runaway with me
i wanna let the world go
i wanna buy you a ring
maybe i'll make it myself
do you like rubies and diamonds and emeralds and gold and silver
i wanna build you a mansion
maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool
what a sorry song
what a stupid idea
i write the songs that make the
whole world think about absolutely nothing
i believe, i dont believe, i dont think believe
its strong enough, its bandwagon jargon
its hip, just do it, but dont do it half way
if you put down your loaded gun
put down your bow and arrow too
and i wanna be in 5th grade again
i wanna worry about poison ivy
i wanna worry about getting beat up after school
i wanna send you a note
i wanna buy you a ring
maybe i'll make it myself
do you like rubies and diamonds and emeralds and gold and silver
i wanna build you a mansion
maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool
and we wont have to think about dying
cuz dying wont exist anymore
and we'll be able to fly
and we wont let anyone use the pool
i wanna buy you a ring
maybe i'll make it myself
i wanna build you a mansion
maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool
what i shouldn't think about again
i'm trapped i'm dizzy
spinning and spiralling down
now i'm in love again
and it feels so good
it feels like nothing ever felt before
its a song i wrote it about you
i love you
see i told you i was good
but this is nothing like i thought it would be
i'm scared all the time
i'm afraid i'm gonna hurt you
i've gotta pay somehow
but it couldn't happen to me now
runaway with, my lover, runaway with me
i wanna let the world go
i wanna buy you a ring
maybe i'll make it myself
do you like rubies and diamonds and emeralds and gold and silver
i wanna build you a mansion
maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool
what a sorry song
what a stupid idea
i write the songs that make the
whole world think about absolutely nothing
i believe, i dont believe, i dont think believe
its strong enough, its bandwagon jargon
its hip, just do it, but dont do it half way
if you put down your loaded gun
put down your bow and arrow too
and i wanna be in 5th grade again
i wanna worry about poison ivy
i wanna worry about getting beat up after school
i wanna send you a note
i wanna buy you a ring
maybe i'll make it myself
do you like rubies and diamonds and emeralds and gold and silver
i wanna build you a mansion
maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool
and we wont have to think about dying
cuz dying wont exist anymore
and we'll be able to fly
and we wont let anyone use the pool
i wanna buy you a ring
maybe i'll make it myself
i wanna build you a mansion
maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool
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Buy You a Ring Lyrics as written by Craig S. Elkins
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