"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.
Let's call this ?everything? what is seems
A violent distortion of ALL my dreams
Just to spite the cold that seems to feed
And still it burns inside of me
When everything and nothing become the same
And everyone's at fault but no one's to blame
Question is- will you remain the same?
Or will you half step you life away?
Now I'm lost in this without all the rest- it Seems so close but so far away
Fall in line or be what's forgotten
Hurts as much to say
NEVER NOTHING
And though I try
So why do you give this away?
So you will know
This love I call a lie
Then you will say
So why do you give this away?
So you will know this love I call a lie
Defining Definitions of what ?should? be
One part honest and two parts mean
Believing nothing - seeing is all I need
Judging for myself what will come for me
When all of it is here it moves so slow
But I wonder will I know
Planting all the seeds of doubt that grow
when these fields of hate take hold
Fall in line or be what's forgotten
Now I'm lost in this without all the rest- it Seems so close but so far away
Hurts as much to say
NEVER NOTHING
so why do you give this away?
And though I try
So you will know
This love I call a lie
Then you will say
So why do you give this away?
But with all things involving the dream
So you will know this love I call a lie
The push/ pull is not what it seems
The love/ hate of what it all means
Has taken the life out of me
And I know that it's so hard to find
And then even harder to hide
But it's yours to decide?
I'm lost in this without all the rest- it Seems so close but so far away
Fall in line or be what's forgotten
Hurts as much to say
NEVER NOTHING
And though I try
So why do you give this away?
So you will know
Then you will say
This love I call a lie
So you will know this love I call a lie
So why do you give this away?
And though I try
So you will know/
So why do you give this away?
This love I call a lie
Then you will say
So you will know this love I call a lieso why do you give this away?
A violent distortion of ALL my dreams
Just to spite the cold that seems to feed
And still it burns inside of me
When everything and nothing become the same
And everyone's at fault but no one's to blame
Question is- will you remain the same?
Or will you half step you life away?
Now I'm lost in this without all the rest- it Seems so close but so far away
Fall in line or be what's forgotten
Hurts as much to say
NEVER NOTHING
And though I try
So why do you give this away?
So you will know
This love I call a lie
Then you will say
So why do you give this away?
So you will know this love I call a lie
Defining Definitions of what ?should? be
One part honest and two parts mean
Believing nothing - seeing is all I need
Judging for myself what will come for me
When all of it is here it moves so slow
But I wonder will I know
Planting all the seeds of doubt that grow
when these fields of hate take hold
Fall in line or be what's forgotten
Now I'm lost in this without all the rest- it Seems so close but so far away
Hurts as much to say
NEVER NOTHING
so why do you give this away?
And though I try
So you will know
This love I call a lie
Then you will say
So why do you give this away?
But with all things involving the dream
So you will know this love I call a lie
The push/ pull is not what it seems
The love/ hate of what it all means
Has taken the life out of me
And I know that it's so hard to find
And then even harder to hide
But it's yours to decide?
I'm lost in this without all the rest- it Seems so close but so far away
Fall in line or be what's forgotten
Hurts as much to say
NEVER NOTHING
And though I try
So why do you give this away?
So you will know
Then you will say
This love I call a lie
So you will know this love I call a lie
So why do you give this away?
And though I try
So you will know/
So why do you give this away?
This love I call a lie
Then you will say
So you will know this love I call a lieso why do you give this away?
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With Deepest Regrets... Lyrics as written by Jr. Walter E. Lewis
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