"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.
Everybody wants to feel better
When the pain just won't go away
But I can feel the temperature rising
There's a new day on the horizon
Can't you see I love you too much?
Got a heart that won't let go
I can feel a change in the weather
Like the still before the storm
'Cause I can feel the temperature rising
There's a new day on the horizon
Can't you see I love you too much?
There's a tear inside my soul
And I don't want to let you go
'Cause it's not the same without you
Here with me
Don't let go
(Memories are haunting me)
Don't let go
(Of the days we used to be)
Don't let go
(Nothing ever stays the same)
Don't let me go
Will we ever find the right answers?
Is there a reason to believe?
'Cause I can feel the temperature rising
Don't let go
(Memories are haunting me)
Don't let go
(Of the days we used to be)
Don't let go
(Nothing ever stays the same)
Don't let me go
I can feel the temperature rise, rising up again
I wanna see the love in your eyes
Don't let it ever end
When the pain just won't go away
But I can feel the temperature rising
There's a new day on the horizon
Can't you see I love you too much?
Got a heart that won't let go
I can feel a change in the weather
Like the still before the storm
'Cause I can feel the temperature rising
There's a new day on the horizon
Can't you see I love you too much?
There's a tear inside my soul
And I don't want to let you go
'Cause it's not the same without you
Here with me
Don't let go
(Memories are haunting me)
Don't let go
(Of the days we used to be)
Don't let go
(Nothing ever stays the same)
Don't let me go
Will we ever find the right answers?
Is there a reason to believe?
'Cause I can feel the temperature rising
Don't let go
(Memories are haunting me)
Don't let go
(Of the days we used to be)
Don't let go
(Nothing ever stays the same)
Don't let me go
I can feel the temperature rise, rising up again
I wanna see the love in your eyes
Don't let it ever end
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Temperature Rising Lyrics as written by Andrew John Klippel Alan M. Glass
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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