"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.
It ended how it ended,
I'm not really trippin',
I won't pay attention
To the lies you had given,
Wasn't really end it the way that it should have been
And I guess you know, I so moved on again took a chance to try
But my heart is still beating for love
Save my heart, my heart just wouldn't let me to walk away, no
And I knew, I knew if you didn't leave I would have stayed
Every day, I couldn't keep pretending everything was OK
No more hurt, don't wish no hurt the way that you hurt me
There ain't no easy way to let it slip away
But it was a bittersweet goodbye
'Cause honestly baby everything was wrong
But you were to caught up to ever notice on your own
I need you now, love me
So that I could live
I did things to make you change your mind
About me
We were no good for each other
Just thinking how I change things
'Cause me leaving you was
So impossible
It is what it is
What it's not meant to be
I'm not meant for you and you're not meant for me, no
Ain't no need for us to deny
What we had is so gone
'Cause my heart is still beating for love
Save my heart, see my heart just wouldn't let me to walk away
And I knew, 'cause I knew if you didn't leave I would have stayed
Every day, I couldn't keep pretending everything was ok
No more hurt, still don't wish no hurt the way that you hurt me
There ain't no easy way to watch him slip away, girl
'Cause it's like the bittersweet, I know
But honestly, look at me, see it's all right,
You just don't be too cut up to take the notice on your own
I need you now, love me
So that I could live
I did things to make you change your mind
About me
We were no good for each other
Just thinking how I change things
'Cause me leaving you was
So impossible
But I wouldn't let it, let it impossible,
Hold me, baby, moving, owning my life, oh
Though it was so hard for me
To trust if you're now
It ended how it ended,
I'm not really trippin',
I won't pay attention
But my heart is still beating
So, there is no way that could ever be us again
I gave you, I gave you, I gave you way too much of me
It's time I see that it wasn't meant for me
It's so impossible, yeah
I'm not really trippin',
I won't pay attention
To the lies you had given,
Wasn't really end it the way that it should have been
And I guess you know, I so moved on again took a chance to try
But my heart is still beating for love
Save my heart, my heart just wouldn't let me to walk away, no
And I knew, I knew if you didn't leave I would have stayed
Every day, I couldn't keep pretending everything was OK
No more hurt, don't wish no hurt the way that you hurt me
There ain't no easy way to let it slip away
But it was a bittersweet goodbye
'Cause honestly baby everything was wrong
But you were to caught up to ever notice on your own
I need you now, love me
So that I could live
I did things to make you change your mind
About me
We were no good for each other
Just thinking how I change things
'Cause me leaving you was
So impossible
It is what it is
What it's not meant to be
I'm not meant for you and you're not meant for me, no
Ain't no need for us to deny
What we had is so gone
'Cause my heart is still beating for love
Save my heart, see my heart just wouldn't let me to walk away
And I knew, 'cause I knew if you didn't leave I would have stayed
Every day, I couldn't keep pretending everything was ok
No more hurt, still don't wish no hurt the way that you hurt me
There ain't no easy way to watch him slip away, girl
'Cause it's like the bittersweet, I know
But honestly, look at me, see it's all right,
You just don't be too cut up to take the notice on your own
I need you now, love me
So that I could live
I did things to make you change your mind
About me
We were no good for each other
Just thinking how I change things
'Cause me leaving you was
So impossible
But I wouldn't let it, let it impossible,
Hold me, baby, moving, owning my life, oh
Though it was so hard for me
To trust if you're now
It ended how it ended,
I'm not really trippin',
I won't pay attention
But my heart is still beating
So, there is no way that could ever be us again
I gave you, I gave you, I gave you way too much of me
It's time I see that it wasn't meant for me
It's so impossible, yeah
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So Impossible Lyrics as written by Keyshia Cole Carla Carter
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