"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.
You said its over
I said "that's okay
I wasn't in to you anyway"
I told you "lately
You irritate me your laugh is too loud
You're the last girl I'd look at
If you were in a crowd"
Could you tell?
I was lying and hiding the truth away
And what I really wanted to say
Is you are incredible you are amazing
You blow my mind one of a kind
I'm having a meltdown
You are incredible you are amazing
But sometimes telling the truth
Is easier said than done,
"don't leave baby"
Now that's what I meant to say
"My worlds not ending I'll be just fine"
That's what my mouth said
But not what I felt inside
I told you "baby,
Your not the answer to all of my prayers
'cause I like my girlfriends in short skirts with longer hair"
Could you tell?
I was lying and hiding the truth away
And what I really wanted to say
Well I said I didn't care about what you felt about me
Couldn't care less about what I said or done
I didn't mean it its not what I meant to say
You know the truth is that I care
About what you think about me
Maybe too much, I've been puttin' on a front
I didn't mean it and what I meant to say
Is you are incredible you are amazing
You blow my mind one of a kind
I'm having a meltdown
You are incredible you are amazing
But sometimes telling the truth
Is easier said than done, yeah yeah
Telling the truth is easier said than done.
Can't you see
Telling the truth is easier said than done.
"Don't leave baby" now that's what I meant to say
I said "that's okay
I wasn't in to you anyway"
I told you "lately
You irritate me your laugh is too loud
You're the last girl I'd look at
If you were in a crowd"
Could you tell?
I was lying and hiding the truth away
And what I really wanted to say
Is you are incredible you are amazing
You blow my mind one of a kind
I'm having a meltdown
You are incredible you are amazing
But sometimes telling the truth
Is easier said than done,
"don't leave baby"
Now that's what I meant to say
"My worlds not ending I'll be just fine"
That's what my mouth said
But not what I felt inside
I told you "baby,
Your not the answer to all of my prayers
'cause I like my girlfriends in short skirts with longer hair"
Could you tell?
I was lying and hiding the truth away
And what I really wanted to say
Well I said I didn't care about what you felt about me
Couldn't care less about what I said or done
I didn't mean it its not what I meant to say
You know the truth is that I care
About what you think about me
Maybe too much, I've been puttin' on a front
I didn't mean it and what I meant to say
Is you are incredible you are amazing
You blow my mind one of a kind
I'm having a meltdown
You are incredible you are amazing
But sometimes telling the truth
Is easier said than done, yeah yeah
Telling the truth is easier said than done.
Can't you see
Telling the truth is easier said than done.
"Don't leave baby" now that's what I meant to say
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