"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.
Never had you run so far but you really gotta get away
You know it in the nighttime running to it
Caught a rising star but then you let it drop into
The ocean now the water's running through it
Now you've gone so far you really had to get away you
Knew it in your lifetime running to it
Acting like you've come so far the bed you made yourself
And this house and me are all falling apart
Never thought you'd go so far but now you're really
Gone and it's been so long I never really think about it
Yeah you made a beating heart whatever now that amber
Light has faded and it's yours to commit it
Act like it stops and starts a gesture here and there
For me is one thing but I felt it every time you blew it
Now you've gone too far your urge to run away is back and we all knew
You know it in the nighttime running to it
Caught a rising star but then you let it drop into
The ocean now the water's running through it
Now you've gone so far you really had to get away you
Knew it in your lifetime running to it
Acting like you've come so far the bed you made yourself
And this house and me are all falling apart
Never thought you'd go so far but now you're really
Gone and it's been so long I never really think about it
Yeah you made a beating heart whatever now that amber
Light has faded and it's yours to commit it
Act like it stops and starts a gesture here and there
For me is one thing but I felt it every time you blew it
Now you've gone too far your urge to run away is back and we all knew
Lyrics submitted by Cauchemardesque, edited by yuck30, raVen2tt, alex115411
Doused Lyrics as written by Zachary Cole Smith
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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