"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.
There's a ghost inside my attic stealing all the air
Uninvited, you're just passing here and everywhere
Thoughts of you in high rotation suffocating me
Like a thief in my hotel room breaking in and entering
We checked out of this place, been vacant so long
Why won't the past just leave me alone?
Get out of my head!
There's just no more room
How could you forget, there's no me and you?
Won't give anymore nothing's unsaid
There's no me and you, how could you forget?
Feeding anger and my addiction rubbing all my energy
Invade my space with this attraction sucking all the air I breathe
I gave into love and cheated by faith
I gave you my anger, my pain, and my hate
'Cause you're my distraction with your apathy
Now I won't give you my anything.
Get out of my head, there's just no more room.
How could you forget, there's no me and you?
Won't give anymore, nothing's unsaid.
There's no me and you
How could you forget, how could you forget?
Time is yours now and I won't bleed
I won't tempt you with what you need
'Cause I don't owe you anything
Wash it out!
Mmmm,
Mmmm.
Get out of my head!
There's just no more room
How could you forget, there's no me and you?
Won't give anymore nothing's unsaid
There's no me and you, how could you forget?
So get out of my head!
There's just no more room
How could you forget, there's no me and you?
Won't give anymore nothing's unsaid
There's no me and you, how could you forget?
How could you forget, how could you forget?
Uninvited, you're just passing here and everywhere
Thoughts of you in high rotation suffocating me
Like a thief in my hotel room breaking in and entering
We checked out of this place, been vacant so long
Why won't the past just leave me alone?
Get out of my head!
There's just no more room
How could you forget, there's no me and you?
Won't give anymore nothing's unsaid
There's no me and you, how could you forget?
Feeding anger and my addiction rubbing all my energy
Invade my space with this attraction sucking all the air I breathe
I gave into love and cheated by faith
I gave you my anger, my pain, and my hate
'Cause you're my distraction with your apathy
Now I won't give you my anything.
Get out of my head, there's just no more room.
How could you forget, there's no me and you?
Won't give anymore, nothing's unsaid.
There's no me and you
How could you forget, how could you forget?
Time is yours now and I won't bleed
I won't tempt you with what you need
'Cause I don't owe you anything
Wash it out!
Mmmm,
Mmmm.
Get out of my head!
There's just no more room
How could you forget, there's no me and you?
Won't give anymore nothing's unsaid
There's no me and you, how could you forget?
So get out of my head!
There's just no more room
How could you forget, there's no me and you?
Won't give anymore nothing's unsaid
There's no me and you, how could you forget?
How could you forget, how could you forget?
Lyrics submitted by PinkInk
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